Talk:Jabo

Proposal to Change this Page from Redirection to Disambiguation
There are at least three unrelated senses of the term Jabo which could be sought under this title:
 * 1) An abbreviation for the German term Jagdbomber (literally pursuit bomber), which is currently redirected by this article to Ground attack aircraft.
 * 2) An ethnicity and language in West Africa which figures significantly in linguistic and ethnological literature, as well as playing a keyrole in the language development strategies proposed for this area.
 * 3) A nickname favored by jazz musicians, notably Cladys "Jab(b)o" Smith (1908-1991) and John "Jabo" Starkes (1938- ), and others with no apparent relationship to that music genre. (This nickname probably also has African roots, but no relationship to the aforementioned ethnicity is assumed.)  It also occurs as a surname.

I would like to see this page changed from being a silent redirection to the aircraft sense to being a disambiguation page. The nickname would be the hardest to write an article about, even though it is perhaps the most common sense.


 * A Google search for "Jabo aircraft -africa -jazz" produced 17,200 hits.
 * A Google search for "Jabo africa -aircraft -jazz" produced 27,700 hits.
 * A Google search for "Jabo jazz -africa -aircraft" produced 28,800 hits.
 * A Google search for "Jabbo jazz -africa -aircraft" produced 30,800 hits.

Perhaps then I may write an article about the African language.

Sounds like a great idea. I was unaware of the African use of the word when i created the redirect. --ansbachdragoner 22:52, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I have made the change I proposed. -- Ziusudra 01:51, 1 May 2006 (UTC)