Talk:Jam (disambiguation)

Cosmic Jam
Do you really think people will come to Jam looking for Bill Bailey's Cosmic Jam' The Name of a Tour And DVD By Bill Bailey ? Suppafly 18:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It seems reasonable to me. Michael Jackson's song (for example) is on the disambiguation page, after all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.37.7.247 (talk) 19:48, 31 January 2007

Finger/Toe Jam
It would be nice to have a page that talks about jamming your finger or toe. I don't mean the toe jam you get when you don't wash, i mean the toe and finger jam you get when a ball hits them on their points. I just jammed my finger yesturday playing soccer and wondered if wiki had a page explaining what happened.--Kledsky 19:19, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Isn't this phenomenon known as "stubbing"?. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.37.7.247 (talk) 19:49, 31 January 2007
 * With no real evidence that i can recall, i expect a stubbed toe to be a momentarily intense discomfort, with at worst a bruise remaining, and a finger or toe jam to be a connective tissue injury, require time for healing, and perhaps deserve physical therapy. --Jerzy•t 07:13, 26 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The third kind of toe jam is wedging the front end of your rock-climbing-shoe-shod foot into a crack where you can't put your weight directly onto the bottom surfaces of your toes or the ball of your foot, and standing sort of supported by the sides of the widest part of that foot (while you reposition your hands and other foot in turn as you climb higher). And in climbing there are also such things as a finger jam, pinkie jam, and thumb-down jam (all of which could all be described as "finger jams" in a wider climbing sense of that term). --Jerzy•t 07:13, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Type of spam
The book E-mail: Communicate Effectively, First Edition ISBN 978-0-13-041817-3 by Verna Terminello & Marcia G. Reed uses "jam" to mean unwanted jokes, recipes, etc. sent by someone you know (i.e. a type of spam). I can't find any other sources of this use. -- Madda 15:39, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Removed: The Office and Goitre
I just removed two entries, my explanations: →Ollie (talk • contribs) 19:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Jim and Pam in The Office - this is a page disambiguating encyclopedic articles for different meanings of the words (or three letters) jam, not for listing use in popular culture. I don't predict many people typing in jam and expecting to learn about the terms use in The Office.
 * Goitre, a spoof version - I don't get this at all. A spoof of Jam (TV series)? That's certainly not what Goitre links to. Again, this page if for disambiguation of the term Jam.

I have just removed Goitre again. Having looked further into the issue, I see that Goitre was indeed a spoof version of the TV series Jam, as mentioned in Jam (TV series). However, this still does not warrant a mention on this disambiguation page.

As you will see at Disambiguation, ...disambiguations are paths leading to different topic pages that share essentially the same term in their title. Therefore it is sensible to point at Jam (TV series), but not at Goitre. No-one searching for Goitre (the spoof) would search for Jam.

This is especially compounded by the fact that the article Goitre is about the medical term (rather than the spoof) and has no relation to the word jam. I hope this explains the action I have taken. →Ollie (talk • contribs) 19:08, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Redirect creation
Created redirect as per decision of merge discussion at Talk:Gelatin dessert Jerem43 06:03, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Requested move 11 September 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: not moved. As with what Dicklyon writes in his argument below, "Articles are generally on nouns, not verbs." (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 03:46, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Jam (disambiguation) → Jam – It does not appear necessary for Jam to be a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT, as both the type of fruit preserve and firearm malfunction (or "jam") are equivalent primary topics, with the food not being far and away primary by pageviews or longterm importance. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 09:15, 11 September 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 21:43, 18 September 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support per nomination. There are 62 bulleted entries listed upon the Jam (disambiguation) page, with no indication that users researching Fruit preserves would type the redirect "Jam" to such an overwhelming degree as to dwarf the combined notability of the remaining 61 dab page entries. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:55, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Weak support the fruit is probably the most important but not enough to be primary.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 08:30, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 18:14, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose – this seems like a clear primary topic. Jam has nothing to do with firearms, but is a common verb applicable to all sort of things, not just guns, not just machinery.  Articles are generally on nouns, not verbs.  Think bear and cup and such. Dicklyon (talk) 04:59, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Dicklyon. Again, not sure what problem we are solving – fruit preserve is certainly the first thing people think about when they hear "jam", and the verb "jam" probably second; however, there is no obvious encyclopedic topic connected with the verb, so why would anyone search for that? No such user (talk) 14:27, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose stick with Jam. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:55, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose per above. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:21, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The most common phrase used for the verb in all forms is "jamming", not "jam". The latter usually refers to the food. Steel1943  (talk) 19:25, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. The first thing thought of would be some sort of blockage, followed by some sort of problem, and then finally food; and then a music session -- 65.92.247.226 (talk) 05:50, 24 September 2022 (UTC)