Talk:Jane Doe (disambiguation)

Use of redirects in disambiguation lists
The redirect Jane Doe (pseudonym) is currently used on this disambiguation page. Reading the Manual_of_Style_(disambiguation_pages) article, one finds the following:
 * "Subject to certain exceptions as listed below, piping or redirects should not be used in disambiguation pages. ..."

Reviewing the Manual of Style's descriptions of when exceptions are considered appropriate, it's not clear to me that linking directly to the redirect page Jane Doe (pseudonym) in this case satisfies any of the "exception" categories listed - although neither is it clear that it doesn't qualify as an exception. Perhaps the Jane Doe case is analogous to the "James Cary" exception described there because:
 * "Linking to a redirect can also be helpful when the redirect contains the disambiguated term and could serve as an alternative name for the target article,..."

The term "Jane Doe" is included in the lead paragraph to the "John Doe" article and I suppose this exception would fit even better if "Jane Doe (pseudonym)" were considered a possible alternative title for the "John Doe" article. There is a brief general discussion of the topic at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Disambiguation_pages which doesn't quite resolve the question for me but... I suppose it's not doing any harm currently 'as is'. Pugetbill (talk) 18:54, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 3 January 2015

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The result of the move request was: Page to be moved. Consensus is unanimous for the move, with valid reasons. Jane Doe and Jane Doe (pseudonym) will be redirected to John Doe. Note: this mvoe requires a technical request for deletion of the target page, which I will initiate, so has not beeen carried out yet. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 10:53, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Jane Doe → Jane Doe (disambiguation) – Jane Doe (pseudonym) is the clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC more likely that other candidates put together - the most prominent being an unreferenced TV film stub. This happens to be similar to John Doe being the PT, and it should be a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to John Doe. Not expecting this to be controvercial, I've already styled so (undo me if you consider it so). Widefox ; talk 23:13, 3 January 2015 (UTC) Ping Paine Ellsworth who may be interested. Widefox ; talk 00:04, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. All uses of Jane Doe derive from the pseudonym. -- Calidum  23:49, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Agree with above.  Faceless Enemy (talk) 00:26, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Jane and John Doe are distant cousins of mine. Dohn joe (talk) 17:40, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Clear primary topic. kennethaw88 • talk 05:46, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Their argument makes sense. Egsan Bacon (talk) 16:13, 6 January 2015 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.