Talk:Marine biologist

Why not a dab page?
Hi User:MB, I am just wondering why you reverted my edit, without explanation in the edit summary? I thought it made sense to create a disambiguation page and then delete the hatnote that is currently at marine biology. I have explained why I don't think we need such a hatnote here. EMsmile (talk) 07:26, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
 * If I may weigh in: you acknowledge in the linked thread that most people are not looking for the Seinfeld episode, which is why you don't think we should have the hatnote at Marine biology. Policies aside (although the status quo is very much policy-compliant), imagine this: you are a reader typing in "marine biologist" in the search bar, because you want to read about what a marine biologist does. Which of the following two situations is more inconvenient to you:
 * 1. You are taken, through the redirect, directly to Marine biology, which is the relevant article for you. You may or may not notice the hatnote linking to the Seinfeld episode, but whether you notice it or not, it doesn't affect you in any way.
 * 2. You are taken to a disambiguation page containing both Marine biology and The Marine Biologist, and have to click on Marine biology to end up where you want to be.
 * I think it's clear why the second scenario is far more inconvenient, and thus why turning this redirect into a disambigation is not a good solution. Whether to have the hatnote at Marine biology or not can be debated, but marine biologist should definitely remain a redirect. Lennart97 (talk) 12:50, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, fair point. I was just trying to find a compromise solution for that hatnote issue. Am I the only one who finds it weird that a 1994 episode from an American sitcom should get so much lime light by being in the hatnote of marine biology? Is there another compromise solution that someone can think of? Does policy dictate that any article with a similar title MUST be mentioned in a hatnote, no matter how important or unimportant it is, or how many views it gets? (honest question, not an ironic question) EMsmile (talk) 13:04, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I've replied at Talk:Marine biology as well, so I suggest we keep the hatnote discussion there (not that I mind that you replied here of course, it makes perfect sense). The short answer to the above would be: I don't think there's any policy like you described, but I also think there isn't any policy that certain articles are inherently more worthy of hatnotes than others. Lennart97 (talk) 13:12, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , First I did leave an edit summary - I said "Restore redirect to primary target". This is discussed in WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, which Lennart97 has summarized above. Since the majority of people who search on Marine biologist are best served by being sent to Marine biology, we send them directly there to avoid the inconvenience of having to select that article from a dab page. For the minority looking for the other topic, we expect them to click a second time on the link in the hatnote. MB 13:29, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, thank you both for taking the time to respond. I appreciate that. EMsmile (talk) 13:35, 20 May 2021 (UTC)