Talk:Northwest (disambiguation)

Is this really a proper dab page?
I wanted to take this on as part of the Disambiguation pages with links project, but many of the wikilinks to Northwest refer to the ordinal direction, which is covered better on this page than anywhere else. A proper dab page should not contain article content -- it should purely be a set of redirections allowing the reader to locate the article that meets his/her needs best. Can this be fixed? --Tkynerd 18:16, 12 November 2006 (UTC)


 * You may talk to User:R'n'B who did Southeast. I think the best choice here would be to link to Cardinal direction where the ordial directions are also covered.--VirtualDelight 20:33, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I was thinking the same thing...but the fact remains that the dab page should not contain article material (a dab page should not itself be a suitable wikilink target; that's the whole point of this project), so the description of the ordinal direction should be removed from Northwest. Another problem is that a look at Cardinal direction shows a link to Northwest, which of course needs to be dabbed...to Cardinal direction! What a mess. :-( R'n'B, or someone else, has linked back to Southeast from Cardinal direction, which I don't think is a good solution. I've just been looking around at these articles (and at what the MoS has to say about disambiguation pages), and I think the proper solution is: (1) give the ordinal direction, briefly, as the primary meaning of "Northwest" at the top of that page; (2) link from Northwest to Cardinal direction; (3) not link from Cardinal direction to Northwest because there is no information about the ordinal direction at Northwest that cannot be found at Cardinal direction; (4) dab other pages to link to Cardinal direction, as you suggested. Opinions welcome. --Tkynerd 21:28, 12 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree with your solution. As for (1) I think that the definiton is given with the Wiktionarylink. So the page could start with:

Northwest is a Cardinal direction. Wiktionarylink

Northwest may also refer to:


 * Dabing sometimes is quite a mess, but that's also part of the fun doing it :-)--VirtualDelight 22:54, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I suppose so.... ;-) I think it's perfectly OK to leave the basic definition ("Northwest is an ordinal direction that lies exactly halfway between north and west," or the like) at Northwest; I just don't think Cardinal direction should link back to Northwest because that information is already there at Cardinal direction. I'll implement this solution (tomorrow!); thanks for your help. --Tkynerd 03:57, 13 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, Northwest is an ordinal direction, not a cardinal direction. --Russ (talk) 22:04, 13 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Indeed. Please review what I wrote immediately above. The ordinal directions are also covered at Cardinal direction. --Tkynerd 23:27, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

New take on the question: Is this really a proper dab page?
I don't think a dab page should list numerous terms that happen to include the term being dabbed; it should only include those concepts that are at least sometimes referred to by the single term itself. For example, I don't think that either the Northwest Passage or the Northwest Ordinance is ever referred to simply as "Northwest"; consequently, they don't belong here. The page is in dire need of cleanup on this point, IMO. Other opinions welcome. :-) --Tkynerd 16:37, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

North West child
Given the number of google news hits, this seems like a common search term. Frietjes (talk) 18:23, 21 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, but we don't have a Wikipedia article about this person, or any other Wikipedia article which states more than the fact that this person was born a few days ago. Disambiguation pages are to help people work out the difference between several articles with similar names, not to list all possible uses of a phrase. --  Dr Greg   talk  20:01, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * from MOS:DABENTRY, "the primary purpose of the disambiguation page is to help people find the specific article they want quickly and easily". please point me to the section that states that every entry must have an article about the person.  I have seen plenty of disambiguation pages with redlinks and entries for redirected articles. Frietjes (talk) 20:37, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * She absolutely merits inclusion. I was going to link to MOS:DABMENTION; it's the same principle. And while North West redirects to Kim Kardashian, I think linking to Kanye West as well makes sense per WP:IAR. Normally, it's one entry per line, but she's mentioned in both articles. --BDD (talk) 01:43, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * North West now links to the compass direction. Why has it changed? 146.115.129.15 (talk) 00:19, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Because this isn't a gossip celeb magazine, this is an encyclopedia. JanderVK (talk) 16:43, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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