Talk:Pay Pal

Rationale for disambiguation
Per the |Pay_Pal_(The_Simpsons)|Pay_Pal Pageviews Analysis, PayPal the major online payments firm average over 3,900 views per day, while The Simpsons episode averages only 21. Searches for Pay Pal, which was an R from misspelling of PayPal, average only 8 a day, so there is no indication that readers commonly make the error of searching for the online payments company by the erroneous two-word name, or find the article about the Simpsons episode by searching rather than making a direct link.

There was a hatnote to the Simpsons episode on top of the PayPal article, which some might view as undue promotion of The Simpsons, or an unsightly defacement of the article about the company, given the wide variance in popularity of the two articles and the fact that the Simpsons title is a "misspelling" or pun on the company name. HERE you can see where an IP editor (contributions) quietly removed the hatnote on 1 March 2018.

The PayPal article was without a hatnote until 12 April 2018 (for 41 days days), when another editor noticed and added a "redirect" hatnote. That is not a good hatnote as we do not intentionally put misspellings in hatnotes. I have previously addressed this in November 2017 by replacing the hatnote with a valid hatnote that doesn't land the page in the maintenance category Database reports/Linked misspellings.

I'm tired of babysitting this, and it's not good for hatnotes to go missing for over a month. Hence this solution. – wbm1058 (talk) 23:19, 15 April 2018 (UTC)