Talk:Ringwood, Hampshire

Notability of places around Ringwood
A lot of the hamlets and suburbs around Ringwood have their own page on Wikipedia, and I'm wondering if they're all justified. Of the various settlements, I guess Poulner, Hightown, Crow, and perhaps Hangersley can justify having their own page. I have tagged Forest Corner and Linbrook since neither seem to me to be notable as independent settlements. I am wondering though about Blashford, Highwood, Shobley, and Picket Hill? Pasicles (talk) 23:12, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sandford could also probably be added to the list. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 23:35, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 5 March 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: moved to Ringwood, Hampshire. Favonian (talk) 12:00, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

– I do not think that the English municipality of approximately 14,000 people is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of the term "Ringwood". There are six other municipalities named "Ringwood" listed on the disambiguation page, including a 17,000-person Australia settlement and a 12,000-person United States settlement. One of the necessary conditions for being a primary topic, namely that the article subject be much more likely than any other single topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term is failed in the current arrangement. As this [|Ringwood|Ringwood,_New_Jersey pageviews chart] shows, the current Ringwood page gets significantly less than half of the views of the total views of the three municipalities named Ringwood, even when WP:PRIMARYTOPIC would require them to have well over 50% of views. Since there is no primary topic, the disambiguation page should usurp this article and the article should be moved to a title that naturally disambiguates, which my proposal does. — Mhawk10 (talk) 07:26, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Ringwood → Ringwood, England
 * Ringwood (disambiguation) → Ringwood


 * I support this tepidly. I think little harm would be done leaving things as they are, since when people search for "Ringwood" they usually get a list of suggestions anyways. And some or all of the other Ringwoods may be named after the English one. But, technically, there's nothing wrong with it going to a disambiguation page...Brianyoumans (talk) 15:30, 5 March 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 nom (well, move to Ringwood, Hampshire per WP:UKPLACE). No primary topic based on pageviews, no primary topic based on population, etc. The safest bet would be to have the disambiguation page at the basename. Paintspot Infez (talk) 17:47, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Weak support but use Ringwood, Hampshire per WP:UKPLACE. It could be the original of all the others but that's not certain an the name seems rather generic. US settlements and to a lesser extent Australian ones often have the state as part of the name rather than just for disambiguation purposes so readers who use just "Ringwood" may be more likely to be looking for this one but its still not clear if there is a primary topic even taking that into account.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 18:07, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Not the primary topic here. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:18, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment as nom. I was unaware of WP:UKPLACE, but I support a move to Ringwood, Hampshire in light of the guidance. — Mhawk10 (talk) 23:00, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Support Ringwood, Hampshire only Red   Slash  06:17, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Support There are two settlements, one in America and one in Australia, that have more population than this town in England. Crossover1370  (talk &#124; contribs) 16:04, 10 March 2022 (UTC)