Talk:Saint Cyprian

If the primary meaning of Cyprian is Cyprian of Carthage, who was a saint, then isn't the primary meaning of St Cyprian the same? St Cyprian redirects there. Srnec (talk) 15:13, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 * A case can be made, but it's one I'd be reluctant to support. WP:PTOPICs and WP:PRIMARYREDIRECTs attract bad links, which rarely or never get fixed unless something thinks of checking them. WP:TESTLINK is more a pious hope than a guideline. Two of our colleagues check several hundred known link magnets daily, including redirects like, and  which many editors assume will link to the sports team (or band) they were thinking of; see the Backlinks items in WikiProject Bluelink patrol. ( exceptionally redirects to Bull (disambiguation), so that particular plural isn't a problem.) (In my experience, WP:RMs on plural-to-singular redirects and the like are a waste of time; they usually result in  WP:NOCONSENSUS, because enough participants think that saving some readers one click outweighs the damage caused by pointing readers to the wrong article. See e.g. Talk:Commonwealth, where that was the result even though over three-quarters of the incoming links were wrong; 500 new ones had accumulated in a little over two years.)
 * Cyprian has 1,900 links, and is on my to-do list; with any luck, excluding some templates and categories will get that figure down to a few hundred. The word is rare, but I'd expect to find a handful of bad links.
 * I can't remember the article in which I recently fixed a link, but it was "monasterio di san Cipriano, in Spain. A multilingual search proved fruitless; I found out nothing at all about it. I eventually settled on the best-known of the saints called Cyprian on the balance of probabilities. Narky Blert (talk) 16:39, 21 August 2021 (UTC)


 * My main concern is that St Cyprian, St. Cyprian and Saint Cyprian not be treated differently. Redirecting the former two will require some link repair. Srnec (talk) 17:50, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree that all three redirects should point to the same article (IMO, preferably the DAB page). Any needed cleanup will be minor, I've seen far worse. Narky Blert (talk) 19:59, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and done it. Fixed a few. This might lead to more wrong links than a primary redirect, but at least they are easily identified. Srnec (talk) 01:35, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
 * There were another 20 links from those two redirects, and another DABfixer got them before I did. Narky Blert (talk) 09:52, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm pleased to be able to report that Cyprian has no bad links-in. Narky Blert (talk) 10:23, 30 August 2021 (UTC)