Talk:Scorpions

Scorpions re-direct to disambiguation pages
Just so we're clear as to why "scorpions" is redirected here; it is long standing Wikipedia precedent that plural versions of terms that have a Wikipedia article or disambiguation pages be re-directed to the primary term page. Besides, the frist 2 pages (19 listings) of Google search results for "scorpions" brings up 13 related to the arthropod and 6 are related to the German band. "Scorpions" is just as much of a general term with multiple meanings as "scorpion." It's for cases like this are why there are disambiguation pages. -- --Oakshade 18:49, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually the general rule is that the plural direct to the singular, so by that rule it should redirect to to scorpion not scorpion (disambiguation). There are of course many, many exceptions (Germans, Italians, Browns off the top of my head).
 * Agreed. Scorpion being the singular in scorpion (disambiguation). --Oakshade 07:06, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * In this case Scorpions is overwhelmingly used to mean the Rock You Like a Hurricane band. I know it was the name of (at least) two other bands, and there are other meanings, but I disambiguated a couple down links and I know the mix of links.  There's no reason to link to anything else. — Randall Bart (talk) 05:59, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * And I've just fixed four articles that pointed to "scorpions" and meant the arthropod - all the remaining 50 or so mean the band, judging by the titles. This is overwhelmingly the most common usage. Also, it's not true that the plural always points to the singular - a very apposite counterexample is Eagles, which goes straight to the band. Colonies Chris (talk) 13:56, 10 September 2008 (UTC)