Talk:Seal

Untitled
I have broken this into four separate articles without otherwise changing the content - so far. I may revise the text for the "device" article at a later time.

This comes in the wake of establishing a Library of Congress classification page for Class C, particularly with reference to subclass CD. I hope to now revise the links to "seal" to be ones to the relevant article.

Why can't we...
Use Seal for the animal and move other links to Seal (disambiguation)?? 66.32.109.248 01:23, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

I have requested that the contents page be moved to Seal (disambiguation) and that the seal page then redirect to Pinnipedia (with a disambiguation notice on that page) --Clawed 05:46, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Oppose. "Seals" in the sense of seal (device) are important in many historical, biographical or art historical topics. It's not a particularly outlandish subject, but the title is a bit non-obvious, and that page should not be too difficult to find. up◦land 07:37, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * oppose. seals (the animals) and seals (the device) are probably equally important, so there's not one definition that clearly stands out as the most used. I think seal should stay the disambig. page. Lachatdelarue (talk) 21:46, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. For me, Seal is a U.S.Navy SEAL in the first place :) DmitryKo 19:18, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, judging by links alone, Pinnipeds are certianly more linked to than seal (device) or U.S. Navy SEALs. Megan1967 08:32, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The animal doesn't seem to be the clear primary target of this name, or even the majority use. Should remain a disambig. Jonathunder 02:25, 2005 May 6 (UTC)
 * Oppose. As said above, there is an ambiguity of name, and one is not more important or necessarily prevalent than another. Logically, a disambiguation page is required. Rincebrain 08:25, 2005 May 6 (UTC)

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it to be moved. violet/riga (t) 18:54, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Merge in contents of SEAL
There was also a similar but much smaller disambiguation page with the title SEAL. I have merged its contents into this page, and changed SEAL to redirect to Seal. - Hebrides 08:34, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages with links
I have just adopted this subject from Disambiguation pages with links. On review of Disambiguation ''It is acceptable, on the other hand, to create a page at "Term XYZ (disambiguation)" that redirects to the disambiguation page at "Term XYZ". This type of redirect can be used to indicate deliberate links to the disambiguation page'' so it would seem to be appropriate to have a page Seal (disambiguation) just to meet that need. As Seal is clearly a multi disambiguated term I had thought to move and redirect Seal to Seal (disambiguation) but I can see from the comments at Why can't we... that a some what similar but less NPOV move was rejected a couple years ago. Jeepday 16:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Seals are so interesting.
Wow i never knew this and it was amazing! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.118.91.146 (talk) 19:19, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

SEAL Magazine
I reverted a redlink to SEAL Magazine which had been inserted by Fracese; subsequently CambridgeBayWeather reverted its reinsertion twice, with associated discussion on the talk pages of Fracese and CambridgeBayWeather.

I wholeheartedly support CambridgeBayWeather's suggestion that Fracese should not insert a link here unless there is a wikipedia article about SEAL Magazine that satisfies Notability. However, having looked at the SEAL Magazine website (currenly little more than a non-interactive video dated 2006 promoting a magazine that is "coming to a newsstand near you") and having searched the internet unsuccessfully for reliable independent sources to cite in such an article, I think this publication has a little way to go before it meets the Notability criteria. Here is the best I could find (in addition to their own website, of course): ... and some unsavoury links that I will not reproduce here. None of these appears to be aware of the publication promoted by Fracese.
 * Seal Magazine Cover Photos - Seal Magazine Covers - seems to be unrelated
 * Seal Magazine - Signode, Titan, Bostich, 3M, Columbia, Orgapack ... - AHP-2-114 Seal Feed Pneumatic Tool schematic
 * Seal Magazine - News, Reviews and Videos - which turns out to be Idio Ltd.
 * Seal Magazine - all about the AHP-2-114 Seal Feed Pneumatic Tool For 1-1/4^ Steel Strapping
 * Seal Magazine - irrelevant

So I've tried to be fair to Fracese, but readers can draw their own conclusions... -- Hebrides (talk) 13:38, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Commonly refers to items
As part of cleaning up the page, I placed my suspected most common items at the top (partly based on the discussion above). The most common items should be agreed upon, so for now I have proposed and listed: Widefox (talk) 22:17, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Pinniped
 * Seal (mechanical
 * Seal (emblem)

Seal (the musician)
The Onion is at it (again). . Alphabetizing the headers makes more sense than promoting a musician. Rklawton (talk) 13:04, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

The usage of is under discussion, see talk:seal (emblem) -- 65.92.247.66 (talk) 10:59, 14 January 2024 (UTC)