Talk:Thousand Oaks

Disambiguation
Hi you just reverted the change from a redirect to Thousand Oaks, California into a DAB with multiple ambiguous entries with the rationale "clear WP:PRIMARYTITLE [sic!], and a lot of links are expecting a redirect to it". Just these are not so many and I was just starting to fix them. --SI 22:01, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Might help if I'd linked to the correct policy: WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. The basic principle is not to send readers to a dab page if they are highly likely to want to go to a particular page, just redirect them directly.  The few that didn't want to go there can be helped using a hatnote, either directly or to a separate dab page.   Once you've read that, you can use the pageview tool to see if any particular page is more popular than all the others combined.  Might save you the trouble of fixing a lot of links.  Lithopsian (talk) 22:06, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * While the pageview tool doesn't work on my computer, I understand your consideration that more people would usually look for the bigger city. Just since today many more people will be looking for the mass shooting, and they don't know in which place it happened, and it isn't easy to find in the long article. I've put the DAB entries now to Thousand Oaks (disambiguation). --SI 22:22, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks good. Lithopsian (talk) 14:17, 9 November 2018 (UTC)