Talk:Turkey (disambiguation)

2006-02-05
There were two meanings for "turkey" which I believe are bogus, I removed them both. They were: "Turkey - A synonym for cool, fashionable. Turkey - Aterm of endearment for one you love ("I love you, you are my turkey") --Xyzzyplugh 20:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

2010-06-10
Oi stop being a turkey you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yardsgray (talk • contribs) 23:17, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Should this page be the main page?
When one types "Turkey" into Wikipedia, the county page appears. I propose that this disambiguation page should appear, as the bird is likely just as popular as the county. Thoughts? --CPAScott (talk) 14:21, 29 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Exactly. 2603:6011:9600:52C0:32D1:5CBD:6957:ADE4 (talk) 17:50, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Turkey which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 20:59, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Cannot find evidence Turkey Lenihan exists
I am not sure that Turkey Lenihan exists. I have checked newspapers, other Wikipedia articles, and my best attempts at Google, and I cannot find anything that mentions him except for this disambiguation page. I cannot find a player by the name (first or last) Lenihan who played for any of the football clubs in Nottinghamshire, either. Should the mention of him be deleted from this page, or can someone better at research find evidence of him? Beesbeesthrees (talk) 22:25, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Obviously vandalism: "reprobates" are generally not notable. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:11, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 17 August 2021

 * 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: not moved (closed by non-admin page mover) D🐶ggy54321 (let's chat!) 20:36, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

– No clear primary topic, Google Images returns more results for the bird. As someone who isn't religious and isn't in the US I'd say that the bird is more common. While the country gets many more views than the specific bird article there are a number of other associated topics and the higher views may partly be due to the country having more incoming links.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 16:46, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Turkey (disambiguation) → Turkey
 * Turkey → Turkey (country)


 * pageviews for all pages linked from the dab page, to save others some clicks. Colin M (talk) 01:46, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose per pageveiws above the country is the clear wp:primarytopic—blindlynx (talk) 03:36, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Strong Oppose, no tangible benefit. Can you even imagine what amount of cleanup that would take afterwards, as well as subsequent maintenance? I'm afraid to even click on Special:Whatlinkshere/Turkey lest the server crashes (kidding, but you get the point). No such user (talk) 07:40, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. While I can obviously see the point about the bird, I think it's being a bit pedantic and is not particularly useful. Why does religion or the US have anything to do with it? -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:53, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Because of Thanksgiving, at least Life After People mentions this.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 10:12, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
 * We're all familiar with the birds in the English-speaking world, but that doesn't mean the very large and significant country isn't primary. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:48, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
 * , I think you'll be better off withdrawing this and taking the time to look more closely at the case, and possibly come up with a more extensive argument. You can't really expect that one of the best established primary topics, with over 93,000 incoming links and stats an order of magnitude greater than anything else with the name, could be dislodged based on Google Images (of all places), and the introspection of one Wikipedia editor. Even just looking at reader behaviour: this article was visited by 12,625 readers each day in March, with only 87 clicking on the hatnote link for the bird and barely 17 clicking the link to the dab page. – Uanfala (talk) 16:56, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
 * This has been debated a few times over the years so I'b be more inclined to just wait for the 7 days to be up.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 17:03, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose - The WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of the word remains that of the country, not the bird.  Hansen Sebastian Talk 18:45, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose - The country gets nearly 80% of pageviews. A country is about as high on the "long-term significance" scale as you can get, so there are no subjective factors that would lead us to override this insurmountable lead. (Also, I don't think the effect of incoming links should be discounted, as it is also quite a chore to link to a parenthetically disambiguated title for such a popular topic.) -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:52, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose The country is still the primary topic. What will be proposed next, move Jordan out of primary because someone thinks that something else is the primary topic? LSGH (talk) (contributions) 07:43, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The country is, very clearly, the primary topic, even if the bird gets more references in English-language google hits. BilledMammal (talk) 00:19, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Google hits are also dominated by the country. What the nominator was referring to was hits on Google Images. – Uanfala (talk) 00:30, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I must have skipped over that word; thank you for the clarification. BilledMammal (talk) 00:47, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose, the country is clearly primary...--Ortizesp (talk) 05:50, 22 August 2021 (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.

Good morning all. Name changed
The country name has been changed as Türkiye. Would you think to change it with the correct one in your encyclopaedia? You cannot keep it forever non-exist name. 77.98.246.117 (talk) 20:55, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
 * No. Turkey is how it's known in most places. See MOS:COMMONNAME. (If things turn around, as it did for Peking->Beijing, then this can be revisited.) Clarityfiend (talk) 11:55, 30 March 2024 (UTC)