User:Propaniac/ebert

I am proposing that the disambiguation page currently located at Ebert be moved to Ebert (disambiguation), and that Ebert become a redirect to Roger Ebert, per the disambiguation guideline WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, which states: "Although a term may potentially refer to more than one topic, it is often the case that one of these topics is highly likely – much more likely than any other, and more likely than all the others combined – to be the subject being sought when a reader clicks the 'Go' button for that term. If there is such a topic, then it is called the primary topic for that term. If a primary topic exists, the term should be the title of (or redirect to) the article on that topic." I have posted evidence below that Roger Ebert fulfills these criteria as the primary topic for the term "Ebert."


 * Supporting evidence. All pageview stats are found using.
 * Looking at the month of March 2009 to avoid skewing from recent events, in that month, Roger Ebert received 61,893 pageviews. All the other articles listed here received 11,580 pageviews combined, which includes 8,581 pageviews for Friedrich Ebert. For this reason, I suggest that if Ebert redirects to Roger's article, that the latter article have hatnote links to both the disambiguation page and to Friedrich Ebert. (Users searching for the latter article would have only one extra click, so they would be no more inconvenienced than they are now when sent to the disambiguation page.)
 * On days showing a spike in pageviews for Roger Ebert (presumably due to news events), there is also a spike in pageviews for Ebert, indicating that people looking for Roger's article are coming to the disambiguation page. This relationship is especially obvious in the past few months, particularly on January 8 (Ebert Roger Ebert), February 16 and 17 (Ebert Roger Ebert), and March 2 and 3 (Ebert Roger Ebert). I don't see any correlation in pageviews between the dab page and Friedrich Ebert or 3rd-most-popular Patrick Ebert.
 * Ebert is best known as half of the duo Siskel & Ebert (and later Ebert & Roeper), so it seems an easy assumption that he would be commonly identified by his surname only.
 * Roger Ebert clearly dominates search results for "Ebert" on Google.
 * Please note that the criteria here is not which topic is most important, or most notable, or any other subjective judgement; the criteria is which article is most likely to be sought by users under the title "Ebert." Propaniac (talk) 15:09, 28 March 2010 (UTC)