User talk:Techhead7890/memphis

The case for Memphis (disambiguation)
I mean seriously, this has been brought up for years. If America is 300 million people, how the heck is a primary topic a regional city that's named after the thing that the other 96% of the world is thinking of? I'm not accusing anyone in particular, but the sense that there is a consensus to "remain" at Tennessee [edit: on the basis of a poverty of selective evidence] is absolutely farcical – if not only for NPOV, but for the sake of historical education. Techhead7890 (talk) 11:56, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, so people cite link stats, etc, for the reason that TN is "more primary" to Egypt. Well, let's start by inspecting the state and ancient civilization's pages. We can note that Ancient Egypt has 130k views, as compared to the 96k of the US State. If we are to go by Wikipedia traffic statistics alone, I would agree with past editors that nobody outside of the US is familiar with the city. Secondly, there are more links to the Ancient City (520 vs 500), and if you discount all the non-stub Town pages which might as well have been made automatically, that number of links to the US city shrinks to 237 (over half).
 * This redirect is not a insignificant contributor of article views to Memphis, Tennessee: only some 5000 people per month pass through it, and for those users and viewers I hardly think it is a significant inconvenience for them to type "Memphis TN". However, I find that the pageview data tells a different story for the Egyptian city. |Memphis,_Egypt This chart shows the pageviews during a surge of interest for "Memphis Egypt" strongly correlate with an increase of views to the disambiguation page, and a high proportion of those are from |Memphis,_Egypt mobile users. I think it is pretty plain what this indicates: people unfamiliar with Wikipedia are wasting time trying to find the article they are looking for.
 * In summary, I strongly think there is evidence that there is no singular primary topic – and certainly not enough to funnel users to the Tennessee edition. Memphis Egypt is a strong article in its own right that attracts 30k views per month. I strongly feel that redirecting to the disambiguation page (as previously suggested) and which has a link to "Mem. Tenessee" first anyways, is the best option. Techhead7890 (talk) 12:24, 15 April 2018 (UTC)