Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hitchhiking (disambiguation)


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The result was   no consensus. &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 00:32, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Hitchhiking (disambiguation)

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There's actually only one other "hitchhiking" term besides the main topic, which I've added as a hatnote. The rest I've already split up into Hitchhiker (disambiguation), Hitchhike (disambiguation) and The Hitcher. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:21, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:38, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 06:23, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect Hitchhike (disambiguation) Original title still useful as alternate verb form . BTW it would be better to interlink the three split dabs with See-also's.  野狼院ひさし  u/t/c 07:57, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment – The idea is that we need to distinguish between grammatical forms like "Hitchhike" and "Hitchhiking"? Is that the policy? I didn't know, so I left a question at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation. – Margin1522 (talk) 09:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep It seems better to keep such close variations together. Andrew D. (talk) 10:09, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. One problem you seem to have overlooked is that there's only one entry that matches the title, genetic hitchhiking, and that's a partial match. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:42, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * Keep and merge the appropriate similar titles on this page to other disambiguation pages when appropriate; redirect this page to Hitchhike (disambiguation); place Hitchhiking, Genetic hitchhiking and related pages in "See also" sections; keep merged page as a redirect. As long as pages do not get too long and are well-organized, it will be an easy task for readers to find what they've come to read. – Paine EllsworthC LIMAX ! 17:49, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, N ORTH A MERICA 1000 18:49, 7 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Merge – Per nom, we don't need a disambiguation page for the single entry on "Hitchhiking". 's plan for the other items sounds good to me. I think the title of the main disambiguation page should be the base form of the verb, namely "Hitchhike". As to whether "Hitchhiker" should be a section on the "Hitchhike" page or have its own page, I'm OK with either but leaning to having it all on the same page to facilitate maintenance of the See also and other sections, which might have to be duplicated if they were separate pages. – Margin1522 (talk) 20:31, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * delete per MOSDAB: the exact title has only two meanings. "Hitchhiker (dab): and "Hitcher (dab)" are better be kept as separate pages, just as Swimming (disambiguation), Swimmer (disambiguation), Swim (disambiguation).     Staszek Lem (talk) 23:34, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
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