Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2018 April 1

= April 1 =

PRPA
I created the disambiguation PRPA with two P... Regional Port Authority articles, but I suspect there may be more. How can I search for more?--Dthomsen8 (talk) 15:23, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Directly on Wikipedia? I'm not aware of a way. However, you can use Google by searching for PRPA -puerto -philadelphia to get some potential candidates. Unfortunately, Googling site:wikipedia PRPA -puerto -philadelphia doesn't bring up anything for me. Matt Deres (talk) 16:17, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Google's  tag takes a domain name.  Try it with , or for English only,  . --69.159.62.113 (talk) 07:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC)


 * put PRPA in the wikipedia search box at the top left of any article. a drop-down will appear. click the bottom item ("containing PRPA"). check all the search results. I already added Prince Rupert Port Authority. -Arch dude (talk) 17:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

I have found the Pondera Regional Port Authority There are plenty of other PRPAs, but not, as far as I can see, related to ports. How about the Platte River Power Authority or the Pacific Railway Preservation Association? Wymspen (talk) 15:23, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * We had a false incoming link to PRPA. I de-linked and replaced it with an unlinked "Professional Race Pilots Association", which has no article. Note that we do no in general add an item to a disambiguation page unless there is a Wikipedia article for the item. If an article is eventually created, presumably the creator or another editor will add it to the PRPA page. -Arch dude (talk) 17:03, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Four-letter acronyms can have a lot of unrelated meanings. I have a web page about something called CPAP and made http://primerecords.dk/meaning.htm in 2004. I only searched briefly and the Internet has grown a lot since. A Wikipedia disambiguation page is only the tip of the iceberg. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:39, 3 April 2018 (UTC)