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I assume that ''bury'' is cognate with the German ''burg''. Can anyone confirm this? [[User:Bastie|Bastie]] 01:56, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

== Requested move 11 August 2018 ==

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The result of the move request was: '''move''' the pages to the requested titles at this time, per the discussion below. [[User:Dekimasu|Dekimasu]]<small>[[User talk:Dekimasu|よ!]]</small> 09:16, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
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* [[:Bury (disambiguation)]] → {{no redirect|Bury}}
* [[:Bury]] → {{no redirect|Bury, Greater Manchester}}
– There is no clear primary topic here, while this is more significant than the other places called just "Bury" the name is too ambiguous for it to be primary. [[Leigh]] is a DAB rather than being about the one that's by far the largest-[[Leigh, Greater Manchester]]. While the main Google mainly returns the place in GM, a Google images search returns other things. A Google Books search returns mainly returns [[Bury St Edmunds]] (which gets more views than Bury, GM) and [[Burial]]. Similar issues have been debated for [[Wells]], [[Nice]], [[Settle]], [[Barking]], [[Yelling]] and [[Steep]]. '''[[User:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Green">Crouch, Swale</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Red">talk</span>]])  06:23, 11 August 2018 (UTC)<small>--'''''Relisting.''''' [[User:Dekimasu|Dekimasu]]<small>[[User talk:Dekimasu|よ!]]</small> 19:17, 19 August 2018 (UTC)</small>
*'''Support''' and agree there's no clear primary topic.  [[User:Huwmanbeing|╠╣uw]]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:smaller"><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:Huwmanbeing|talk]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></span> 12:38, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

*'''Oppose''' this is the primary topic, clearly the most important.  The other meanings are either associated with this town or small obscure places.  Leigh should be considered on its own merits.  Google books might be a bit wonky, or their search criteria might not be the same as Wikipedia criteria for determining primary meaning. [[User:PatGallacher|PatGallacher]] ([[User talk:PatGallacher|talk]]) 00:20, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
*:There aren't just small places, there's lots of other meanings, like those that I pointed out above, [[Newport]] is also a DAB even though the city in Wales is the 3rd largest in Wales. I doubt that a term this common would have a [[WP:PRIMARYTOPIC]] by usage or long term significance. '''[[User:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Green">Crouch, Swale</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Red">talk</span>]])  07:57, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
*'''Support'''. I also agree there is no clear primary topic here. [[User:Rreagan007|Rreagan007]] ([[User talk:Rreagan007|talk]]) 02:54, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
*'''Support''' - No clear primary topic.<sub><small>[[User:Zxcvbnm|ZXCVBNM]] ([[User Talk:Zxcvbnm|TALK]])</small></sub> 03:48, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
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== Incoming wikilinks ==

There are now over 1,000 wikilinks to the disambiguation page [[Bury]].  (That's about 20% of all such errors on Wikipedia.)  I checked a sample, all of which refer to [[Bury, Greater Manchester]].  If you really must this article away from its base name, please [[WP:FIXDABLINKS|fix all resulting mis-directed links]].  Thanks, [[User:Certes|Certes]] ([[User talk:Certes|talk]]) 01:26, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
: I would certainly have opposed this move had I seen the discussion in time. The place in Greater Manchester (population 78,000) is the clear [[WP:PTOPIC]]; as demonstrated by the fact that the move broke 1,086 links, every one of which looks correct. [[User:Narky Blert|Narky Blert]] ([[User talk:Narky Blert|talk]]) 07:47, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
::I don't think all the links are for the place in GM, and I will start fixing the links in a few hours when dabsolver starts working. '''[[User:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Green">Crouch, Swale</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Red">talk</span>]])  07:51, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
:::Seven of the links were for [[Bury F.C.]] (though [[Bury, Greater Manchester|Bury]] is its common metonym).  I've fixed those.  I also would have opposed the move had I been aware of the discussion. [[User:Certes|Certes]] ([[User talk:Certes|talk]]) 10:18, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
::::I just fixed 3 that were for [[Bury St Edmunds]], its difficult to tell by looking at the recent changes linked for "Bury, Greater Manchester" for links to that page if there were also some for [[Burial]] or the dictionary word. '''[[User:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Green">Crouch, Swale</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Red">talk</span>]])  10:44, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
::Agree, this was a poor move. It should be reversed. The town of Bury is a clear primary topic over the other entries. {{ping|Dekimasu}} please could you reopen the discussion? &nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;[[User:Amakuru|Amakuru]] ([[User talk:Amakuru|talk]]) 08:35, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
:::Thank you for the ping. The links have all been cleaned up at this point, so on one hand the issue raised here has already been dealt with, and on the other it's difficult to determine what the links indicated; additionally, concerns that dab links would be created aren't generally an adequate rationale for opposing a move. That leaves the discussion above (the results of which were fairly clear) and the underlying original question of whether there is a primary topic. Rather than reopen the previous discussion, I think it would be better to say that a new one should be allowed at any time. I did not know there was discussion ongoing here, and it seems likely that others have packed up and moved on as well. Reopening the old discussion might be more likely than before to end up at no consensus, but maybe a new discussion with someone making a strong argument in favor of a primary topic could reach a clear consensus one way or the other. [[User:Dekimasu|Dekimasu]]<small>[[User talk:Dekimasu|よ!]]</small> 18:21, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
::::One way to tell is using the recent changes linked, which I did with links to [[Bury, Greater Manchester]] and I also did links to Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Burial to see when BD2412 fixed them with AWB, I checked for errors, of which I found 3 that I could detect, but there could be others. '''[[User:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Green">Crouch, Swale</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Red">talk</span>]])  18:41, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
:As someone who started on Wikipedia mostly doing extensive cleanup for [[WP:DPL]], I have to say that whether the discussion reached the best possible conclusion does not have much to do with the volume of wikilinks involved. It's important to understand as well that links to disambiguation pages should be cleaned up whenever possible, but links to disambiguation pages are not errors on their face and the links are not broken–readers are sent to navigation pages that get them where they intended to go. We used to regularly have [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Disambiguation_pages_with_links/2007-02-06_dump&oldid=112049619 over 2000 pages with over 100 links to disambiguation pages] in our database dumps; now that the database dumps list pages with 1 (!) link, there might be a tendency to forget that new dab links are created through various appropriate processes all the time, and one of the main ways is necessarily through move requests that have to do with primary topic determinations.
:In this case, about 200 links off the top were from transclusions of [[:Template:Greater Manchester]], and 60 more were from [[:Template:Public housing in the United Kingdom]], so those were fixed in a couple of edits by [[User:Crouch, Swale|Crouch, Swale]]. I don't know what other templates were involved, but there was a good-faith effort made by editors who supported the move to clean up a significant number of the new dablinks as was requested by [[User:Certes|Certes]]. Thanks, of course, to anyone else who volunteered help. [[User:Dekimasu|Dekimasu]]<small>[[User talk:Dekimasu|よ!]]</small> 18:21, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
::In the vast majority of cases I fix all the links shortly after the discussion, I didn't do them all immediately as there were so many, anyway the fact that the links were apparently correct isn't necessarily a strong argument for a PT, however it is evidence. I think there was clear enough consensus that this was not the PT, never mind a lack of consensus that it is the PT (which up to a point I believe there needs to be a level of consensus for a PT, not a lack of one, although that is disputed). {{ping|Amakuru}} you're welcome to start a new RM. '''[[User:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Green">Crouch, Swale</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Red">talk</span>]])  18:29, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
::Looks like there were [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Disambiguation_pages_with_links/The_Daily_Disambig&oldid=855860099 831 links] listed the first day this went on the list. It was down to zero [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Disambiguation_pages_with_links/The_Daily_Disambig&oldid=856452053 three days later]. [[User:Dekimasu|Dekimasu]]<small>[[User talk:Dekimasu|よ!]]</small> 19:31, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
:::I would point out [[Somerton]] which was about the pop 4,697 town, not the pop 14,287-[[Somerton, Arizona]] or the pop 33,931 [[Somerton, Philadelphia]] but there was 4 for [[Somerton, Oxfordshire]] and 1 for [[Somerton, Victoria]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20180727235959&limit=250&contribs=user&target=Crouch%2C+Swale&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end=2018-07-27]. 19:39, 29 August 2018 (UTC)<!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Crouch, Swale|Crouch, Swale]] ([[User talk:Crouch, Swale#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Crouch, Swale|contribs]]) </small>
{{ping|Dekimasu}} I wasn't talking so much about the incoming links, I just don't agree with the move in the first place, so because both myself and Narky have indicated that we don't agree with it, I'm asking you relist the above discussion so we can make our points. Asking me to file a new move request is not fair because then the new location of the page is the status quo. Bear in mind this page has been stable at thos title for 15 years, surely it is reasonable to allow the debate to reach a conclusion. &nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;[[User:Amakuru|Amakuru]] ([[User talk:Amakuru|talk]]) 22:45, 29 August 2018 (UTC)