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Removal of NY-WTC

Dear editors,

The New York WTC link have been removed due to the fact that this is a disambig page, not a list of all the twin-towers ever in existence, as doing so will clutter the page. Please link the article to lists such as this or/and this. No harm done, its just to follow rules of disambig pages. All comments welcome. Have a good day. Rehman (talk) 14:25, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it will clutter the page. I can't think of that many more former buildings with twin structures. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 15:13, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed split, move, reorganization

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

A disambig page is designed to help users find articles that they are likely looking for given the title they have provided. For North American wikipedians, at least, the phrase "Twin Towers" is overwhelmingly associated with the World Trade Center; a quick Google or Factiva search will easily verify this. As nice as it is as an Albertan to see Bankers Hall featured so prominently, they really aren't referred to as 'Twin Towers', they just are twin towers. Aside from failing to identify the single most prominent article associated with this title, this page also has a lot more content than is suggested by WP:DAB, which makes it difficult to find articles which are listed that would plausibly be associated with the article name Twin Towers.

I would propose:

The Hitchiker's Guide reference is rather trivial and extremely unlikely to be what the reader is looking for, so I'd axe it.--Trystan (talk) 05:51, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • I support option 2: move back this page to Twin Towers. This is not really a DAB page, because none of these pages would ever be called "Twin Towers" in a global encyclopedia. Instead, it is a page about the twin-tower design, and famous examples of it. And since it is not a DAB page, a few trivial media references don't hurt. 87.115.2.237 (talk) 07:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Suggestion
  1. build a dab page for twin tower/twin towers... here's a good as any, alternately use twin towers (disambiguation)
  2. redirect Twin Towers to the NYC WTC; despite the claim that a proper dab would _not_ list the NYC WTC, this is clearly not helpful, and bureaucratic/WikiLawyering, since Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, it's stupid not to list the NYC WTC, because it's the most prominent usage of the term.
  3. create the list of twin towers from the current page contents
  4. move Twin Tower to Twin Tower design
  5. redirect Twin Tower somewhere
70.51.11.201 (talk) 11:17, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Trystan & 70.51.11.201,
The proposal for creating a new article for List of twin buildings seems to be a good idea, since listing every twin-structure in a disambiguation page dosen't seem convenient. Do give me some time as i am working on the procedure mentioned above. The only objection to the above proposal is that i dont think it is a good move to remove any disambig links since this is an international online encyclopedia and people do search for unbelievable articles. All comments welcome. Have a good day. Rehman (talk) 13:51, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Completely support the proposal. This actually is quite simple. This page was moved here from "Twin Towers" on 16 August for no reason other than "Title is much more appropriate to the contents". But there is now no article at "Twin Towers" (it redirects here) and "(disambiguation)" is never needed as part of the article title unless there is another article that is the primary topic. Not to mention the "s" was dropped along the way. This article should be moved back to "Twin Towers". Station1 (talk) 23:57, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Station1,
On the basis of the above mentioned proposal, I have completed the necessary procedures. This artcicle have been completely changed to an ordinary disambiguation page and a new article have been created to list all other twin and other multiple identical structures (in the world) which are not listed in the disambig page. Dont get me wrong, but i dont understand why there should be an article named Twin Towers, as such a name cant list the items which this article contains (disambig links). No harm done, i hope you understand. All comments welcome. Have a good day. Rehman (talk) 04:15, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for creating the new article. It is not necessary for an ordinary disambiguation page to actually have the word "(disambiguation)" in its title. Please see WP:DAB#NAME: "The title of a disambiguation page is the ambiguous term itself" unless there is a primary topic already using that name. Since there is no article using the name "Twin Towers", that name is preferred for this disambiguation page. Adding "(disambiguation)" to the title serves no purpose. Station1 (talk) 04:56, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the tip Station1, or else i'll be renaming every single disambig-page that exists! :-). Should i (or anyone) remove the move tag on top of the page? Rehman (talk) 05:02, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, happy to help. Since this has been listed at WP:RM, an admin will come along in a few days, either move the page or not, depending on discussion, and remove the tag. Station1 (talk) 05:49, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

oh and by the way this did happen —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.61.221 (talk) 17:19, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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New Articles

I am a student who needs to make a presentation on a country. My country is America, and so I needed something for America. I decided to include the Twin Towers, because that's a major part of America. So I went online and started searching the Twin Towers, but believe it or not all I got was World Trade Center Articles and Videos of the Twin Towers collapsing. The point is, I wanted to make an article on Wikipedia, but I just don't know how. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thedude7195 (talkcontribs) 00:38, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 17 January 2015

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page not moved. Rider ranger47 Talk 16:26, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]


(non-admin closure)

Twin TowersWorld Trade Center List of Twin Towers – I think that the current page "Twin Towers" should be redirected to New York's World Trade Center, because the Twin Towers in Manhattan seem like the primary topic of "Twin Towers". Than create a new page called "List of Twin Towers", which list all the twin buildings in the world. CookieMonster755 (talk) 18:55, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This page would only be moved if a primary topic were identified for the term Twin Towers; that is, one topic more likely to be sought under that name than all others combined, and much more likely than any other topic. I'm not convinced that is the case here; a reader could likely be looking for information on twin towers generally, or one of the other sets of twin towers.--Trystan (talk) 14:34, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
User:Epicgenius why should an ambiguous term redirect to the WTC when in Asia "Twin Towers" refers to another building? In ictu oculi (talk) 19:02, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@In ictu oculi: I never mentioned WTC. I suggested that the article "Twin Towers" have "disambiguation" appended. Epicgenius (talk) 19:32, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
User:Epicgenius no, but the proposer did. Do you want "Twin Towers" to redirect to redirect to Twin Towers (disambiguation), or somewhere else, eg. Twin Towers (Malaysia)? In ictu oculi (talk) 19:47, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@In ictu oculi: As I said above, I will support a move to Twin Towers (disambiguation). Epicgenius (talk) 19:47, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment, obviously there is an issue. Twin Towers should be directed to World Trade Center, its the primary topic of the subject, much more notable than the "Malaysia Twin Towers". The World Trade Center is one of the worst terrorist attacks, and I think that World Trade Center is the primary topic of Twin Towers, regardless of where you live, it was a worldwide tracidey. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CookieMonster755 (talkcontribs) 02:05, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
But New York's WTC may be the most famous use only due to 9/11. No links point here anyway. We have the redirect Twin Towers (NYC) already.

Anyway, going back to the Malaysia point, the term "Twin Towers" is easily confused with Petronas Towers. Epicgenius (talk) 02:32, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:CookieMonster755 User:Epicgenius "most famous use" is not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, PRIMARY does not mean "primary", it means "absolute majority", see the guideline, the shortcut/redirect is misnamed/misleading. The question is; do 60-70% of "Twin Towers" refer to WTC in Books? In ictu oculi (talk) 11:51, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Then we should leave the article title in place, since references to the WTC are not an absolute majority. Epicgenius (talk) 13:33, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 17 April 2023

Twin TowersTwin towers (disambiguation) – There is a clear WP:PTOPIC for the search term "Twin Towers": the two towers that were in the World Trade Center (1973-2001) that were destroyed during the September 11 terrorist attacks. As such, the base article should point to that page, while this disambiguation page should be moved to have "(disambiguation)" in its title. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 01:11, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose. The towers that got destroyed on 9/11 are definitely the primary topic within the US. However, there's a rapidly growing majority of English (Wikipedia) readers who are not from the US, and in their collective memory this event features less prominently. Still, this topic gets the lion's share of the usage, at 60% (830 monthly clickthroughs from the dab vs. 1421 total views [1]), and this will make it a primary topic in some (many?) editors' eyes.
    But there is another consideration as well. The navigational consequences of the proposed primary redirect are: 1) 830 readers will get straight to the article they need skipping the intermediate step of the dab page, 2) the few hundred readers who are looking for other topics with the name will have an extra step added: loading World Trade Center (1973–2001) before clicking through to the dab page, 3) that article will have to get a hatnote added, and that hatnote will take up a line of prominent space on the screens of the over 140,000 readers who view this article [2]. In my view, the benefits of #1 are overshadowed by the costs of #2 and especially #3. – Uanfala (talk) 13:26, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. I'm British and I would have interpreted "Twin Towers" to mean the World Trade Center long before they were destroyed. Clear primary redirect. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:11, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. The oppose seems to be against the very concept of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, which cleanly supports this move as per Necro and the nom Red Slash 21:13, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The oppose is not against the very concept of a primary topic, but just arrives at a different conclusion from yours on whether this article meets the primary topic criteria (WP:P1 and WP:P2). As for the second paragraph of my comment, yes, the reasoning there would apply even to a case of a very strong primary topic. This really shouldn't need stating, but if zealously following the guidelines leads to the encyclopedia become worse, then the guideline shouldn't be followed. WP:PTOPIC, while useful in the majority of cases, doesn't provide a complete, exception-free, guide to 100% of what goes into topic changes. – Uanfala (talk) 21:34, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: There is not a clear WP:PTOPIC, and in no way has this been demonstrated here. The disambiguation page shows a profusion of relevant pages, and searches for "twin towers" are littered by, among other things, references to the Petronas Twin Towers. A scholar search likewise produces a distinct mixed bag, and the relevance of the NYT towers also dims with every passing year. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:22, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There should really be a "Twin towers (architecture)" page too in the mix given both what is apparent in the scholar search and the significance of the architectural motif, but architectural articles are a bit of an area of neglect here. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:30, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Close, but, not the right thing to do. As historic buildings (destroyed 22 years ago, which is becoming long ago, noting the average age of all people is only 30 years), it is better to use, and encourage use, of the actual names. While the buildings don’t have interesting names, 1 WTC, 2 WTC, etc, with 1 WTC now being ambiguous, it is not helpful for have them linked as Twin Towers. The twin towers maybe. Also, there is Petronus, Petronas Twin Towers, which has a claim as an extant “twin towers”. Agree, there is a bit of anti-PrimaryTopic here. Excessive application of PrimaryTopic is a convenience for some, but is a barrier for more, and some editors appear to obsess over application of some “rules” over serving the readers. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:09, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]