Talk:EPA (disambiguation)

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Requested move

The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was No consensus for move; also, no particularly strong arguments or sources were presented to justify the move. Parsecboy (talk) 13:21, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

EPA (disambiguation) → EPA — EPA is important enough to be a primary dab page. — -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 01:44, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment. Applicable previous discussion (with controversial close) at Talk:Environmental Protection Agency. Please show evidence that the current redirect is not the primary topic. I've restored the redirect to its original target until one can be decided upon through this discussion. Dekimasuよ! 02:18, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support The primary topic of EPA arguably is not United States Environmental Protection Agency but rather Environmental Protection Agency, which itself is a dab page. --Una Smith (talk) 04:38, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That Environmental Protection Agency is a dab page is also a problem. The primary topic for Environmental Protection Agency is also the U.S. agency, and that article should probably be at Environmental Protection Agency, since that is the most commonly used and recognized name for that agency. --Born2cycle (talk) 05:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Aervanath (talk) 08:40, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Current redirect is US-centric, but in the USA, EPA unqualified does mean the US agency. Best solution is for EPA to be a dab page. Andrewa (talk) 11:24, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support as per above US-centric reason cited above. --Natural R_X 17:03, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I looked over EPA (disambiguation) and all those other uses don't come close to the U.S. agency in usage. If you google for EPA, most hits are for the U.S. agency; no other use gets any kind of coverage. If the U.S. Agency is not the primary topic for EPA, then there is no such thing as a primary topic. --Born2cycle (talk) 05:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- Although I agree with you and oppose this move based on the term's primary use, the caps are probably counterproductive. Dekimasuよ! 06:12, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Very strong oppose. The (U.S.) Environmental Protection Agency is without doubt the primary topic here... I couldn't find a single hit without great effort for any other usage. Omnibus (talk) 02:40, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

support let's treat all the national Environment Protection Agencies alike and have them occur on a dab page. Users will then pick the one they are interested in.Jasy jatere (talk) 14:56, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- It doesn't seem necessary to treat them all alike when one is referred to more often than all the others combined. That implies that all uses of "EPA" aren't, in fact, alike. Dekimasuよ! 23:59, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I'm against the US centric redirect. EPA stands for a variety of organizations. Googling is not the best way to know how EPA is used outside the US (Google is based in the US, isn't it?). And then again, Google search results for EPA provide a link to ENGLISH POOL ASSOCIATION at the TOP of the list. This is why I'm convinced that redirecting EPA to the US agency is very misleading and inconvenient for Wikipedia users outside the US. Denghu (talk) 06:57, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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