Talk:Bury
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I assume that bury is cognate with the German burg. Can anyone confirm this? 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. Dekimasuよ! 09:16, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
– 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. Crouch, Swale (talk) 06:23, 11 August 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. Dekimasuよ! 19:17, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support and agree there's no clear primary topic. ╠╣uw [talk] 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. 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. Crouch, Swale (talk) 07:57, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support. I also agree there is no clear primary topic here. Rreagan007 (talk) 02:54, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support - No clear primary topic.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 03:48, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
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 fix all resulting mis-directed links. Thanks, 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. 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. Crouch, Swale (talk) 07:51, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
- Seven of the links were for Bury F.C. (though Bury is its common metonym). I've fixed those. I also would have opposed the move had I been aware of the discussion. Certes (talk) 10:18, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
- I just fixed 3 that were for Bury St Edmunds. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:44, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
- Seven of the links were for Bury F.C. (though Bury is its common metonym). I've fixed those. I also would have opposed the move had I been aware of the discussion. Certes (talk) 10:18, 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. Crouch, Swale (talk) 07:51, 21 August 2018 (UTC)