Talk:ALF
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[edit] Sitcom
The sitcom-specific stuff here needs to be merged with lowercase Alf and moved to ALF (TV show), ALF (sitcom), or ALF (alien) and this page needs to redirect to Alf which disambiguates between Animal Liberation Front, Alf (mythology) and ALF (TV show)/sitcom/alien. Geoffrey 01:39 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- I suggest you get to it then, matey!!! quercus robur
- I think I have cleaned up all of these that I am sure of JimmB 03:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Animal Liberation Front
I've redirected this to the Animal Liberation Front, as that's by far the most common one, and I've put a disambiguation link at the top of that page. SlimVirgin (talk) 18:02, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
- No, it's not the primary use of the term. Yes, an unrestrained Google search returns Animal Liberation Front as the first hist, but it has many uses as the search return shows. Whether or not the term has been Google bombed or not, I don't know. Most people have no idea who the Animal Liberation Front are, but depending on their age and television habits, they might be able to recall ALF (TV series). Also notice that if one searches Google with a string, the first hit returned is a photo of ALF, the alien. I think the page history clearly demonstrates that there is no consensus for the primary meaning, so the term should redirect to the dab page. —Viriditas | Talk 09:04, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- Furthermore, Wikipedia:Disambiguation describes this problem. "When the primary meaning for a term or phrase is well known (indicated by a majority of links in existing articles, and by consensus of the editors of those articles), then use that topic for the title of the main article, with a disambiguation link at the top. Where there is no such consensus, there is no primary topic page." What links here as of this comment is as follows: [1]
* Situation comedy * List of terrorist organisations * List of fictional cats * Saturday morning cartoon * Talk:Alf Garnett * Wikipedia:TLAs from AAA to DZZ * Talk:Earth Liberation Front * David Ogden Stiers * Talk:Animal Liberation Front * List of people from Michigan * WRAL-TV * Chappelle's Show * Masters of the Universe * Sesamstraße * User:The Iconoclast * List of Sega Master System games * List of catch phrases * User:Byrial/Double redirects * User:Xphile2868 * List of acronyms and initialisms: A * Len Carlson * Adult puppeteering * User talk:Jayson Virissimo * User:Bonzo the Moon Man * User:Jpblo * Talk:Rod Coronado * Saban * Dan Hennessey * User:JSmethers/TLA/A * User talk:PeterZed * Talk:Britches (monkey) * User:Spinoza's God * User:Crashnburn1988 * List of fictional crossovers * User:*Max* * Lewis Arquette * User:Killer Panda * User:Schmierer/Aktivitäten * Talk:Anti-psychiatry/Archive 2
Removing user, talk, and Wikipedia pages and adding name of intended link:
* Situation comedy - ALF (TV series) * List of terrorist organisations - Animal Liberation Front * List of fictional cats - ALF (TV series) * Saturday morning cartoon - ALF (TV series) * David Ogden Stiers - ALF (TV series) * List of people from Michigan - ALF (TV series) * WRAL-TV - ALF (TV series) * Chappelle's Show - ALF (TV series) * Masters of the Universe - ALF (TV series) * Sesamstraße - ALF (TV series) * List of Sega Master System games - ALF (Sega game) based on ALF (TV series) * List of catch phrases - ALF (TV series) * List of acronyms and initialisms: Africa Leadership Forum, Alien Life Form (ALF (TV series)), Animal Liberation Front * Len Carlson - ALF (TV series) * Adult puppeteering - ALF (TV series) * Saban - ALF (TV series) * Dan Hennessey - ALF (TV series) * List of fictional crossovers - ALF (TV series) * Lewis Arquette - ALF (TV series)
Non-linked instances of "ALF" can be found here. Based upon Wikipedia:Disambiguation and the above links, the primary redirect should be ALF (TV series). Therefore, I am changing this redirect accordingly. I've also updated List of terrorist organisations. —Viriditas | Talk 03:50, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
- After further research, paying closer attention to WP:NCON, WP:DAB, and WP:NCA ("In many cases, though, there is no decision to make, because the acronym has several expansions; meaning that the articles have to be at the spelled-out phrases and the acronym has to be a disambiguation article disambiguating amongst them"), I've come to the conclusion that a redirect to the dab page is more appropriate. —Viriditas | Talk 07:13, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
