Talk:Gut (anatomy): Difference between revisions

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==Suggestions to make this page more informative==

== Requested move 27 December 2015 ==

 

 

[[:Gut (anatomy)]] → {{no redirect|Gastrointestinal tract}} – This article should be moved to "gastrointestinal tract". This page clearly should act as the page that users go to... as it states in the first sentence, "In zoology, the gut, '''also known as the alimentary canal or gastrointestinal tract''' or intestine, is a tube by which bilaterian animals (including humans) transfer food to the digestion organs.

 

*'''Support''' There's certainly a mess of incoming links to Gastrointestinal tract, but this article (gut (anatomy)) is the broadest concept for that term, and getting rid of the parenthetical (anatomy) yields a more natural title. [[User:Plantdrew|Plantdrew]] ([[User talk:Plantdrew|talk]]) 08:20, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

*'''Support''' - more encyclopedic page name with a redirect. [[User:Meatsgains|Meatsgains]] ([[User talk:Meatsgains|talk]])

*'''Support''' Sounds good to me. [[User:Doc James|<span style="color:#0000f1">'''Doc James'''</span>]] ([[User talk:Doc James|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Doc James|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Doc James|email]]) 04:29, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

*'''Support'''. OK, it looks like this is a done deal, but it still doesn't address the [[WP:SPECIFICLINK]] guidance that we should be linking directly to the most specific link covering the relevant topic, rather than the broadest concept for the term. This is what I mean by disambiguation, which admittedly may be a broader concept of that than the classical Wikipedia definition. Most of our coverage is human-related topics, so a lot of links, particularly from articles about human gastrointestinal diseases, ailments, complaints, etc. should link directly to <nowiki>[[human gastrointestinal tract|gastrointestinal tract]]</nowiki>. So, I'll work on that for the next 5 days or so before this closes, assuming I'm allowed to have a highly-linked dab page sitting around for a few days, as I think [[WP:popups]] will help speed the work, ensuring that only appropriate articles have their links fixed. No one has had any problems with the work I've done so far. [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 23:27, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

***I don't know how important this is in the scheme of things, but by that logic one could argue that no links to any {{tl|disambiguation}} page matter, because they are all "merely imprecise". Arguably those matter less, because the format of a dab page often makes it easier to find the desired topic. Depending on how broad the broad topic is and how specific the desired topic is, it can potentially take some searching through the high-level article to find the section with a link to the specific topic. Given the outcome of this, I'm finding that we no longer need to disambiguate _everything_, so I'm leaving the links that aren't specifically concerned with humans as is. [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 02:31, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

***OK, I'm taking a break from this. Been juggling several balls, I suppose it's OK – even necessary – to drop some now and then. In hindsight, this was a summary-style fail; the previous article should never been moved in its entirety. It should have kept the broad-level summary, and only moved the excessive detail about humans to a sub-article about humans. So maybe someone can turn this article back into what it should have been all along. [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 03:10, 29 December 2015 (UTC)