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Nomination of Ancient tree for deletion

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Please slow down

Hi! Your work here is needed and appreciated, but you need to go more slowly and learn more about editing before you charge into making whole new articles or dab pages. Since I specialize in disambiguation pages, that's where I've run across your edits the most. Please carefully read WP:DAB and MOS:DAB before trying again to make new dab pages. Right now, your eagerness is creating messes that other editors have to clean up. Thanks. — Gorthian (talk) 02:21, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

I was going more on examples for guidance, I saw this Precipitation (disambiguation) which did seem to indicate several related options were valid. The reason I put them was: i think there's also a guideline that a DAB should be more than 2 entries. Is that generally less important? I would rather see a 2 item DAB than one of the pages assumed to be 'the main use'.. because they dont alert people to ambiguity when linked. My concern was to ensure that cloud system would never be an erroneous redirect ... and if I just made something with 2 entries, someone else would come along and say "sorry we dont want DABs for just 2 options" MfortyoneA (talk) 02:32, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Load bearing

This is an adjective and a partial-title match, which are strongly discouraged on dab pages. The term "load bearing" cannot substitute for any of the article names you have listed. It's better as a redirect, but it probably should be deleted outright.

It looks as if you still haven't read MOS:DAB or WP:DAB. Please hold off on making more dab pages until you understand them better. — Gorthian (talk) 01:10, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

then what do we do here? Surely load bearing going to load-bearing wall is far too specific, whilst conversely[REDACTED] should have somewhere to point at for load bearing. I have assembled some information into one place that can help us improve this. It would surely be wrong to point it at a "structural engineering" article because it's also got uses in personal gear; Could it be a simple glossary definition somewhere? MfortyoneA (talk) 01:13, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

It's basically a WP:DICDEF and not suitable for an encyclopedic article. It is a term that describes something else. Would someone really get confused between "load-bearing arch" and "Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment"? Dab pages are about words that get confused with one another, not about what they mean. An example is "Mercury", which by itself can mean an element, a mythical god, a planet, a car, etc. "Mercury thermometer" is not going to be confused with "mercury". Do you see what I mean? — Gorthian (talk) 01:27, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

ok I see what you mean and I remember reading somewhere 'its not a search index', i can see here what I'm trying to do is encode a search index. Is there a 'valid'way to do that within the[REDACTED] rules. MfortyoneA (talk) 01:33, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

The problem (IMO) is a simple term like load bearing is easily mis-linked; at least if there is a DAB, it will assist people in finding the right link eventually. Yet it seems like there should be a way, somehow, to encode in wikipedia: "what is load bearing?" (what is the common meaning between load-bearing gear and load-bearing wall, load-bearing capacity (soil), and in turn the ability to find those) MfortyoneA (talk) 01:22, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

What you're talking about is an article about "load bearing", not a dab page. — Gorthian (talk) 01:28, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

I think that people shouldn't be linking to "load bearing" at all. Presumably, the adjective is followed by a noun in an article, so they should be linking to load bearing xxxx and not load bearing xxxx.— Gorthian (talk) 01:32, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

i did just go and change the one place that I found it "blah blah walls with blah blah ] .."MfortyoneA (talk)

I notice there is wiktionary entry, wikt:load-bearing - is it valid to redirect to a wiktionary link? (again i'm thinking it should be possible to encode *something* that prevents error - instead of leaving[REDACTED] in a state where an error could easily be made in future.) MfortyoneA (talk) 01:36, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

>>" Presumably, the adjective is followed by a noun in an article" .. not so in the example I found: see building material#Gypcrete. It was followed by a comma in a list of adjectives. That did infact refer to a wall, but can you see how the error happened? ... hence why it would be nice to encode something to prevent MfortyoneA (talk) 01:39, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict)I can't keep up with you! :-D I was just going to say that "load bearing" could be a WP:Soft redirect to Wiktionary, using the {{Wiktionary redirect}} template. However, this is not a decision to be made unilaterally. You might bring it up on Talk:Load bearing, and if you get no response there in a few days, try redirects for discussion to get consensus on what to do with it. — Gorthian (talk) 01:42, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

ok thanks MfortyoneA (talk) 01:43, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

I see further scope for ambiguity load bearing capacity, which has a page for a specific term about soil, but I've found the phrase used in relation to piles and webbing (maybe that would be another term for a wiktionary link, and maybe the soil article could be renamed) MfortyoneA (talk) 01:53, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

indeed I just found California bearing ratio which had the exact error I thought would happen. It's an article referring to load bearing capacity of soil, and it had a link to load bearing (which was 'wall') MfortyoneA (talk) 01:53, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

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any ideas what to do about tail boom (see 'what links here). I found it as a link to 'twin boom aircraft', whilst dealing with articles on 'helicopter'. Is this another case best handled with a 'soft redirect'(wiktionary) .. it still seems a shame not to be able to describe or link this concept within[REDACTED] itself MfortyoneA (talk) 03:31, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks; I have re-written the article using my own words, I hope this addresses the issue. MfortyoneA (talk) 19:47, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

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Flood pulse

Hi MfortyoneA. I see you made a small edit at Flood pulse concept. I am struggling to understand what exactly "pulse" refers to. Any help? Thanks. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 19:55, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

No idea, sorry, I just made a link to 'oxygen deficiency', what I sometimes do is pick a term, then look for instances in[REDACTED] that could get a more specific link to it ... I was focussed on 'oxygen deficiency / hypoxia' etc when i made that link MfortyoneA (talk) 21:56, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

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