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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 17:54, 19 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Tripolitania → Tripolitania (region) – Not the WP:PTOPIC. For example, the article Ottoman Tripolitania has twice the number of hits. New name consistent with e.g. Syria (region) and Palestine (region). Onceinawhile (talk) 14:14, 11 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
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To clarify, this would also mean Tripolitania (disambiguation) → Tripolitania. Onceinawhile (talk) 20:26, 11 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi@Srnec: Over many years the scope of the article had become a confused mix between the specific modern post-Italian province and the general varied-definition historical region. The confusion likely came about because we were missing an article on the modern province, so I created it at Tripolitania (province), moving some but not all of the related text. This article was, is, and should remain a broad-concept article about the region and its related but widely-varied historical definitions, as per WP:DABCONGEO.
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The nub of this debate so far seems to be whether a broad-concept article should always sit at the base name, even if it is materially less popular as a topic versus the individually-defined related articles. ModernDayTrilobite points out above that it wouldn’t be appropriate for the broad-concept article to sit at the base name if that base name is also the name of a country. We could make other such exceptions I am sure, making it all very complicated. Hence I advocate for a simpler interpretation – if, despite base title advantage, a broad-concept article doesn’t end up being the most viewed topic, then it probably shouldn’t sit at the base name. That would be consistent with the WP:BCA guideline which has a foundational assumption that
…if the primary meaning of a term proposed for disambiguation is a broad concept…
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Onceinawhile (talk) 12:31, 13 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
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It doesn't work for history articles. If period A is the most popular in the history of X, it doesn't get to sit at "History of X". So the question is, is that what this is? It certainly seems to be what it is to me: a history of Tripolitania article, since the term refers to human geography. Srnec (talk) 01:49, 14 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
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