Talk:TSA (disambiguation)

Enough with South Park already

It's not an organization, it's not notable, just a one-off plot device, and it violates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Abbreviations.2C_initials_and_acronyms .--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 12:27, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

How precisely does it violate WP:DABABBREV? For reference, here is the current text:

o not add articles to abbreviation or acronym disambiguation pages unless the target article defines the acronym or abbreviation. If an abbreviation is notable and verifiable, but not mentioned on the target article, consider adding it to the target article and then adding the entry to the disambiguation page. In particular, don't include people and other things simply because of their initials, unless those initials have been widely used. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is widely known as JFK, and so it is included; however, Marilyn Monroe was never commonly known as "MM", nor was A. A. Milne known as "AA" (or "AAM").

So let's see, does the target article define the acronym or abbreviation? Yep. Is there any other reason listed that would exclude inclusion? Nope. older ≠ wiser 12:45, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

The MOS dab pages are poorly enough written that I haven't tried to sort out whether the entry belongs or not, but this edit summary has problems that I hope will not recur. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:28, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 26 May 2022

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: moved. Consensus Transportation Security Administration is the primary topic. TSA changed to a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 22:17, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

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TSA → TSA (disambiguation) – TSA should redirect to Transportation Security Administration, which is the primary topic, per WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT. About ninety-six percent of outgoing page views are going to the U.S. government agency. See also: ATF, FBI, CIA, IRS. See disclaimer. Schierbecker (talk) 01:57, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

• Support. I'm a European and the U.S agency is still the only thing I commonly recognize as "TSA". I don't see any other household name in the long list of dab page items. No such user (talk) 12:17, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose - I'm not seeing any evidence for Transportation Security Administration being the WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT. The disambiguation page had 13,053 views over 2021, the Transportation Security Administration page had 190,491 views, and all the other pages had 481,533 views. Given that Transportation Security Administration is getting less than one-third of the views of all the pages on the disambiguation page I do not believe it is WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the term. It may be the primary topic in the US but it isn't necessarily elsewhere. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 06:23, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
• Support The WikiNav data shows that the vast majority of people on this DAB page are trying to get to the Transportation Security Administration. How is the agency not primary when 95% of people searching for the TSA are trying to get to the agency? The entire point of declaring something the primary topic is to avoid inconveniencing vast majorities like those 95%. Page view evidence isn't nearly as strong as WikiNav data (if available), since many of the pageviews could have come from directly searching the full names of the TSAs. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 19:50, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose. Far too many TSAs on the list for there to be a viable primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:47, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
• Support. The number of TSAs on the list is not a direct factor in determining PRIMARYTOPIC. What matters is the relative likelihood of each use being the one being sought by someone searching with TSA. The wikinav data per nom and others is definitive. —В²C ☎ 13:09, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
• Support per B2C. The distribution of total pageviews for all pages listed on the dab is a relatively weak signal here, because it fails to account for the fact that these topics are referred to by the abbreviation "TSA" at different rates. The next-most-popular article on the dab page is The Scout Association. But how often is that association actually referred to as "TSA"? That abbreviation appears in the title of zero of the 151 cited sources in the article, and 0 times in the article proper. By comparison, "TSA" appears 351 times in Transportation Security Administration, including in the majority of the cited sources. It's a huge discrepancy. The wikinav data does account for this, because it tells us what readers are actually looking for when they search for "TSA". Colin M (talk) 19:46, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Showiecz (talk) 22:26, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
• Comment; I almost closed this (as moved) but I think I can be considered involved because of the close I performed on ATF. The same reasons that motivated my close there are also true here, and the close should be the same, as well. Red Slash 19:11, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
• Support Per the WikiNav data provided -- clear outcome to benefit reader navigation.--Yaksar (let's chat) 05:13, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.