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There seems to have been a bit of a slow-moving edit war on this. Perhaps it would be constructive to discuss it here, rather than just flat statements in edit summaries. The essays WP:PT or User:Jwy/Primary Topics: Why and Which could be sensible places to start. I just spent some little time altering about 80 links to Churchill. For the great majority I simply substituted Winston Churchill, but there were several cases where it needed to be one of the Churchill placenames. There remain about 9 inward links to Churchill from article space, which are cases where I felt unable or disinclined to interfere. It would be encouraging if editors with strong feelings on this topic could do something to sort them out. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 21:15, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you'd like the disambiguation page to be the base name (i.e., change the current primary topic to no primary topic), probably a requested move of Churchill (disambiguation) will be the best approach. (And the {{dn}} tag can be used when you can't figure out which way to dab.) -- JHunterJ (talk) 21:32, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I addressed a few of the others. The ones that remain appear to be correctly linking to Churchill as a redirect to Winston, and as long as it is a redirect, they don't need to be fixed. Rather than simply substituting [[Winston Churchill]], minor edits should have probably substituted [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]], depending on the context. -- JHunterJ (talk) 21:46, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
My statement above "I simply substituted Winston Churchill" was inaccurate, because over-simplified. In fact I did generally substitute [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]].
I've re-edited the Churchill references in Broadclyst and A13 motorway (Switzerland) in a way which seems more helpful. The latter is an appalling example of what happens when someone uses automatic translation from the German without understanding it.
I've made the move request.
SamuelTheGhost (talk) 14:35, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I made the move request in response to JHunterJ's suggestion above, thinking he was trying to be helpful. The only consequence was to allow him a more formal place to express his disagreement, and the added comments of a couple of editors, neither of whom has ever edited the relevant pages. What a waste of time. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 13:40, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was helpful. I disagreed with the change in the primary topic. Going through the Wikipedia process for determining such a change enabled both of us to find out which of our individual views had consensus. I do not understand why you think that either following Wikipedia processes or soliciting additional input (even from editors who have previously been uninvolved) is a waste of time. -- JHunterJ (talk) 17:01, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress

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There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Churchill (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 21:02, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]