Talk:Monument Park

Yankee Stadium

I believe that the article entitled Monument Park should be for the Monument Park at Yankee Stadium, and not a disambiguation page. I do, however, believe that there should be a disambiguation page at Monument Park (disambiguation)

Yes, there are two towns called Monument Park, but both of them are stubs, and the Yankee Stadium Monument Park is world reknown. What do you think?

Milchama 23:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Living just a few miles from Yankee Stadium, I would also have assumed that the only Monument Park in the world was the one in the Bronx. As one often finds in Wikipedia, it's a big world out there, and there's nothing new (or unique) under the sun. I don't see any reason not to have this article serve as a disambiguation page. Alansohn 00:46, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My reasoning is similar to the article titled Yankees. It redirects to New York Yankees although there are other meanings to it. The article titled Yankees does not lead to a disambiguation page, but has a link on the top of the article.

That's how I feel about Monument Park. The most visible entity called Monument Park is the location at Yankee Stadium. Having a link to a disambiguation page on that article, as it currently on top of Monument Park (Yankee Stadium). Plus, the two other Monument Park articles are one line stubs. I don't want to call them "insignificant", but they are not close to the first thing that comes to one's mind when they hear the term Monument Park.

Milchama 01:13, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking as someone in a different country to any of the Monument Parks listed, I was amazed that there was any monument Park other than the one in South Africa. Speak to people in much of the world, and either they will have heard of none of them or will only know the South African one. It was only for the reason that the Yankee Stadium-related article was so much larger that I did not move the Pretoria article to Monument Park. You might also note that there are several articles which lead directly to the Monument Park page, and they are for all three of the different Monument Parks. That alone is sufficient indication of where the disambiguation page should be. In any case, surely a real town takes precedence over a baseball museum in terms of the name of an article, especially when that museum is only known in one country. I'd also like to point you to the first page of google hits for "Monument Park" - only three of those ten hits are for the Yankee Stadium Monument Park - three lead to Colorado, one to South Africa, one to Mississippi, one to the UK, and one to this Wikipedia page. The next ten pages only link one to Yankee Stadium - and the first fifty google hits only have eight of them relating to the stadium. It's quite clear that "Monument Park" means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and it makes perfect sense that it should be the disambiguation page. I'd also like to further note that when I made the page into a disambiguation page, i was only re-doing the page the way it was originally -. if you look at the early history of the page, it was a dab page. Grutness...wha? 05:04, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Grutness - any term which has a number of interpretations of roughly equal weight should automatically assign that title to a disambiguation page. Mind matrix 12:48, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]