Talk:Pamela

primary usage?

At present, Pamela redirects to Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, implying that the novel is considered the Primary Usage. In that case, it gets a note at the top of the dab page, per Wikipedia:Mosdab#Linking_to_a_primary_topic. If we don't think that the novel is the primary usage, then we should move the dab page to Pamela. But the edit which removed the novel from the top of the page left us between these two systems. I reverted it. If editors think that the novel is not the primary usage, please discuss it here. PamD (talk) 20:10, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For info, the article about the book was at Pamela (novel) from at least March 2006, then moved to Pamela in July 2006, then to Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded in Jan 2007. PamD (talk) 20:20, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It appears to me that "Pamela" is first of all a name, and then several other things. A google search gives the Pamela skype application, links to Pamela Anderson, then the novel, then the astrophysical project. In the absence of evidence that the novel is the primary usage, I think it would be best to have Pamela be a disambiguation page. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 03:57, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sidney invented the name, but Richardson popularized it. Pamela is an extremely famous book and there is nothing else that can contend against it. Ottava Rima (talk) 15:41, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- Agree with Ottava. Certainly Pamela the name can't compete with the novel Pamela as primary usage, not in a month of Sundays. The name isn't famous, not even a little bit. (Sorry, PamD.) Bishonen | talk 16:29, 8 February 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks, but no need to apologise: I take an interest in the page for obvious reasons, but am perfectly happy to have the book continue to be the primary topic - perhaps I didn't make it clear that I was reverting a change which went half way away from that. And Google is not a valid measure of relative importance of different uses of the word, especially when it's old-fashioned classic literature versus celebrities and skype! PamD (talk)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:53, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pamela (disambiguation) → Pamela – Rago (talk) 13:50, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - same arguments as were made last time: the novel is the primary usage. PamD 16:20, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support; I see no evidence for the claim that the novel is primary over the name. Powers ^T 19:22, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support. If you google Pamela -wikipedia, nothing comes up about the novel. It's different people named "Pamela," especially Pamela Anderson. Kauffner (talk) 09:26, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support The novel now seems rather obscure, although it may have been well known in its day. PatGallacher (talk) 14:28, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
at least the name Pamela (name) is more important than the novel. Rago (talk) 19:47, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.