Talk:South African

Requested move 22 February 2020

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) —Nnadigoodluck🇳🇬 09:27, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

South African (disambiguation) → South African – Someone searching for "South African" with an "n" would be specifically looking for topics relating to the country, not the country itself. A WP:PTOPIC redirect to South Africa is unhelpful. feminist (talk) 06:36, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I was testing other country adjectives and it seems that most lead to a dab page. From those I tested, I only found one that didn't - Australian which redirects to Australians (disclosure I tested around 10). --Gonnym (talk) 09:57, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support although there isn't a language with this name like most others there is a redirect to Demographics of South Africa from South African people. Welsh is a good example of the norm but obviously there is Welsh language and Welsh people which there isn't. Still I'm skeptical than the term with the "n" primarily refers to the country its self. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:38, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Incoming links

@Nnadigoodluck: @Feminist: @Gonnym: @Crouch, Swale: It seems that in the eagerness to move the disambiguation page, no one bothered to consider WP:FIXDABLINKS. There are over 1,500 incoming links to this page that need to be corrected to point to the relevant article. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:42, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

R'n'B, I checked. Looks like RussBot (your bot) is fixing it now. Will also try to fix some that are left out. —Nnadigoodluck🇳🇬 03:00, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was only able to fix about 100 by bot; the bot can only fix a link that appears in a context that makes the meaning unambiguous. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:34, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]