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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: Moved to Tall. bd2412 T 18:57, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]



Tall (disambiguation)Tall – "tall" does not usually just refer to human height, it's just as likely to refer to geographic features or buildings or other such things, to a child, a refrigerator is tall, so it could refer to tall furniture 70.24.251.208 (talk) 04:14, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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The more I think about it the more complex it gets: "Tall" as a straightforward adjective means "above average in height", but then there's "five foot tall" too. Adjectives are not sought search terms - anyone at all accustomed to using an encyclopedia would search for "tallness" or "Height", or use a dictionary to find the meaning of the adjective.
Have struck out my words above, and added a couple of entries to the existing dab page, for "A degree of Height" and "A degree of Human height", as a first stab at useful links to those two relevant pages. PamD 19:53, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. I think the best solution is to retarget "tall" to height instead of human height, which is just one example of height. The clear primary meaning of "tall" is an estimator of height, of which human height is merely a subset. A person linking to the term should expect to be taken to an article addressing the dimension for which tallness is significant. bd2412 T 20:27, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. There is no other article with the same word other than "(surname)". "Height" or "human height" doesn't make any difference whatsoever. --George Ho (talk) 08:53, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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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.