Talk:RI

On Ri as a Japanese creature

No search I've done has produced any further information besides what this article states (Google search results in about 9 or 10 reproductions of this page, in fact. People sure love to rip off Wikipedia ^_^). Can I get a source or something? --(Unsigned comment)

Requesting a link be inserted

"The two-letter English word referring to an aquatic creature in Japanese mythology described as a mix between a human and a jellyfish"

Having a disambiguation page is only useful if you can actually go to the page that has the information you're looking for. Why is there no link here to the creature from Japanese mythology? How do I get to that page? This is exactly why removing those ugly red links is a bad idea: the red links remind people that an article still needs to be written. Even if the page on Ri in Japanese mythology doesn't exist yet, it would be nice to at least see a red link, rather than having to suffer the frustration of thinking that there may actually be an article that we can't get to because someone forgot to provide the link for it.

Could someone please edit the page so that a link appears, even if that means it has to be an inactive one? --Corvun 12:01, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Like I was saying all that while back, I'm having a hard time finding this creature -anywhere- outside wikipedia. Admittedly, it's pretty hard to search for just "ri" but if one includes "japanese" or "mythology" you just get wikipedia and mirrors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk • contribs)

I've removed the "Japanese monster" entry. If anyone ever finds any evidence for such a creature (I mean any evidence that the word "ri" was ever used to describe a jellyfish monster, not evidence that jellyfish monsters exist ;) they can make an article and add a link here at that time. --Quuxplusone (talk) 05:26, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

"Ri" is a challenging word to Google for, because it's so short, and because it comes up so often as an abbreviation. The state of Rhode Island is particularly frustrating here: try and see how many search results you will get that combine Rhode Island, Japanese, and jellyfish in a completely irrelevant context. Nonetheless, after attempting several convoluted searches, I did come up with a potentially independent source, a page that otherwise seems to contain well-researched info about Japanese mythological creatures: Japanese Spirits/Ghosts, Monsters Archive. As just a single source, this is not very encouraging, but I will continue to search for more. Freederick (talk) 13:53, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

statemaster.com/encyclopedia/RI . It seems to me that this site has not copied the content from wikipedia because I cannot remember the wikipedia disambig template ever reading those lines it does there. (you'll have to insert the link in your own browser since wikipedia doesn't allow the link) okay nevermind that "source". [1] This also mentions strange sea creatures that resembled humans, but unlikely related to the Japanese creature. I'm not expert, though, so I'll just put it in here. Mallerd (talk) 12:30, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Ri (singer)

Just wanted to note that there is a Russian/Ukrainian singer and model called Ri. She has her article on the Russian wikipedia: ru:Ри (певица). 81.68.255.36 (talk) 12:17, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Requested move 9 January 2016

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 10:15, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

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RI (disambiguation) → RI – Rhode Island is not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for RI. This should be the base like AZ, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, KY, MA, MD, MN, MO, NC, ND, NE, NH, NV, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY. Sawol (talk) 18:29, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

• Support per nom In ictu oculi (talk) 22:50, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
• Support i found in the earlier edit history of the page RI there were conflict of editors who arguing RI refers to Republic of Indonesia or Rhode Island. Jiangyu911 (talk) 02:38, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
• Support: a US abbreviation is not the primary topic in this international encyclopedia. PamD 12:24, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

This proposal is also a proposal concerning the redirect RI, so I have flagged it up at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2016_January_10#RI. Not sure just what the protocol is in a case like this: clearly the discussion needs to be in one and only one place. PamD 12:28, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Pam, thanks for thinking of us over at RfD, but such notifications typically aren't necessary. Pages are sometimes moved as a result of RfD, but if a redirect is being moved over as a result of a move, that's more just a question of the move. Regardless of how this discussion goes, there's going to be one page title and one redirect. --BDD (talk) 17:32, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

OK, it just seemed that the matter under discussion is "Is there a Primary Topic for RI?", so it ought to be coming from that direction. Have made a note at Talk:RI. PamD 17:37, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

• Support – postal code as PT? Weird. Dicklyon (talk) 03:47, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
• Support but will probably need a great deal of cleanup post-move. Tiggerjay (talk) 17:10, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

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