Talk:ASA

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Opening comments[edit]

Would it not make sense to combine this page with ASA? three links could easily be incorporated into the ASA disambiguation page. Or move ASA to here, either would work.70.49.36.110 23:23, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Indeed. However, it may be too onerous to find all the links into this page and to update them. As well, in the future people may end up re-creating this page... Instead, I chose to keep both pages, using ASA for the related initialisms and Asa for names. ppblais 03:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)


The article is too much US-centric! Do you think that all the things in the world are divided into 2 groups: "US" and "non-US"? Why don't you use "UK" and "non-UK" or "China" and "non-China" ? Needs to be rewritten. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.169.197.100 (talk) 10:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. I came to this talk page to make precisely that point, but I see that you have already done so eloquently. I'll fix it. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:11, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. 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 proposal was do not move. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:01, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Request move of this page to "ASA (disambiguation)".

This will allow "ASA" to redirect to "Aspirin". Also request a disamb. marker back to "ASA (disambiguation)" for other uses. ASA is well understood throughout much of the world to refer to aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), while the other uses of ASA are not nearly as well known. Facts707 (talk) 20:40, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support most common usage is aspirin, most commonly recognized usage is aspirin. 70.29.213.241 (talk) 07:34, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - as Tassedethe, no evidence that ASA is primarily used to refer to aspirin. In my experience it is not. Knepflerle (talk) 15:00, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • WP guideline WP:PRIMARYTOPIC is the guideline that should be applied here. It says <quote>When there is a well-known primary topic for an ambiguous term, name or phrase, much more used than any other topic covered in Wikipedia to which the same word(s) may also refer (significantly more commonly searched for and read than other meanings), then that term or phrase should either be used for the title of the article on that topic or redirect to that article.</quote> I would think "significantly more" would be over 50% overall and 15 points ahead of the runner-up; or 35-50% overall and 20 points ahead. (Fictious eg: 35% for "orange the fruit" and 10% for "orange the color" would give "orange the fruit" the redirect for "orange".) In this case, ~60% of the market and 35 points ahead of the runner-up is "significantly more". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.50.82.130 (talk) 13:37, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. ASA is ambiguous and there is clearly no primary use. Just because aspirin may in fact be acetylsalicylic acid which can also be know as ASA is not a reason to change this into a redirect. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:13, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. 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.