Talk:Aparna

Primary topic and page location

Hoping to get thoughts from Uanfala and Some Gadget Geek, since they've both recently been involved in the redirects with Aparna and Aparna (disambiguation). Right now, Aparna redirects to the disambiguation page Aparna (disambiguation). However, the disambiguation page lists Parvati as the primary topic of the term "Aparna". I see in the past that Aparna has redirected at times to Parvati. If Parvati truly is the primary topic for the term "Aparna", then Aparna should redirect to Parvati and Parvati should direct people to the disambiguation page Aparna (disambiguation). However, if there is no primary topic, the disambiguation page should be moved to Aparna, per Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Naming_the_disambiguation_page. Uanfala, based on this edit summary it seems like perhaps the latter is the case, but since there had been some back and forth I wanted to make sure we had consensus before I did any moving. Thanks! -- Natalya 04:54, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this up. I don't really know if "Parvati" is the primary topic here, my inkling is that it isn't. At least that's not the intended referent in the current links to Aparna. There's one general issue though. As is not unusual with Hindu deities, "Aparna" is only one of the dozens common names of Parvati (although not many of them are (yet?) redirects). Names of deities are commonly used as given names (or pseudonyms) and not infrequently also end up as the titles of literary works or films, so sooner or later there's bound to be a dab page for many of them. Having them all redirect to Parvati and placing a hatnote for each single of them would easily lead to hatnote overload. Uanfala (talk) 10:00, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your input, Uanfala. This all makes sense; though there are not many incoming links directly to Aparna (I assume most have been disambiguated already), none of them right now is meant to link to Parvati - all refer to various people. Your point about the many names for any particular Hindu deity is a good one. Let's wait to hear back from Some Gadget Geek, but with the information we currently have, I would generally agree there is no primary topic and the disambiguation page should be moved to Parvati. -- Natalya 16:18, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

@Natalya: and @Uanfala: I agree that "Aparna" is ambiguous as per PRIMARYTOPIC principles, and thus I have boldly tagged Aparna for deletion as per G6 criteria. Seeing that Natalya has admin privileges, I'm sure he or she can take care of the rest and we focus on fixing the DPL's to this page. Cheers, <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk) 22:49, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Excellent; I am glad we all agree. As you can see, I have moved the page. There were ~25 edits at Aparna that I had to move over, so I wanted to make a quick note of reference here about that. There was not a cut-and-paste move from Aparna to Aparna (disambiguation), so there was no straightforward history to merge. The large majority of the edits at Aparna were either redirects or vandalism, which there is no concern about moving over. There were a few edits from when Aparna was briefly treated as a very short (1-sentence) stub referring to another name of Parvati. I couldn't think of a good way/place to merge that edit history, as it seemed to be challenging similar to Wikipedia:Administrators'_guide/Fixing_cut-and-paste_moves#A_troublesome_case, so the best option seemed to be to move over that history as well. I wanted to make a note here since there was some history to the page, though.

As Some Gadget Geek said, all there is to do now is properly fix the incoming links to this disambiguation page. I will also rearrange the entries on the page since there is no primary topic. -- Natalya 23:14, 5 March 2016 (UTC)