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The second purpose of the original WP:RM was to have this redirect to "Quantum leap" although i probably didn't make it too clear. What do other people think? Should this be redirected to the tv series or to the type of quantum physics page? Or even disambig?
Simply south17:16, 11 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Either
Quantum Leap is ambiguous and shouldn't be redirected automatically or it isn't ambiguous and it should just be the TV show. Redirecting it to
quantum leap would consistent with making that article the primary topic for both Quantum Leap and quantum leap.
However, as long as Wikipedia is case sensitive
Quantum Leap and
quantum leap are different articles that do not necessarily need to be disambiguated from each other. I don't think the original move was wise and had I known about it, I would have opposed it. I have no way to get hard statistics, but judging from the size of the pages (two paragraphs vs. several pages) and the frequency of edits (~50 edits in the last year vs. ~50 edits in the last month), I would guess that
Quantum Leap (TV series) is the much more actively searched-for topic.
I was the closing admin, I guess (because I have this on my watchlist
). Yes, you're right, bad citing, but
WP:NC-TV says a similar thing, and then goes on to mention
King of the Hill (TV series). Go figure.
WP:PRECISION is vague as well: "If there is a reasonable chance the reader might have been looking for the other meaning...". With caps in the title, I'd say it's unlikely. The concerns raised here are valid, though; maybe some firmer rules are called for.
Duja►12:53, 22 November 2006 (UTC)reply
My recommendation is to move
Quantum Leap (TV series) here, most certainly. The different capitalization makes it distinct from
quantum leap, and since
Quantum Leap redirects there anyway it doesn't make sense to use the longer title. And a dab page is unnecessary because there are only two articles involved. -
Silence22:22, 14 August 2007 (UTC)reply
I'm in agreement as well. More people who type in Quantum Leap will be looking for the show more then the theory itself so it makes more sense.
Wild ste (
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11:22, 11 May 2008 (UTC)reply
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Unneeded dab
I believe this disambiguation page is unneeded if the two applicable topics are distinguishable by capitalization. Hatnotes on
Atomic electron transition and
Quantum Leap can handle the nav purpose (per
WP:TWODABS—each is the primary for one caps variation). The Sinclair QL, while named after the quantum leap, is not apparently ambiguous with "quantum leap". --
JHunterJ (
talk)
14:29, 27 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Before the February move, the traffic patterns were like this
[1]:
clickstream-enwiki-2024-01.tsv:
Quantum_Leap Quantum_Leap_(2022_TV_series) link 9143 (~20%)
Quantum_Leap Quantum_jump link 195 (~0.4%)
Quantum_Leap Quantum_leap_(disambiguation) link 153 (~0.35%)
Quantum_Leap Paradigm_shift link 51 (~0.1%)
total: 24986 to 60 identified destinations, total incoming views 43768
In March '24, we saw a total of around 4988+10186=15174 incoming views here, and 429 views of the physics redirect,
[2] (I didn't check
all the redirects) and in turn:
clickstream-enwiki-2024-03.tsv:
Quantum_leap Quantum_Leap_(1989_TV_series) link 4942 (~32% / ~63%)
Quantum_leap Quantum_Leap_(2022_TV_series) link 2147 (~14% / ~28%)