Talk:Passchendaele

This page was nominated at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion on 2009 August 21. The result of the discussion was disambiguate.

Battle

Can anyone provide any evidence that there was a Battle of Passchendaele on October 10-29, 1918 or that any of the 1918 battles in Flanders were known by any side as the Battle of Passchendaele? British accounts say that Plumer's Second Army was in possession of Passchendaele Ridge by 29 September during a phase known as the "Battle of Ypres 1918" (28 September to 2 October). The next offensive didn't start until 14 October (Courtai Offensive). If there is no evidence of another battle with this name, I think this page should just redirect to Passchendaele seeing as that is where the community has decided the main article should be, and that is what most of the things linking to this page should be linking to. Geoff/Gsl 03:19, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Redirect/Disambiguation

Copied from Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2009 August 21--Labattblueboy (talk) 13:54, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the discussion was closed as moot: valid dab page has overwritten the redirect. (non-admin close) B.Wind (talk) 00:36, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Passchendaele → Passendale (links to redirect)

Redirect. Passchendaele is the English name of a Belgian town Passendale. The reason for possible contention is that Passchendaele is currently redirected to the Battle of Passchendaele, a World War I battle that took place in proximity of the town. The redirect previously directed searchers to the battle page instead of that of the town. Labattblueboy (talk) 18:05, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Either target the battle or leave it as a dab page. In Canada, the battle is almost certainly the desired target, unless they want the film. 76.66.192.144 (talk) 06:45, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: there is also another use on Wikipedia for the Iron Maiden song Paschendale. Peter Fleet (talk) 11:15, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Disam page - clear justification for this to remain a disam page as it is currently, the redirects should not be restored. BritishWatcher (talk) 13:03, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The page was never a disam page, that was apparently done while discussion here was still taking place, so I have reverted it until discussion has come to a resolution.--Labattblueboy (talk) 13:24, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FYI: There are currently just under 100 links to Passchendaele. The links in the pages for the German divisions are meant to go to the battle, so I will fix that. The remainder are referring to the town (Ex. place of death of Victoria Cross winners). None were referring to the song and I corrected those that were referring to the film and sent them to Passchendaele (film). This being said, I would not be opposed to it becoming a disam page instead of a redirect.--Labattblueboy (talk) 13:24, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Should either redirect to the battle or be a disambiguation page. older ≠ wiser 14:09, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Disambiguation is the safest option here and will make it easiest to avoid wrong links. — Kusma ^talk 16:21, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as the archive of an RfD nomination. Please do not modify it.