--BDD (talk) 18:00, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- {{no redirect|1 = Sankoh }} → :Foday Sankoh (talk · links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sankoh&action=history history] · [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews?start=2020-04-27&end=2020-05-26&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Sankoh stats]) [ Closure: {{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|(@subpage)|[{{fullurl:Sankoh|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Sankoh closed as keep}}}} keep]/[{{fullurl:Sankoh|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Sankoh closed as retarget}}}} retarget]/[{{fullurl:Sankoh|action=delete&wpReason={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Sankoh closed as delete}}&wpMovetalk=1}} delete]}} ]
The target has the rather clunky hatnote: "Sankoh" redirects here. For other people named Sankoh, see these search results. In the absence of a surname page, this redirect should be deleted to encourage article creation and allow uninterrupted Search. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:57, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
- Keep. Googling the term "Sankoh" indicates that Foday Sankoh is by far WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "Sankoh", so redirect should still point to that article. I just now created a surname page Sankoh (surname), and changed the hatlink at Foday Sankoh to suggest the new surname page (instead of search results) for other uses. So this issue is solved, I think. —Lowellian (reply) 08:52, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
- It's worse than that. Foday Sankoh is - for no good reason that I can see - being treated as WP:PTOPIC and Sankoh as WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT. Sankoh (disambiguation) exists, and despite its title is a pure {{tl|surname}} page.
:Retarget Sankoh to Sankoh (disambiguation), then WP:ROBIN swap those two pages (per both WP:INTDAB and WP:PRECISE) and categorise the surname page correctly. Narky Blert (talk) 08:57, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
::Hi, your comment was posted at nearly the same time I posted my comment above, so I think you missed my comment, so I'll recap it: Googling the term "Sankoh" indicates that Foday Sankoh is by far WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "Sankoh", so redirect should still point to that article. Just minutes before you posted, I newly created "Sankoh (disambiguation)" in response to this RFD to solve the request for a surname page to fix a poor hatlink. But yes, as it turns out, all the entries on the list are currently surnames, so I've moved "Sankoh (disambiguation)" to "Sankoh (surname)". —Lowellian (reply) 09:17, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
::: {{u|Lowellian}}, are you saying that Sankoh is the common name mononym for Foday Sankoh, or is it more like Trump where Foday Sankoh is for now the most well known of the bunch? AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 20:35, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
::::The latter. "Sankoh" is not a mononym, but it usually refers to "Foday Sankoh", like "Merkel" usually refers to (and redirects to) Angela Merkel, "Bolsonaro" usually refers to (and redirects to) Jair Bolsonaro, "Sarkozy" usually refers to (and redirects to) Nicolas Sarkozy, etc. "Trump" doesn't redirect to Donald Trump because the word has the common other meaning of Trump (card games), but there is no other such common meaning for "Sankoh". —Lowellian (reply) 20:53, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
:::::Things like Google hits and pageviews give extremely unreliable measures of relative notability; see WP:DETERMINEPRIMARY. I've just put an article up for WP:AFD which had (count 'em!) 3,622 views in the last 30 days: an unreferenced article from 2016 about an utterly non-notable 1964 film. It is very rare that a surname has a WP:PTOPIC. Famous names like Milton, Shelley, Dvorak and Nimitz are DAB or name pages. Narky Blert (talk) 17:43, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
::::::Milton, Shelley, Dvorak, and Nimitz are DAB pages because there are multiple meanings of similar notability for each of those names. That is not the case with "Sankoh": Foday Sankoh is much more notable than all other individuals named Sankoh. Google "Sankoh", and you get page after page of results for Foday Sankoh rather than any other Sankoh. —Lowellian (reply) 03:13, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- Comment from nom: we now have a good solution with a surname page which is fine by me. We don't need a Sankoh (disambiguation) redirect though so if {{re|Lowellian}} could WP:G7 it then that would be tidy. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 14:12, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
- Keep I agree that Foday Sankoh is primary, and with the cleanup mentioned by Shhhnotsoloud (above), we should be good to go. --Bejnar (talk) 16:39, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
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