Talk:Shia (disambiguation)

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There seems to be some edit-warring over whether

What edit war? The last time the

Shia article was edited was ten days ago, and that was just reverting a pair of persistent vandals. --Kralizec! (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Looking at the edit history, it seemed there had been a couple of attempts to redirect the page, which had been reverted (not necessarily within the last few days). However, the editor doing it had not bothered to actually create a disambiguation page, and it certainly would be a mistake to lose the disambiguation content entirely. --Russ (talk) 13:48, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

While I am not sure I would call two edits from a month ago by a grumpy IP an

Shia is the correct location for the disambiguation page as this spot is not already occupied by an article. --Kralizec! (talk) 13:58, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply

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OK, fine, "edit war" was too strong. And I agree that if there is no primary topic, the current name of the disambiguation page is correct. The point on which I was hoping to generate some discussion is whether

primary topic for this title. --Russ (talk) 14:16, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Ah, you mean to redirect

Just do it! --Kralizec! (talk) 14:31, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply

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I would support that, now it's on

WP:RM; but I have no objection to letting the usual few days pass first to see if anybody cares. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:35, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply

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