Talk:Three Mile Island (disambiguation)

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• There's a TMI 3 miles from the confluence of the Allagash River and the St. John's River in Maine near Canadian border, presumably a landmark for canoers and kayakers. Looks to me as if it's in the Allagash, but more suitable map needs to be checked.
  
• There's an apparently dam-drowned TMI -- "Three Mile Island is a designated as a historical island and is located in Kentucky USA." -- in the Kentucky River, apparently pretty close to the dam.
  
• There's also Three Island Crossing in Idaho, on the Snake river and I84 by Glenns Ferry, and an eponymous state park. (Don't stop reading.) Conestogas crossed the Snake via the three parallel islands and sand bars in 4 channels of the Snake that separate the banks and islands, but post-TMI, one presumes, calling it "Three Mile Island Crossing" has become an inviting slip of the pen on the Web: Did you notice that the word "mile" was oddly missing in the first mention in this third 'graph of mine? Two Wikipedia pages (same day edits by the same WP editor, i think) have that extra word, as do three non-WP pages. The WP editor cited, in each of the 2 WP pages, the same link, labelled "Three Mile Island Crossing", to a page actually titled "Three Island Crossing Park", at www.stateparks.com/three_island_crossing.html
  --Jerzy•t 05:33, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
  

Requested move 6 June 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Done, reverting a badly mistaken move I made based on false information; my deepest apologies. Graham87 14:28, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

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Three Mile Island → Three Mile Island (disambiguation) – Until recently, the base name was a primary target redirect to Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station. It was changed without discussion. The dab still has a PT layout, and the target has the appropriate hatnote. PT rational still applies. MB 15:57, 6 June 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 19:46, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

• comment the accident appears to be the primary topic [1]—blindlynx 16:41, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

• Technical oppose. The real question is whether Three Mile Island should be a primary redirect or not, and the place for that is WP:RFD. I've put in a request at WP:RMT to revert the undiscussed move. 162 etc. (talk) 16:42, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

  There is no reason that can not just be discussed here. The move is plausible and could be the final outcome. MB 14:47, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Disagree. Three Mile Island was a longstanding primary redirect, and WP:RFD is where we discuss redirects. 162 etc. (talk) 17:34, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

We're already at the correct venue. If the contested move hadn't occurred, and instead someone proposed retargeting the redirect somewhere else: yes, RfD would have been the place for that. An RfD discussion can sometimes even result in a page getting moved (although there's a tendency to defer to RM in contentious cases). But what is being discussed here is the move of a disambiguation page and whether there is a primary topic – for both questions, RM is the right venue. – Uanfala (talk) 14:41, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose if it should point anywhere, it should point to the accident; seeing as it is disputed with the power generation station, then the disambiguation page would remain at the base name. Just remove the primary topic formatting. -- 64.229.88.43 (talk) 23:59, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
• Support but redirect base name to Three Mile Island accident. Clear primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:34, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
• This should have been reverted under WP:RMUM. In addition, the primary redirect was still in place when the move was performed, apparently unilaterally using administrative tools. At the time, the base name was also under move protection and had been a stable redirect for 15 years. Dekimasuよ! 13:58, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
• Relister comment Relisting after I had erroneously closed this. People are divided between there being no primary and whether the accident is primary. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 19:50, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose move of the disambiguation page, as there is no primary topic here. Previously the status quo was that the station was the ptopic, but now people are saying the accident is the ptopic. That's arguable, but I wouldn't go all the way with that, as it's not clear that people would just say "Three Mile Island" on its own to describe the accident. Overall, a dab page is best, as was the situation prior to a bold move in 2014. — Amakuru (talk) 12:57, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose I'm torn on this. The accident article definitely wins on nearly every metric -- page views, page watchers, article size, google search results, etc. However, despite that, it still seems wrong to redirect to name of a place to an article on an event that happened there (for example, we don't redirect Columbine High School to Columbine High School massacre despite the latter clearly winning on all those same metrics). Therefore, I'm fine leaving it as a disambig page. Courtesy ping to Graham87. --Ahecht (TALK
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• Comment – Thanks for the ping, Ahecht. I honestly have no idea how I came to this conclusion, but I can *swear* that, after checking the article out due to a random tweet, for some reason I thought "Three Mile Island" was a redirect to "Three Mile Island (disambiguation(" and that it was a simple case of a malplaced disambiguation page. Looking at the page history, I realise that this wasn't the case at all. Since I unilaterally got us in to this situation I'm going to unilaterally get us out of it ... stand by. Graham87 14:24, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.