Talk:Witten (disambiguation)

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Proposed move: Witten (Germany) to Witten, and Witten to Witten (disambiguation). The city in Germany is a lot more significant than the hamlet in the Netherlands (in the municipality of Assen, maybe 30 houses). Markussep 18:30, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Witten should be about Witten in Germany. ナイトスタリオン ✉ 20:22, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Clearly the most common usage. Rd232 ^talk 23:23, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Olessi 15:32, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. Dragons flight 05:56, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

redirect[edit]

I went ahead have and moved Witten to Witten (disambiguation). I then changed the redirect from Witten to point to Witten, Germany. That change has been reverted so Witten now points here. I'm stepping back from this. Anyone else want to help? Tedernst 16:25, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't like Tobias' solution, apparently he thinks 2 links (to Witten, referring to the one near Assen) is a lot. Both Witten in Drenthe and Witten in North Dakota have less than 100 inhabitants and are not even municipalities, whereas the city of Witten in Germany has 100,000 inhabitants. But well, he fixed all the links referring to German Witten himself, so we might as well leave it like this. Witten (dab) is now obsolete, might as well move that to Witten now. Markussep 17:25, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Witten, South Dakota is a small, unincorporated town, probably in Witten Township. There is also a Witten Dam and its reservoir in South Dakots. New Witten, South Dakota is an incorporated town (pop. 51 in 2000). Gene Nygaard 16:16, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

dab style[edit]

MoS:DP seems clear to me that there should be no links to countries when disambiguating cities, towns and the like. I would simply revert it, but I've feeling a bit too close to this, as if it's a battle of wills, and that makes little sense. Could someone with more perspective please address this? Tedernst 16:25, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]