Talk:AP

message: somebody needs to sort all these in alphabetical order—Preceding unsigned comment added by Unixer (talk • contribs) 08:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Shouldn't the associated press article link here?  With all due respect, Anthony's Productions isn't one-tenth of one percent as well known by the "AP" acronym as Associated Press.  "AP" is practically synonomous with Associated Press.  I don't know how to make it so it links here, but this is some sort of bad joke.  If someone can change it, please do. President David Palmer 03:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Associated Press

message: This was originally a disambiguation page with many links.  It was flagged for clean-up and after some consideration I eventually decided to make this drastic change.  I have explained my rationale below.  Certainly if anyone disagrees with these changes, feel free to drop me a line on my user talk page.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Marchije (talk • contribs) 02:35, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reasons why this is no longer a disambiguation page

message: There are many words and acronyms in the English language that are used to describe more than one thing; for example "Go" could refer to the actual verb, the Chinese board game, the unrelated family board game, the 2001 Japanese film, the American gameshow, the 1970s supergroup, the song by Moby, etc., so when someone uses "go" as their search word in Wikipedia, there needs to be a way to direct them to the article on the particular "go" they are actually looking for.
Therefore, a disambiguation page titled AP should not be a list every person, place or thing with the initials "AP"; it should assist a Wikipedia user in finding an existing article whose topic is (or is often referred to with) just the word "ap" or the letters "AP".
Before adding a topic to a disambiguation page, one should be asking oneself: 
* If you were looking for this topic on Wikipedia, would you simply and only type "ap" or "AP" as your search word?
* Are there people who might refer to your topic by only using the word/letters "ap" or "AP"?  
Please see Wikipedia:Disambiguation and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) for more info.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Marchije (talk • contribs) 02:35, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: About disambiguation pages

message: After going through the articles posted to this page, the only 2 articles which I felt warranted being on a dab page for "ap" or "AP" were Ap (water) and Associated Press.  
Some might question why Associated Press deserves a spot on a dab page any more than say, Allied Press or Area postrema; I would point out a couple of things:
* Many of the article links that I removed from this page did not even mention a reference to "AP" in the body of their respective articles; this adds further credence to the fact that the topic is not commonly referred to as "ap" or "AP"  
* At the time of my edits there were 52 wiki pages linked to AP (not including redirects or Wikipedia project pages.)  Of those 52 pages, 14 of them meant to link to the actual dab page, and 31 were actually references to the Associated Press.  The remaining 7 pages referred to topics which did not even have a link on the AP dab page.
* I also moved some of the other links to List of acronyms and initialisms since they are better suited there
Given this only left links to Ap (water) and Associated Press I decided to redirect AP to the Associated Press and Ap to Ap (water) then added soft redirects to one another's pages.
If in the future someone has created an article on AP, A.P., A-P or other variations thereof, then a new dab page should be created at that time.  If anyone requires assistance with this, I would be more than happy to help. Marchije (talk) 02:35, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: My edits

message: Currently this and AP (disambiguation) are nearly copies of each other.  We really only need one disambiguation page. swaq 17:25, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely.  Go ahead! I added the necessary toplink to Associated Press already, so that AP can redirect there again. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 01:49, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: I cleaned up the page according to WP:MOSDAB, note that there's certainly more ways to categorise such a large list. Widefox (talk) 13:30, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: This entry for ap (water) was in the Linguistics section. I took it out of there, but my edits were undone several times so I guess some justification is in order. The target article: Ap (water) might seems like it's about the Sanskrit word ap, because there's a lengthy intro about the etymology and there's a bit of trivia at the end about the word borrowed into Thai, and more importantly the article doesn't have a proper lead. However, if that was what the article was about, then it would have no place on wikipedia but would instead be on wiktionary. It's here on wikipedia because of its middle section, which is about the concept in the Rigveda and later Hindu mythology. This is what the article is about. If there's any doubt, it's worth looking at Talk:Ap_(water) – the three WikiProjects that it is part of are: Religion/Interfaith, India and Hinduism/Mythology.
Therefore I'm moving the entry out of the Linguistics section and into Mythology. Uanfala (talk) 14:11, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is not about mythology at all and incorrectly categorized as such. The article is almost entirely about the word and related derivations and etymology there is some mention of associations with some vedic gods, but the term itself is not mythological. older ≠ wiser 15:07, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you think two separate WikiProjects (Religions and Mythology) have both incorrectly categorised is as such? The article is not almost entirely about the word: it consists of altogether four paragraphs, two of them are about the word (one of these two is a very short one) and the other two are about the concept of the waters in Vedic mythology and later Hinduism. If you still think otherwise, you have to demonstrate your point. And if you don't think "mythology" is a good label, you're welcome to suggest a different one. Uanfala (talk) 16:36, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: No, none of the paragraphs are about the term "ap" as a mythological construct. One paragraphs discusses some associations the gods Indra and Agni had with water, and the last paragraph discusses some later associations of water with Puranic gods and Hindu philosphy. older ≠ wiser 18:46, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't see how this doesn't fall within the scope of mythology. What different heading would you suggest?  Uanfala (talk) 18:59, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought it was just fine under linguistics, as most of the content is about the word as a word. If that doesn't suit you, I'd just as soon leave it under other uses. older ≠ wiser 19:05, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ap (water) 

message: anatomy and physiology? Huzaifa abedeen (talk) 18:53, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  anatomy and physiology?