Talk:Nikita

message: A correction: Nikita in Russian is not a diminutive of Nikolai. In Russian, Nikita is a completely different name from Nikolai. Thank you.
:Thanks. I'm removing it. - FractalFusion 04:29, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nikolai 

message: I removed the following three entries from this dab page because they looked either nonnotable or spammy. Either way, no article has been written about them, and until that time comes, they may not deserve a place at this dab page.
* A rocket launcher capable of firing remotely controlled missiles in the Metal Gear Solid video game series.
* Nikita, a women's clothing company based in Iceland
* Nikita, Norway's largest hair dresser chain
– sgeureka t•c 13:51, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: :Copied from the talk page for Nikita (Song) since this info also relates here - I have edited to remove the reference to Nikita being of French origin, and clarified its use for a girls' name 
:I can find no credible evidence anywhere at all that Nikita was in fact a French, or female name, prior to the release of Nikita (song) and La Femme Nikita. My understanding is that the movie never clarifies whether Nikita is a birth name, nickname, etc. Certainly there is a dearth of famous French women in history with this as a given name; I can't find any at all. It appears that the French popularity of the name for girls is only since the movie's 1990 release. Since John's video predates this, was performed by a gay man, and was about a Russian soldier in the early 80s, it seems implausible that it was ever referring to a woman. The websites given referencing Nikita as historically a girl's name have no reliable sources listed, and indeed baby name sites are notorious for rampant copying of other baby name sites' meanings, many of which are fabricated, misleading or just plain incorrect.
:In essence it would probably be more accurate to say that "Nikita is a boys' name of Slavic origin, but since the release of Elton John's video Nikita has (erroneously) been given to girls, and has thus become popular as a girls' name, particularly in France following the release of La Femme Nikita." SaucyWench (talk) 10:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Female / French 

message: The merge template was missing any discussion or rationale. I'll remove the merge template in a week, because disambiguation pages and articles co-exist and complement each other. Example: See David (disambiguation) vs David (name).  I removed the prose from this disambiguation page. The lists go here, and the article gets all the prose.  So should we merge prose? Per WP:DAB, No.   
Should we merge the lists? Maybe, but if merged, they shouldn't use the same internal order, since they serve different purposes.  Here, the film and TV shows have by far the highest combined access rate, and they're searched by first name
I switched to bold subheadings instead of ==headers==. DABs typically don't need a TOC or sections.
;Order
In my opinion, this disambiguation page, on the English language Wikipedia, is primarily about single-named fictional Nikitas.  
Here are some interesting statistics from August 2010 using http://stats.grok.se/
*Nikita_(film)                13689
*La_Femme_Nikita_(TV_series)  31814
*Nikita_(TV_series)           31641 
*Nikita_the_Furrier             349 
*Nikita,_Ukraine                410 
*Nikita_(song)                 2983 
*NikitA                       28499 
*Prince_Nikita_of_Russia        124 
*Nikita_Anand                  1920 
*Nikita_Filatov                2453 
*Nikita_Khrushchev            49472  This article ranked 6438 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org.
*Nikita_Mikhalkov              5311 
*Nikita_Rukavytsya             4573 
*Nichita_Stănescu               812 
*Nikita_Stylites                114 
*Nikita_Thukral                2314 
*Katarina_Waters               9493 
http://stats.grok.se/en/top
A couple of surprises: NikitA the band is neck-and-neck with the two Nikita TV series.  Mr. Krushchev is the access leader - does he go to the top of the list of links?  I think not, because folks aren't finding him with a search for "Nikita", and the films and TV shows as a group still outrank.  Discuss?
--Lexein (talk) 02:10, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal missing rationale - so here's my rationale for NOT merging. 

message: I'm boldly salting two things:
1. The dispute over the Nikita (name) national origin has no place here.  This is for disambiguation only, so I've removed it, and added a hidden comment instructing not to add national origin here.
2. This is not a WP:Coatrack. The allegation about Nikita being a slang term was unsourced, lacked an article supporting the claim, and falsely asserted that the song article had any relevance. Don't say it did; it didn't. 
--Lexein (talk) 14:49, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  That person, user 2620:0:1019:0:D267:E5FF:FEEC:CFC1, continues to insert the unreferenced slang claim. I've removed it once again.Hergilei (talk) 03:12, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit warring, coatracking