Talk:GNU (disambiguation)

message: Isn't there a bovine species called Gnu? I had a plushie one as a kid. Maybe I'm spelling it wrong, but the name sounds like "new".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.185.89 (talk) 09:41, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animal? 

message: Let's handle this in the manner AfD and other consensus making is done.
Please add to the consensus with either Add listing or Oppose listing with discussion on why, based on the , e.g. MOS:DAB, WP:PTM, etc.  If you already commented above, please copy it below.
PLEASE also have a separate section or sub-section for each suggested addition or deletion. — Lentower (talk) 03:46, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Let's handle this in a clearer manner

message: I think that GNU Project should be listed at GNU (disambiguation), to help the reader find them.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 19:41, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Add GNU Project

message: *Oppose listing Disambiguation pages have a very narrowly focused purpose on Wikipedia. They are not used for a wide-ranging list collection of items that have some relationship to the term being disambiguated. There are enough other ways to accomplish this for any related article. — Lentower (talk) 03:46, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I clarified my oppose at the start of this section. I wasn't saying that dab pages could not include List articles. E.g. an article titled List of GNUs would probably be OK to be added to this dab page. — Lentower (talk) 22:47, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I was replying to Yworo. Widefox; talk 13:07, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Add List of GNU packages

message: *Oppose listing Disambiguation pages have a very narrowly focused purpose on Wikipedia. They are not used for a wide list of items that have some relationship to the term being disambiguated .  There are enough other ways to accomplish this for this article. — Lentower (talk) 03:46, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Add GNU Core Utilities

message: I think that GNU General Public License should probably be listed like the others, to help the reader find it.  "What license is it released under?"  "GNU." Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 21:08, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe, but "GPL" would be a more common answer, I'd think. Yworo (talk) 21:17, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Add GNU General Public License

message: *Keep the entries in version. Yes the snowboards, and yes those two software ones. More importantly, there's a primary topic GNU that was missed by everyone. I've fixed the dab for this, but... 
*Primary topic - I'd be very surprised if there's a primary topic at all - the OS is really the primary topic? - the project / utilities should be more popular outside of WP than the whole thing with the GNU Hurd i.e. Linux (GNU/Linux if you prefer). Inside WP...the justification for the current primary topic is where? Part of the problem with this is the fact that Hurd came along last, making the utilities more popular with Linux filling the gap (but I digress)...
** WP:PRIMARYTOPIC "more likely than all the other articles combined" needs debating. I've also added an "intitle" to pick-up individual utilities, list articles etc. Widefox; talk 09:29, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Yes as is, but

message: These should be separate pages, or the GNU one redirecting to the Gnu one, because things like "Gnu snowboards" make no sense on the all-caps GNU disambig page. The primary topic of GNU is the GNU Project. The primary topic of gnu is the animal.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  19:09, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: *WP:DPAGE indicates that grouping these two different cases: GNU/Gnu, is OK. — Lentower (talk) 02:36, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Separate [[Gnu (disambiguation)]] and [[GNU (disambiguation)]] pages