Talk:Jefferson

message: *Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America
*Thomas Jefferson Rusk, senator from Texas
*Jefferson Smith, the title character of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
These don't belong on a nav page for use finding people likely to be looked up by simply "Jefferson". If you think there's a place where they will be encyclopedic, put them there.--Jerzy•t 05:45, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jefferson as a given name 

message: Maybe "Jefferson" should lead directly to Thomas Jefferson? It has to be the most popular search for just plain "Jefferson". The Thomas Jefferson page could have a See also link to this disambiguation page... Any ideas? mathwhiz29 03:14, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's why we have WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.  A DAB is the right answer over a redirect. Toddst1 (talk) 23:28, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Redirects are the right answer when there's a primary topic for a title but the topic has an even better title. See Obama, Patton, Reagan, Shakespeare, etc. -- JHunterJ (talk) 13:32, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible redirect? 

message: Should there be an entry to Jefferson (Mountain state)?  I think there should be.  The other state articles point to both the other state articles.  So I think this article should point to all three. --Joe (talk) 14:16, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mountain state? 

message: The Jefferson River was one of the very first things in the country named after the President... WHILE he was president. It was named for him
by Lewis and Clark during their expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific Coast. This river is a place but it's shuffled to the bottom like an afterthought.
Ridiculous. Encyclopedic knowledge is thorough but is also ranked hierarchically -- both as a network (great case in point are the linked pages at Wiki) but
also within each single page/article, whether as text (book) or online. And so, the most relevant or noteworthy or useful or important things should be
close to the top (or center; wherever the focus is) as possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.121.228.184 (talk) 19:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also (?)

message: I've bypassed the piped link to  at the top of the page. Piping and redirects are discouraged on pages like these (see MOS:DABPIPE). Redirect traffic statistics can be found at  if desired. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 11:18, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Sangdeboeuf, I think you're missing the point of that redirect. It is to track how many readers coming to this disambiguation page are using that specific link which is not otherwise used. There are some who hold that Jefferson should be a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to Thomas Jefferson, or whether the president should be given preferential placement on the page. Indeed, about half of visitors to this page go on to the president's article.This usages has been discussed at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages/Archive 42#Listing a topic discriminatorily above others. older ≠ wiser 12:03, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I myself agree that  should redirect to . In fact, I tried to move this page myself in order to create such a redirect, but couldn't for technical reasons (see my request at WP:RM/TR). If a discussion is needed, why not just use the data we have now to reach a decision on the primary topic? —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 12:15, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link piping 

message: Jefferson 1 et 2 92.132.131.84 (talk) 19:40, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Livre 📕