Talk:John Dickerson (disambiguation)

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On 24 January 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved from John Dickerson to John Dickerson (disambiguation). The result of the discussion was moved.

Requested move 24 January 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Consensus the journalist is the primary topic. (closed by non-admin page mover) Cremastra (talk) 14:02, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

– CBS journalist and soon to be CBS Evening News anchor is clearly WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. He had (see the link [[1]]) 49,827 pageviews in the last 90 days (from total of 50.451 pageviews). So, almost 99% of "John Dickerson" name are referred to CBS journalist. 103.111.100.82 (talk) 10:39, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:DPT, we can take a longer view, and include the ambiguous traffic, like this. The interest in the journalist's biography is consistently orders of magnitude higher. In logarithmic view, it's apparent that most spikes in interest in the base term also correspond to spikes in interest in the proposed primary topic.

For last month, WikiNav does not seem to render. I thought it was because there was too little identifiable traffic, but a look into the archive only ever shows clicks on the proposed primary topic in the last year.

snapshot of clickstreams from John Dickerson in 2024

From meta:Research:Wikipedia clickstream archive:

clickstream-enwiki-2024-01.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 17
total: 17 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-02.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 11
total: 11 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-03.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 75
total: 75 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-04.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 28
total: 28 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-05.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 12
total: 12 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-06.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 16
total: 16 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-07.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 61
total: 61 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-08.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 406
total: 406 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-09.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 171
total: 171 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-10.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 34
total: 34 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-11.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 119
total: 119 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-12.tsv:

John_Dickerson John_Dickerson_(journalist) link 18
total: 18 to 1 identified destinations

By usage, the situation is fairly clear, though there could be some WP:Recentism here. What's the long-term significance of the other biographies? --Joy (talk) 11:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support per explaination above. 182.1.237.74 (talk) 00:06, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support for primary topic by usage, in accordance with the nom's rationale and Joy's research. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 19:54, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Dickerson's profile has obviously grown since I created the disambiguation page in 2008. Offenbach (talk) 22:48, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.