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This disambiguation page lists the primary topic and one other topic. The correct thing to do here is delete the disambiguation page and find a suitable hatnote for the top of Data structure. PROD removed by @N2e: Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 16:31, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 16:31, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete. The DAB page lists the primary topic Data structure, one secondary topic, Data structure (blockchain), followed by one see also link, List of data structures (a navigation aid for the primary topic). WP:ONEOTHER states that
If there are only two topics to which a given title might refer, and one is the primary topic, then a disambiguation page is not needed—it is sufficient to use a hatnote ... If an existing disambiguation page does not appear to be needed because there are only two topics for the ambiguous title and one of them is the primary topic ... it may be deleted if, after a period of time no additional ambiguous topics are found to expand the disambiguation page
. The DAB page was created in December 2020 and tagged with {{One other topic}} in November 2023. If we cannot find more than one secondary topic here, the page should be deleted.
- Furthermore, I would view Data structure (blockchain) to be a spurious secondary topic. The link is a redirect to Blockchain#Openness, created following the 23:24, 4 December 2020 bolding of data structure in the sentence
Proponents of permissioned or private chains argue that the term "blockchain" may be applied to any data structure that batches data into time-stamped blocks.
This refers todata structure
in its primary-topic sense. So while it's not the subject of this AfD, I don't think Data structure (blockchain) is an appropriate name for this redirect; it should either be renamed to Blockchain (data structure) or deleted. Preimage (talk) 18:17, 17 May 2025 (UTC)