Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/X.com

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no action‎. Editorial choices such as changing a DAB page to a redirect should be pursued editorially, on the relevant Talk page. Owen× ☎ 17:55, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to Twitter as it is the clear primary topic in a WP:2DABS situation. Page view stats show views for the DAB peaked in late July 2023, when the rebranding was announced. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 12:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Internet, Websites, and Disambiguations. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 12:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Afd is for deletion, not discussion. Georgia guy (talk) 14:50, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose and speedy close: This should not be for deletion as it is still a beneficial DAB page. If you think "X.com' should be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, that should be a new discussion at Talk:X.com, not here. Also, "X.com" did not exist until August 2023 and per those stats, it has steadily decreased in views, so a WP:RECENTISM bias applies. This is also covering three subjects, not just two. Trailblazer101 (talk) 14:58, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose and speedy close. The nominator did not show that the article is unnecessary, misleading, unhelpful or in any other way non-compliant with Wikipedia policies or practice. The nomination is, essentially, WP:IDONTLIKEIT. — kashmīrī ^TALK 15:25, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. A valuable disambiguation page. I don't see any issue with it. Perhaps a majority will be expecting Twitter, but I don't feel the DAB page is problematic for that reason alone. It does seem like WP:RECENTISM. GhostOfNoMeme 22:04, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:DPT, let's have a look at WikiNav for X.com which shows us the meta:Research:Wikipedia clickstream for the month of June. There were 33.1k incoming views, which is a big mass of readers, yet only we could identify only 2.89k outgoing clickstreams towards the proposed primary topic (~9%), plus 1.21k to the historical bank topic (~3.5%), and 752 to the concept of single-letter domains (~2%) which is the first link.

A view of clickstreams from X.com for the last three months

From the clickstream archive:

clickstream-enwiki-2024-04.tsv:

X.com X.com_(bank) link 1035
X.com Twitter link 1025
X.com Single-letter_second-level_domain link 507
X.com XCOM link 62
X.com X_Corp. link 47
X.com Main_Page other 41
X.com X.Org link 27
X.com XCOM:_The_Board_Game link 26
X.com X_(disambiguation) link 13
total: 2783 to 9 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-05.tsv:

X.com Twitter link 2041
X.com X.com_(bank) link 1816
X.com Single-letter_second-level_domain link 772
X.com X_Corp. link 108
X.com XCOM link 94
X.com Main_Page other 55
X.com X.Org link 46
X.com XCOM:_The_Board_Game link 41
X.com X_(disambiguation) link 31
X.com EXCOMM link 12
total: 5016 to 10 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-06.tsv:

X.com Twitter link 2893
X.com X.com_(bank) link 1214
X.com Single-letter_second-level_domain link 752
X.com XCOM link 177
X.com Main_Page other 85
X.com X_Corp. link 74
X.com X.Org link 65
X.com XCOM:_The_Board_Game other 28
X.com Twitter_under_Elon_Musk other 27
X.com X_(disambiguation) link 26
X.com EXCOMM link 14
X.com X other 10
total: 5365 to 12 identified destinations

So Twitter only overtook the other meanings recently. Since it's a very short, straightforward list, it doesn't seem likely that most of these readers were very confused. If we just discard all the traffic that didn't click through (which is like magical thinking, but possibly useful for the purpose of comparison), for June the ratios are ~54% Twitter, ~22% bank, ~14% concept. I wouldn't say this was typically considered primary topic. The trend line is favorable, so maybe in a few months time it might become more efficient to explain this inside the Twitter article and move this disambiguation page aside. --Joy (talk) 08:26, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's also interesting to look at overall monthy page views for these topics. Twitter has seen a huge surge in traffic over the last couple of years, but it's recently subsided. Given this general amount of interest, I'd have expected the surge in interest in Twitter as X.com to match it, but it didn't, it's only started to happen more recently. --Joy (talk) 13:45, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: This data is insightful and admittedly furthers the prior consensus from the most recent RM at Talk:Twitter/Archive 10#Requested move 17 May 2024 that the "X.com" domain is not entirely the primary or more common name yet despite being synonymous with Twitter. Should any concrete data prove otherwise at a later date, a new discussion would need to be had regarding this, given that consensus directly affects this DAB. Trailblazer101 (talk) 15:50, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.