Talk:Carter

Jimmy Carter redirect

Does it really make sense for this to redirect straight to the US president? There are a lot of Carters out there, including a half-dozen towns and an occupation. Just looking for opinions, in case this is soemthing that's been debated before.-FZ 21:21, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The Answer

No. It does not make sense for "Carter" to redirect to Jimmy Carter. I did a search on "Carter" looking for information on Carter G. Woodson. That's not Wikilove at all...

Capt. Thomas J. Carter

Dumping him; added by IP; only signs of verification are [1] and [2], which suggest no hint of notability.
--Jerzy•t 05:21, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Separate Last Name Article

IMHO, it should be merged back here. It's not that long. This is a disambiguation page, so it should provide quick access to all the carters without having to go to a separate page. I was looking for Jimmy Carter, so I tried entering just "Carter", but now I have to click through to a separate article and then search through a list of miscellaneous carters.. Annoying. Pfalstad 20:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jimmy

Okay, I agree that Jimmy Carter shouldn't be where this page redirects to, but surely he should be prominently featured toward / at the top of this page? As it stands, the only redirect to him is as part of a reference to one of his relations. Someone looking for the president who does not notice that aside will have to click on the Carter surname page and then scroll down to the J's and then click on Jimmy. The Ford article has a redirect to Gerald right at the top, a far less important / known former president (IMO, of course), and Ford is probably an even more common surname than Carter... Anyways, just thought it strange that it's easier to find the link to the USS Jimmy Carter than the man it was named after... Feel free to tell me why I'm wrong. 67.189.146.29 (talk) 04:36, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you. This is not the same as replacing the entire article with a redirect to Jimmy Carter. This is making it easier to use Wikipedia: for users looking for other Carters - and they are really plentiful- the price of checking out Jimmy Carter should be minimal. In other words, a link near the top towards Jimmy Carter should be nice. I don't have the statistics, but my guess is at least a solid double-digit percentage of the hits for Carter must be for Jimmy Carter. And to add: In a perfect world, a short-list of perhaps three, max five, Carters would have been on the top of this article. I don't know how to compile it, but I do claim Jimmy Carter obviously must be on this short-list. Can anyone claim there should be a short-list without him? I think we should have such a short-list here, because so many people wading through the hundreds of Carters means we create a lot of work for nothing. Now the maintenance may make it possibly impossible to have this short-list at the top, because it would be a forever edit-war between fans of number five and number six on the list. Still, to not include someone who should be there because of this possible edit-war, is a bad solution.Greswik (talk) 10:04, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have no objection to a link to Jimmy Carter being on this page. My objection is to the phrase 'It is most commonly used to refer to'. As I said in my edit summary, Jimmy Carter is a foreigner who was the head of a foreign country to many readers (including me). Personally, I think of Carter carburettors and fuel injection way before I think of President Carter. Another possibility is to merge Carter (name) to this page. Many other disambiguation pages combine names and other usages into a single page. Cheers. Stepho (talk) 10:17, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Split: Carter (surname) material to Carter (name)

I think most of the people should be moved off to the name article. Only the most prominent people should remain on this page, since we have a separate name article. So, just Jimmy Carter 39 would remain. As the name article also has a section for fictional people, all that can be moved off. The massive introduction section should be moved to the name article as well, with a much simpler intro left here. -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:18, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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