Talk:NRA (disambiguation)

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Order of Links[edit]

How can the National Rifle Association be at the bottom of this list of links? I am guessing that at least among U.S. users, this is by far the most frequently-used meaning of this acronym. Perhaps someone could take a look at the relative traffic that the sites on this disambiguation page receive and decide whether the present order really makes any sense? Carl Wivagg (talk) 11:53, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes - the page accords with WP guidelines. Universal meanings first then country specific meanings with countries in alphabetical order (Republic of China correctly sorted as China in the list) and then within countries by alphabetical order. For what it is worth, my preferred use of the acronym is also way down the list. Seems OK to me. Velela ^{Velela Talk} 12:10, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Flatly contradicts the 'most common English usage' principle, however. I'd be willing to bet that, in English, NRA is used to mean 'National Rifle Association' approx. 120 times more often than all the others on this list combined. Probably 95% of all queries to WP on "NRA" are looking for the American association. Therefore, NRA should RED to that page, with a disambig link there, IMO. But I don't care to argue the point other than to express my opinion here.Eaglizard (talk) 21:32, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect that when you said in English, did you perhaps mean in the United States in English.....? Certainly isn't true in NZ, Australia or the UK and probably not in India, Singapore, South Africa................. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 23:07, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It might not be true in NZ, etc, but it is true among MOST primary language English speakers who are not in those tiny little countries. Your thumbing your nose at NRA supporters by not giving the disambiguation after going to the NRA is just one more sign that leftist radicals control Wikipedia on any articles that they choose, and thus encourage people to start using other sources of information. I know I am getting sick of it and havent given money to Wikipedia since I started noticing it in regard to the Global Warming controversy. Strangle this site with your ideological nonsense if you want, but plainly MOST primary language English speakers dont think of anything other than the National Rifle Associationw when they put in a search for 'NRA'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.73.16.17 (talk) 12:11, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Something is up. The NRA should NOT be at the bottom of the list. This clearly was done, or at least in this case the rules maliciously followed, to make information on the NRA as difficult as possible to find by putting them at the bottom and referring to them as the National Rifle Association instead of the NRA (some people might not know what NRA stands for). When I searched for other acronyms there either wasn't much of an order or most popular at the top. 71.96.26.57 (talk) 01:49, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the national rifle association at the bottom?[edit]

Whenever anyone says "the NRA", the National Rifle Association is almost always being referred to, not the National Restaurant Association (the other NRA) and certainly not any other option on the list. I know that other countries' views also matter, but I don't think that the vast majority of native English speakers associates "NRA" with anything else than the National Rifle Association. Indeed, National Rifle Association has been visited 33958 times in the past month (http://stats.grok.se/en/201403/National%20Rifle%20Association), while nuclear reaction analysis was visited 323 times (http://stats.grok.se/en/201403/Nuclear%20reaction%20analysis) and negative relative accomodation 498 times (http://stats.grok.se/en/201403/Negative%20relative%20accommodation). "National regulatory authorities" redirect to a different page altogether.

Therefore, I propose that the National Rifle Association should be listed on the top of this page, and maybe NRA should just redirect to it. Just like NSA redirects to the National Security Agency, even though that's a US term, and not an international one.

128.164.24.24 (talk) 14:26, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Should this redirect to National Rifle Association? (2018)[edit]

The NRA is in the news a lot, around the world, with increasing coverage in recent times. Wouldn't it make sense to redirect the page to National Rifle Association, and to turn this into an explicit Disambiguation page linked to by a hatnote from that page? Park3r (talk) 03:37, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Park3r: I agree, and since we are the only ones to have commented on this, I think a WP:BOLD move would be appropriate.- Mr X 🖋 14:13, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done - Both criteria of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC are met. See [1] for comparison.- Mr X 🖋 14:28, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Move to NRA[edit]

I propose the moving of this page from NRA (disambiguation) to NRA on the basis that the current move from last year is too US-centric and does not meet the internationalisation of Wikipedia. It makes no sense to disambiguate an acronym, especially one which is used by many different organisations. Americans are not the only users of English on Wikipedia, nor the internet for that matter, and coverage should reflect this. UaMaol (talk) 19:09, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC at NRA. The part of that argument against any acronym as a PT is invalid, as we have many precedents - see WP:MOSDAB for examples and how we style them. As for the value of having this particular one would need a more thorough argument (see PT link), as there's also many country-specific topics with acronym PTs. The NRA is internationally known, may be less so than CIA, FBI, NSA etc, but arguably similar, needing a stronger argument to change from the status quo IMO. Widefox; talk 17:48, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agree There are a dozen-plus organisations just called "National Rifle Association of...". Whilst I don't have a problem with the disambig having the NRA of America at the top (although possibly with a disambig link as well - "NRA, usually National Rifle Association (disambig), most commonly National Rifle Association of America". It is terribly US-centric (WP:GLOBAL) to have NRA as a REDIR to the article for the US entity. Within much of the English-speaking world, "NRA" means "National Rifle Association of <speaker's country>". I would note that WP:EN seems to be the only wikipedia to do this - pretty much every other language has the disambig page at NRA. It is also very unusual to point a Three Letter Acronym directly at a single article. Looking through the list of Nxx combinations, the only ones I can find that point straight to articles are NRA and NBA - both point at US entities. Everything else seems to go to a disambig. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hemmers (talk • contribs) 08:53, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]