The solution is perhaps to somehow highlight the gaming platform so that most folks who go there will click right through. uberpenguin 20:20, 3 January 2006 (UTC) Reply There are too many other uses for PSP for it to go straight to PlayStation Portable, because it'd be impossible to list all of them on that page (see The Princess Bride for an example of how to deal with a multi-use issue when there are only two). K1Bond007 20:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC) Reply Links that intend "PlayStation Portable" as "PSP" should be disambiguated anyway it's always considered poor form to link to a redirect (or disambiguation page) for reasons like this. ![]() I don't really feel strongly either way, but thats just my 2cents. I'd like it to stay as a redirect to the disambiguation page given the many other uses for PSP (including the popular Paint Shop Pro), however, the problem here is that most, if not all, the links to "PSP" are PlayStation Portable related and therefore the page should probably be a redirect to PlayStation Portable. cerebralpayne 16:04, 2 January 2006 (UTC) Reply I could go either way on this. I think to dismiss the usage of this acronym for the other terms would be a mistake. However, it appears that, given the evidence presented in the form of search results, there are a lot of people who regularly use some of the other terms listed. I am probably biased because I have been using Paint Shop Pro for years and haven't touched the Sony system, and in my mind PSP always referred to the software. However, I strongly agree for those who vote for the disambiguation. I reverted it once I saw that this is a controversy. I made a disambiguation page for PSP before reading this discussion. The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.233.190.180 ( talk ![]() People *do* however refer to Paint Shop Pro as just that - "Paint Shop Pro". uberpenguin 20:17, 3 January 2006 (UTC) Reply That's because people don't refer to PSP (the handheld console) as a 'Playstation Portable' very often. It isn't our place to determine what readers "should" expand the initialism as. In any case, this should redirect to the disambiguation page simply because there is at least one other notable usage of the acronym, and it's a general rule here to do so whenever there is reasonable ambiguity regarding a term. Either you have discovered a radical new form of numerical notation or you've misinterpreted your results. 10,500,000 is a larger number than 10,200,000 in every radix and numeral system I'm aware of. Tskoge 13:10, 2 January 2006 (UTC) Reply Your own data seems to contradict your conclusion. Googling for PSP shows that the Sony one tops the list. Pcpp 08:31, 29 December 2005 (UTC) Reply Just Googled all of them: 122,000 for "Personal Software Process" 223,000 for "Payment Service Provider" 10,200,000 for "PlayStation Portable" 335,000 for "Pennsylvania State Police" 10,500,000 for "Paint Shop Pro" The Sony one is just behind the paint shop program, but is also much newer. Put it up for a vote if you wish.- SirNuke 04:16, 29 December 2005 (UTC) Reply Now, we will use some logic in this PSP redirect argument and you will tell us if the PSP acronym for "Personal Software Process" is as popular as the acroymn for PlayStation Portable. PSP is a brand name for the PlayStation, and Paint Shop Pro is the only other major entry. The only entry that comes close to the PlayStation Portable is Paint Shop Pro. If you use quotes to surround the queries, the results are much different. Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.106.209.210 ( talk ![]() You'll notice that the PlayStation Portable is *not* the most popular of the PSP's. Pennsylvania State Police - 11,100,000 results.PlayStation Portable - 13,200,000 results.Payment Service Provider - 22,600,000 results.Personal Software Process - 113,000,000 results.At this point, if someone *still* feels that PSP needs to redirect to a single one of the 1/12th of the possible meanings to PSP, please RfC. ![]() I'd easily say a couple of you have broken the 3R rule here. To link this 'ambiguous three-letter acronym' to any single *one* of these articles is asinine. The REDIRECT *needs* to go to the Disambiguation page. Okay, there are a total of 12 articles that can be reffered to as "PSP".
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