Talk:Pogo

Alabama

I changed

• [[Pogo, Alabama]], a place in [[List of places in Alabama: O-R|Franklin County, Alabama]]

to

• [[List of places in Alabama: O-R|Pogo, Alabama]], a place in [[Franklin County, Alabama]]

and User:Sesshomaru reverted, citing MoS:DAB#Red_links. Huh? That says:

A link to a non-existent article (a "red link") should only be included on a disambiguation page when another article also includes that red link. There is no need to brainstorm all occurrences of the page title and create red links to articles that are unlikely ever to be written, or likely to be removed as insufficiently notable topics.

If the only thing that uses the red link is the disambiguation page, unlink the "entry word" but still keep a blue link in the description. . . .

The only pages that link to Pogo, Alabama are this one and List of places in Alabama: O-R. Is the latter a good enough reason to include a redlink?

Red links should not be the only link in a given entry; link also to an existing article, so that a reader (as opposed to a contributing editor) will have somewhere to navigate to for additional information. . . .

Well, my version gives two blue links: to Franklin County, Alabama (note that F does not usually belong between O and R) and to a page which lists Pogo, which would be the usual way to link something with no article of its own.

As a compromise, I could live with

• [[Pogo, Alabama]], a place in [[Franklin County, Alabama|Franklin County]], [[List of places in Alabama: O-R|Alabama]].

—Tamfang (talk) 22:49, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

POGO is a specific brand of cooked battered/breaded weiner on a stick in at least Ontario and Quebec

POGO is a specific brand of "corn dog-like" cooked battered/breaded weiner on a stick... so "Pogo, a term for a corn dog in Quebec, Canada" seems insufficient.

I'm not sure if that's why people think Canadians call corndogs "Pogos" or if the POGO brand is derived from a pre-existing slang usage...

SinbadEV (talk) 23:31, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Go ahead and rewrite it. The original claim that it is a generic term in Canada or at least Quebec is sourced in Corn dog. The IP's recent attempt to add the claim that it is a trademarked term in Canada was not sourced either in this article or in "Corn dog. Meters (talk) 00:09, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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