Talk:Fargo

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:35, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

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Fargo → Fargo (disambiguation) — I would like to move this page to Fargo (disambiguation) so that Fargo can be redirected to the city in North Dakota, which seems to me to be the primary topic.--D O N D E groovily Talk to me 06:01, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Fargo, North Dakota is probably the most notable of the topics, but Fargo (film) has twice as many page views, and several links to the disambiguation page are intended to refer to the film. Recentism can affect results, but the film was released almost 15 years ago, so its notability is likely to last - so possibly no primary topic. Peter E. James (talk) 22:43, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

True, but keep in mind that the film is named after the city and not the other way around. Naming other stuff after it indicates primary topic. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 23:01, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Boston was named after Boston, Lincolnshire. Peter E. James (talk) 23:07, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Boston Baked Beans, Boston Red Sox, Boston Tea Party, Boston Marathon, Boston Market, Boston Pizza, and USS Boston are not named after Boston, Lincolnshire. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 16:15, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose. The pageview statistics show that the North Dakota city is not the primary topic: the film gets three times the views of the city. Ucucha 01:38, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

There's more to primary topic than pageviews. Despite the much higher page views, Android (operating system) has not replaced Android (robot) as a primary topic. There are plenty of good arguments for the robot that has fewer pageviews. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 02:20, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Neither of those is considered the primary topic: Android is a dab page. It should be the same with Fargo. Ucucha 13:48, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

• Comment According to Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(geographic_names)#United_States, only Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington are allowed to deviate from the [City, State] format. There was an inconclusive and long-winded RfC about that [1]. ^walk victor falk ^talk 14:34, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
  • There is no proposal to move Fargo, North Dakota to Fargo, as far as I'm aware. Instead, Donde is proposing to redirect Fargo to Fargo, North Dakota. Ucucha 14:50, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
    • Ok. Just so that's clear. ^walk victor falk ^talk 14:59, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose per Ucucha. Jonathunder (talk) 23:17, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Rearrangement of the page

I've moved the two most common uses of the term Fargo (film) and Fargo, North Dakota to the top. I don't know if there's a precedent for this or not, but I don't care; if there isn't I'm creating one. Disambig pages are supposed to help people find their way around, and this should make things a lot more convenient for most users. Regards, --Quintucket (talk) 23:40, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

I just realized that America actually does have a similar setup, the big difference being that as the two main uses are locations, "other locations" comes before all other uses. I haven't done that, but I've otherwise arranged it to fit with that page's setup. --Quintucket (talk) 23:49, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Lakota Word?

I'm watching the documentary Lakota Nation vs. United States; at about the 1:35:00 mark an elder American Indian woman says Lakota means "frozen tundra or Fargo". Googling this information is impossible, between the city and the movie/TV series, even the Oxford English dictionary only defines Fargo as a city. So I'm not sure where else to put out a call for sources or citations for what does the Lakota word Fargo actually mean. I think it deserves to be a part of several different Wikipedia pages. Kire1975 (talk) 06:33, 2 November 2023 (UTC)