Talk:Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (It is a basic informational listing, with a one-sentence summary) --Danafifethomas (talk) 21:10, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 9 September 2018

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Consensus not to move, therefore, not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 19:22, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

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Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano → Gods and Kings (book) – Per WP:SUBTITLE, as only short subtitles may be used for disambiguation. 142.160.89.97 (talk) 00:43, 9 September 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 22:19, 17 September 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 21:00, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Hhkohh (talk) 01:01, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose Seems a common name Hhkohh (talk) 01:01, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

@Hhkohh: How do you reconcile your position with our book-specific guideline, WP:SUBTITLE, which states:

Usually, a Wikipedia article on a book (or other medium, such as a movie, TV special or video game) does not include its subtitle in the Wikipedia page name, per WP:CONCISE. The only exception to that is short article titles, for disambiguation purposes.

142.160.89.97 (talk) 01:05, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

WP:SUBTITLE is not a policy, just a guideline, see also WP:COMMONNAME and other related policy and it says usually not always Hhkohh (talk) 09:47, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

• Support I see no issue with the requested move, and it abides by the given guideline. -- Alex^TW 03:38, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:NATURALDIS. I don't see how shortening the title helps here. --Gonnym (talk) 09:59, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose: I see no rule anywhere that "only short subtitles may be used for disambiguation". I see instead at WP:NCDAB that, where disambiguation is needed, natural disambiguation is the first choice. PamD 11:28, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

@PamD: I see no rule anywhere that "only short subtitles may be used for disambiguation". Does the above quotation from WP:SUBTITLE not qualify? 142.160.89.97 (talk) 18:18, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Pam commented before your quote, so it would be interesting to see if that changes anything. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 18:57, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

I don't think she did, but it's certainly possible that she accidentally missed it. 142.160.89.97 (talk) 19:29, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

I find the wording of that section confusing as it talks about "short titles" and this now appears to mean "short subtitles". If that interpretation is correct it would be useful for an example like this one under discussion to be included there to clarify. PamD 07:34, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

• Support per WP:SUBTITLE, and because the current title is a very cumbersome disambiguation which is not concise. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 12:15, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

WP:SUBTITLE: Usually, a Wikipedia article on a book (or other medium, such as a movie, TV special or video game) does not include its subtitle in the Wikipedia page name, per WP:CONCISE. The only exception to that is short article titles, for disambiguation purposes.

• Support Neutral, the title is so long I almost missed that the nom calls for a "book" descriptor (God and Kings (book)) and thought it was like many of their other common-name nominations without descriptors. But 'book' works here. Randy Kryn (talk) 16:52, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

@Randy Kryn:, there are other books, such as Gods and Kings, 1945 collection of six one-act plays by Lajos Bíró . In ictu oculi (talk) 10:34, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose cited guideline does not apply as disambiguation and long title are clearly beneficial to readers here, and in cases without (book) WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT works for short titles. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:21, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose. I see at least one other book at Gods and Kings (disambiguation). Suggest Gods and Kings (Dana Thomas). In literature, try to avoid "book" vs "play" vs "novel" etc. Many other creative arts have a an accompanying "book". In literature, Title / Author referencing dominates, is there a reason for Wikipedia to not like disambiguating creative works by author? --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:13, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose. I would support this per Frayae but there is another book/novel titled Gods and Kings so it may not be helpful to move. Flooded with them hundreds 05:09, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

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