Talk:Blind

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: no consensus to move. Favonian (talk) 23:20, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

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Blind → Blind (disambiguation) – Relisted to see if there is stronger evidence that there is primary topic. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:27, 7 January 2012 (UTC) Blindness is clearly the primary topic, so blind should redirect there rather than be a disambiguation page. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 16:14, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

• Support makes sense, add a hatnote for the dab page. 76.65.128.132 (talk) 08:07, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose – Why do you assert that blindness is clearly primary? A person looking for blindness would more likely search for the noun; there are several noun meanings of blind that they might be looking for if they come here. There's no reason to assume or force a primary here. Dicklyon (talk) 05:23, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
• Mild oppose. I see the point here, and am tempted to agree, but in this case I think there are too many alternative uses to assert that blindness is primary, at least without further evidence. Powers ^T 01:51, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
• Comment: Out of 18 links to Blind I fixed, 16 were for Blindness (although I removed one), 1 was for Blind (The Sundays album), 1 was for a song in Naked (Talking Heads album). TimBentley (talk) 20:33, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose. The present arrangement seems most helpful to readers. There are too many meanings that might be sought. Noetica^Tea? 06:11, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
• Support. The primary usage should be about the inability to see, which should probably redirect to blindness. That article would then have a "redirects here" capnote with a link to the dabpage. Blindness is obviously the primary menaing of blind. The use of the word for a window covering is surely derived from that. All the other uses are certainly derivative. Peterkingiron (talk) 01:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

But there is a reasonable expectation, encouraged by WP:TITLE, that titles will be nouns or noun phrases:

"Use nouns: Nouns and noun phrases are normally preferred over titles using other parts of speech; such a title can be the subject of the first sentence."

Blind is a noun when it concerns window coverings, etc. But not when it concerns blindness.

On top of that, the assertion of "obvious" "primary usage" is unsupported by evidence. It is not genuinely helpful here, I suggest. It very often is not.

Noetica^Tea? 02:08, 10 January 2012 (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.

A recenr usage

• A recent television advertisement here in England used "nose-blind" to mean anosmia to a particular smell caused by long-term exposure to that smell. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:44, 15 June 2018 (UTC)