Talk:Bros (Canadian band)

Requested move 29 May 2020

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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. I have also redirected Bros to Bros (disambiguation). (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 01:02, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

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• BROS (Canadian musical duo) → Bros (Canadian band)
• Bros → Bros (British band)

– Firstly, Wikipedia does not recognize stylizations of band names, such as all in capital letters. Secondly, (band) is the common disambiguator for all bands, even if they are duos – see Royal Blood (band), Lightning Bolt (band), Yazoo (band), Blancmange (band) and others. The creation of this article now means that the article for the 1980s boy band needs to be further disambiguated – although they are now a duo, their third member during their most popular period was Scottish, so (British band) is a better disambiguator for them than (English band). Richard3120 (talk) 22:13, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

• Support per MOS:TM / WP:ALLCAPS / WP:TITLETM. —BarrelProof (talk) 16:39, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
• Support per nom – as MOS:TM/WP:ALLCAPS/WP:TITLETM for the 1st move and as incomplete disambiguation (WP:INCDAB) for the 2nd one. Paintspot Infez (talk) 17:35, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
• Support, the rename for the Canadian band makes sense given the odd title it currently has, and the rename for the British band also makes sense. PKT(alk) 12:51, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
• Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 13:47, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
• Support per all In ictu oculi (talk) 16:46, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose Bros is currently the primary topic and not disambiguated. There is also no request to move the disambiguation page. Pageviews shows the British band as the primary topic (excluding Brother here as it's unlikely many views of that article are from "Bros" - averages for Brother, Brothers and Bro and 208, 78 and 37 per day, which when combined are less than half as many as for Bros). Peter James (talk) 20:43, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
• Support Bros should be disambiguated because it's way more broad of a title than just the band and per nom. PrussianOwl (talk) 02:37, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
• Support per MOS:TM, WP:TITLETM, MOS:CAPS, WP:NCCAPS, etc. I don't feel strongly about primary-topic assertions; I suspect that both should be disambiguated. Yes, Bros (disambiguation) could and probably should move to Bros; the RM should have included that but is not void for having failed to do so. (See WP:NOT#BUREAUCRACY and WP:WIKILAWYER.) Support reduction of "musical duo" to "band" per WP:CONCISE. I'm not sure a WP:CONSISTENT argument can be made either way; there are other articles with "duo" in their titles, but there are other duos with "band". Few if any notable duos are strictly and only duos, beyond songwriting and production control; they almost always have a band both in the studio and in live shows (even if they are a rotating retinue of session musicians).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  05:49, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

• Is that because you haven't looked at pageviews, or do you propose abolition of WP:Primary topic? Or if this is an exception because both are the same type of thing, should Boston and Denver also be disambiguation pages? Peter James (talk) 12:17, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

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