Talk:Queens (disambiguation)

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Feminist in topic Requested move 1 June 2019

Requested move 1 June 2019

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move. Plenty of discussion and valid arguments from both sides. I don't see how relisting would generate any clearer result. (closed by non-admin page mover) feminist (talk) 13:56, 8 June 2019 (UTC)Reply



WP:ASTONISH. There is no primary topic for either the singular (Queen) or the plural "Queens", by PT#2 it would be Queen regnant and Queen (chess) among others on the DAB page. In the category namespace here (and on Commons) Category:Queens is about the noble title with the borough at Category:Queens, New York (and Commons:Category:Queens, New York City). Until Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 November 21#Queen category we had the band at Category:Queens and for nearly a month we had it about the shogi (until nominated by me). Similarly until Commons:Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/10/Category:Queen (nominated by me) the Commons category for Queen was for the band. So yes while topics in the singular can't generally take the singular in category namespace neither should things in the plural in article namespace. Bones, Cars and Cats redirect to the subject that WP convention names in the singular. Indeed the noble title for the male form is just at King (not King regnant) but because of the band (and other articles) the article on the female form is at Queen regnant but its still a contender for "Queen(s)" per WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT. While the the noble title isn't frequently pluralized people will often talk about the kings and queens that ruled a particular country and while in chess people only start with 1 queen people do frequently promote pawns to queens and thus a player can end up with 2 or more queens on the board in addition to the fact that even if both player a person might say something like "both player's queens are 4th rank" for example. In the article its self the chess article uses "queens" 3 times in the main text. Queens, New York City is another possibility but that's probably not needed since both the state and city are just "New York". I left a comment at Talk:Queens#Disambiguation but there has been no replies. The DAB page "Queens" could be formatted similar to how Wells was saying "the plural form of any type of Queen". Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:14, 1 June 2019 (UTC)Reply


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