Talk:Sunfish Lake (disambiguation)

Requested move 19 February 2016

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. (non-admin closure) © Tbhotch^™ (en-2.5). 19:43, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

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Sunfish Lake (disambiguation) → Sunfish Lake – the city with less than 600 inhabitants is not the major subject – Inwind (talk) 09:58, 19 February 2016 (UTC) (talk) 09:58, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

@Inwind, Jenks24, and Amakuru: This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:53, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

• Why not? Looks more prominent than either of the other subjects listed one the dab. Jenks24 (talk) 11:44, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose I'd agree with that Jenks24 above, unless a better case is made that either of the two lakes is of particular importance. The two lakes (one of which is completely inside the Minnesota town), both look quite small and insignificant on the map, whereas clearly a town is a real place where people live, and therefore might easily be primary. Certainly seems controversial enough to merit a full WP:RM entry...  — Amakuru (talk) 13:32, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose. The populated place is admittedly minor, but the two minuscule lakes seem even more so. As Amakuru suggests above, I think the nominator would need to offer some evidence to establish that either of these small bodies of water rival the significance of the town, or are anywhere near as likely to be sought by readers. ╠╣uw [talk] 18:46, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
• Support Smalltown USA should not default to being the primary topic. A low notability topic is better replaced with a dab page when multiple topics exist -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 06:54, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose: Populated places are more likely to be notable than small bodies of water - not supporting "Smalltown USA" so much as "Anytown, Anywhere" over "Anylake, Anywhere". Have reformatted the dab page to reflect the current position (ie that there exists a primary topic.) PamD 14:26, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Though the notion of a "city" of population 600 always seems a rather quaint Americanism: around here it would be called a village. PamD 14:27, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

• Support – A person looking for one of the lakes should not find a tiny town. No primary topic here. Dicklyon (talk) 06:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose. The town gets more thank twice the page views of both the other two subjects combined - and not all of them will be getting there through the Sunfish Lake redirect.[1] If it ain't broke, don't fix it. As an aside, the Minnesota lake should be moved as "Sunfish Lake (Minnesota)" doesn't properly distinguish it from "Sunfish Lake, Minnesota".--Cúchullain ^t/c 21:30, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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