Talk:Tunnel rat (disambiguation)

Requested move (January 2010)

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The result of the proposal was} do not move Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:49, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Tunnel rat → Tunnel rat (disambiguation) — A short reason for page name change. —71.94.249.50 (talk) 00:03, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

• Oppose No reason given for move request. TJ Spyke 00:30, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose why should we? 70.29.210.242 (talk) 05:16, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
• Comment Tunnel rat (disambiguation) should redirect here. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 05:16, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose, no reason given, nor can I think of one. – ukexpat (talk) 02:08, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support, per reasoning at Talk:Tunnel rat (military)#Requested move, which clearly should have been combined with this request. Propaniac (talk) 16:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

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Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Tunnel rat (military) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RM bot 05:15, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Move? (June 2010)

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No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:27, 1 July 2010 (UTC) Tunnel rat → Tunnel rat (disambiguation)

• A Tunnel rat is also a military. User:75.142.152.104 20:37, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

• Oppose nominator makes no sense. 70.29.212.131 (talk) 04:15, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

• Oppose we seem to have had a few of these incoherent or incompetent move requests recently. Is there a procedure for snowballing them out? See WP:SNOW. PatGallacher (talk) 14:19, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Comment I think it's this nominator from 75.x.x.x who edits Transformers articles, atleast he/she's actually leaving a reason now, whereas before they left no reason at all. 70.29.212.131 (talk) 04:20, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
    • Maybe so, but his/her reason is incomprehensible. I know we shouldn't bit the newbies, but there are limits. PatGallacher (talk) 18:12, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support Move the present article towards Tunnel rat (disambiguation) (as proposed). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.142.152.104 (talk) 03:32, 21 June 2010 (UTC) Struck opinion since the IP is that of the nominator and the nomination itself serves as a 'vote'. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:12, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
• If it keeps people happy you can move it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.142.152.104 (talk) 03:18, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Comment 75.142.152.104 is the nominator, so this appears to be an attempt to vote twice. 76.66.195.196 (talk) 13:11, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

*Support This Tunnel rat is a Tunnel rat (military), you can move it. 75.142.152.104 (talk) 18:09, 25 June 2010 (UTC) Struck because 75.142.152.104 has already expressed this opinion twice in this section. -GTBacchus^(talk) 17:16, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

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Moving/dab

I'll be quick, and blunt. You're idiots. I know, I know. That's not very "Wikipedian" of me. But, come on. The "debate" was a three-way vote. You ask large number of people, they'll tell you this name is ambiguous. Come ONNN! Besides, I'm just being bold. Now, if you excuse me, I have some work to finish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.142.152.104 (talk)

You make no sense. If it's ambiguous, then the dab page should exist at its name. Infact, it would make more sense if all disambiguation pages existed at "name" instead of "name (disambiguation)" 76.66.195.196 (talk) 13:13, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Okay. You know what, that was wrong. Not most of it, but the "idiots" thing. That's old Ace. Let me just make my case, with four main points:
1. The name is verifibly ambiguous, with at least three popular uses.
2."Searches/views" are invalid because, as one of the debators said, people could easily be looking for something else and just happening upon this page.
3. One reason I left Wikipedia (mostly) was because of bureaucratic formalities like the electoral debates. Three people showed up! That's grounds for trying again with better advertising, not leaving things as is.
4. If I'm wrong,--riight--another debate might bear that out. As people if they think the article should be moved back. I doubt you'd get a consensus. Which, again, is part of the problem. 75.142.152.104 (talk) 16:50, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

STOP VANDALIZING COMMENTS! 76.66.195.196 (talk) 07:48, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Requested move (July 2010)

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The result of the move request was: Move. Also moving tunnel rat (military) to the undisambiguated title. Jafeluv (talk) 03:48, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

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Tunnel rat → Tunnel rat (disambiguation) — redirecting to Tunnel rat (military) 75.142.152.104 (talk) 21:14, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

• Tunnel rat is a Vietnam War with no obvious primary target. Until that is sorted out, the present title of this article makes sense because at least we have a proper article here. 75.142.152.104 (talk) 21:21, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

• Speedy close and troutslap as bludgeoning the issue to death, including a cut-and-paste move by the user 75.142.152.104 after s/he didn't get their way the last time this was up a few weeks ago. 76.66.193.119 (talk) 21:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
  • Except that this isn't the primary usage of "tunnel rat" either, so it should redirect to the dab page. 75.142.152.104 (talk) 21:55, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
    • The purpose of dab pages is to get people to articles. No prejudice on a move/redirect once there is a proper article to redirect them to, but we don't send people to nonexistent pages just because of a feeling that a subject we don't currently cover might be the primary use. 75.142.152.104 (talk) 22:01, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
      • Put it this way, on the dab page are all more likely targets than the current article at this name, so it is not the proper target, whatever the case, so should be a dab page. 75.142.152.104 (talk) 05:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
• Comment Despite the fact that the proposer doesn't make any sense in their explanation, there may be a justifiable case for a change with this one. A very quick Google search seems to suggest that, in the first few pages of results, the Vietnam term is by far the most common use, and could well be the primary topic. It may well be worth moving Tunnel rat (military) to Tunnel rat. Skinsmoke (talk) 10:20, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support. This is not the primary usage of "Tunnel rat", so this should redirect to the Vietnam War. 75.142.152.104's argument isn't coherent: there already is a Vietnam War for Tunnel rat, and it already does "get people to articles". 75.142.152.104 (talk) 17:38, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
  • Comment this opinion was left by the nominator, and seems like double voting to me. 76.66.193.119 (talk) 04:45, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

• Support (I think.) To be more precise, support moving Tunnel rat (military) → Tunnel rat and Tunnel rat → Tunnel rat (disambiguation) per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. — AjaxSmack 03:45, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support (I think...well, maybe!). Seriously, AjaxSmack has got it right on this one. Skinsmoke (talk) 15:49, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

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