Talk:Wind of Change

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Requested move 21 April 2018[edit]

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 15:56, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wind of Change → Winds of Change – WP:DABNAME – majority (16 of 27) of entries on the page use the plural form. Sangdeboeuf (talk) 08:50, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Galobtter (pingó mió) 18:59, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Sangdeboeuf and JE98: converted to RM Galobtter (pingó mió) 18:59, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support - predominance of the plural is demonstrated in this Google Ngrams comparison. -- Netoholic @ 19:06, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose we usually have dabs at singular, saves wasting time with this kind of distinction In ictu oculi (talk) 19:23, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Besides which nomination doesn't seem to be correct. Supermac and all In ictu oculi (talk) 19:24, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - DAB pages use the singular where article names are singular (as they usually are), and plural when articles use plural. Hence Scissors (disambiguation) and not Scissor (disambiguation). —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 01:15, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per WP:PLURAL. Titles should typically be singular regardless of the balance of plural vs singular._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 21:28, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- WP:PLURAL refers to titles of articles and doesn't address this kind of situation. A disambiguation page is not an encylopedia article; its title merely refers to the names of other things (which can be either singular or plural) rather than to the things themselves (usually referred to in the singular). In this case, most of those names (15 of 26 entries, or 7 of 13 blue-linked articles) use the plural Winds. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 02:56, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.