Talk:Blast Off (video game)

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The result of the move request was: move. DrKiernan (talk) 17:08, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

– no primary topic here. In ictu oculi (talk) 23:18, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Hard to see why this would be the primary topic. Also hard to see how any of the listings on the DAB page would be either. Calidum ^{Talk To Me} 00:35, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Clear lack of a primary topic. bd2412 T 02:31, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
support per nom -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 04:01, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. No evidence to nom's claim that there is no primary topic here. This article is (surprisingly) getting hundreds of views per month [1]. None of the other uses are (not counting partial title matches, of course, which should not even be on the dab page.) This is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. --В²C ☎ 00:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear "Blast Off" is the explosive takeoff portion of a rocket launch. I am surprised we have no mention of that phrase in either article, or here. bd2412 T 18:16, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User:BD2412, yes; I just added Rocket launch as second line of dab, it should move to be in lede sentence of dab if this RM is completed. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:34, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 23:03, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Steel1943 (talk) 16:54, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support as it makes the title descriptive. Omnedon (talk) 16:12, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support, per nom. Born2cycle: This page gets a surprising number of page views because, obviously, lots of people do not expect an article on this ancient video game when they go to that article title. I know you know better than to try to use WP as a reliable source to prove something external to WP, like how many people are actually interested in X vs. Y vs. Z with overlapping names. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 11:24, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- SMcCandlish, the vast majority of page views results from search engine searches that take users directly to the article they seek. I see no reason for this article to be any different. When I Google "Blast off", I get sent to this game page. So Google search has determined that the game (which I never heard of) remains very popular.
  Anyway, it appears that this proposal will succeed. Assuming it is moved, care to make a gentleman's wager on what the page views will reveal 6 months from now with respect to how often this article is viewed after some time at a disambiguated title versus other uses of "Blast off"? --В²C ☎ 17:27, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Born2cycle: Google is not top-listing the 1989 game Blast Off that is the subject of this article, but rather a children's nutritional education Flash-based game (that weirdly uses a NASA space program metaphor). It has nothing at all to do with the subject of the article currently at Blast Off, and is just more proof that this should be a disambiguation page. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 23:02, 25 August 2014 (UTC) self moderated 01:54, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - @SMcCandlish: Oops. Okay, point taken. But how about this? If this page is moved and, 6 months from now, remains the most-viewed use of "Blast Off" on WP, will you support its move back to the base name? --В²C ☎ 23:39, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      - Of course not; again: WP cannot be used as a reliable source for anything on WP, including popularity/primacy of title. Any number of factors, even a single link on popular blog, can drastically affect WP pageview ratios. (This actually could happen and may be happening, because there are a very large number of gaming sites, and plenty of them run "retrogaming" articles; there's a notable online subculture devoted to writing emulators for old game systems, and painstakingly re-recreating games that cannot be emulated from original ROMs.) WP:COMMONNAME and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC are both dependent on external reality, not WP's little microcosm. I'd be faintly interested in seeing what the actual result is, but page hits here don't set policy. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 01:54, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      - "Oops"?? Sorry but WP:AGF is being sorely tested here suggesting that some Users don't actually look at articles before generating text wall minority opinion in RMs. There's no way that anyone could mistake the 2014 United States Department of Agriculture flash for the 1989 Japanese subject of this Japan article: ブラストオフ Burasuto Ofu if they had even glanced at the lede and infobox prior to jumping into Talk. Excuse me, but think that needed saying. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:21, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        I thought it was an Internet version of the arcade game. --В²C ☎ 18:01, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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