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The following discussion is an archived 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: Move primary topic of a WP:TWODABS. Salix (talk): 14:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Fortune (Nami Tamaki song)Fortune (song) – There's only one song "Fortune". 68.44.51.49 (talk) 13:40, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My problem with the redirect is that it gives readers little to nothing. If you already know enough to type in "Fortune (Great Big Sea song)" in a search box, maybe you learn the album it was on, though it's likely you knew that already. What you've done is fine with the vague wording of WP:NCM, but I'd think that needs to be subordinate to WP:DAB, "when a single term... refers to more than one topic covered by Wikipedia articles." The GBS song isn't a redlink, but it's not an article either. Again, if this were a single and likely to have an article at some point, I could live with this. But disambiguating against terms that are only redirects betrays guidelines like WP:NC by making it more difficult to find articles. --BDD (talk) 16:09, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. This is the only song named "Fortune" that has an article, and the only one that will ever have one. No need to give our readers the runaround. If necessary, the Great Big Sea song (or album) can be linked through a hat note.--Cúchullain t/c 13:19, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support There is another song named Fortune with sufficient notability to be mentioned in a WP article and have a redirect, Fortune (Great Big Sea song). However I think the principle of WP:TWODABS applies here, and, since only one of these songs actually has an actual article (this one), it should be the one with the hatnote to the Sea of No Cares. There is no benefit or policy based reason to redirect Fortune (song) to the music subsection of the Fortune dab page instead of moving this article there and having a hatnote link to the only other song named Fortune even referenced on WP. If there are more songs named Fortune sufficiently notable to be on WP, that changes everything. --B2C 20:24, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Not that I really need to be arguing with you, but there's no such thing as "sufficient notability to be mentioned in a WP article"; see WP:NNC. The existence of a redirect for the GBS song tells us nothing about its notability. If it had previously been an article, the issue might be different. --BDD (talk) 20:50, 25 February 2013 (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.