Talk:Location (disambiguation)

absolute location is exact position, relative location is position of a place often identified by direction or somewhere nearby.

Requested move 8 May 2018

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: Move Location → Location (disambiguation) and Location (geography) → Location; no consensus on the others. Cúchullain ^t/c 14:52, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

– The WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for “location” and “place” is the geographical concept of location, so Location should be the name of that article, and Place should be a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to it. None of the other articles currently listed at Location or Place are candidates to be the primary topic.

“Site” is a little trickier, since the word is also widely known as a version of “website”. However, because that use of it is actually derived from the geographical meaning, I propose that Site should also be a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to Location. (We already have Site (internet) as a redirect to Website.)

I think it’s clear that “location” is an encyclopedic subject that deserves an article, even though the one at Location (geography) is woefully inadequate at the present. The dabs need cleanup as well, but that’s all beside the point of this proposed set of moves. — Gorthian (talk) 07:42, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support – it looks a primary topic for me that can make a geographical mass. ApprenticeFan work 10:43, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose "site", support the rest - "site" is not obviously primary topic. Web sites are a fairly popular thing, I've heard. Red Slash 11:47, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Strongly oppose "Site", neutral on rest. I'm neutral on the first three, but there's no CLEAR primary topic for Site (per above). Paintspot Infez (talk) 16:03, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
S, S, O, O:
- Mildly support location. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:47, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Strongly oppose "place". This is an extremely broad term, no way there is a primary meaning for it. Also, I highly doubt anyone is going to wikilink such a platitude word "place". Staszek Lem (talk) 21:47, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Mildly oppose "site". Staszek Lem (talk) 21:47, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support all. Clear primary topics. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:00, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- How is it clear? — AjaxSmack 16:20, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose site. Neutral on the others. —Xezbeth (talk) 14:31, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support Location, Location (geography) accepting primary topic argument. Oppose the other 2: they're fine as they are. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 12:57, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose all per WP:NOTDICT (Wikipedia is not a dictionary). "...It’s clear that 'location' is an encyclopedic subject that deserves an article" is unsupported and is crystalballish. Create the article and then propose a move. As of now, location (geography) is a DICDEF, and probably always will be one. Filming location (i.e., "on location") has more encyclopedic potential and Khalid's song has more encyclopedic notability. As the nominator points out, "None of the other articles currently listed at Location or Place are candidates to be the primary topic"; this an argument for the status quo. — AjaxSmack 16:19, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support first two, oppose last two - Place and Site are vague enough that they don't necessarily mean location. However, Location (geography) should be primary topic._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 02:39, 14 May 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.