Talk:The Silver Linings Playbook

Move (2014)

Since the movie is called "Silver Linings Playbook" & this book is called "The Silver Linings Playbook" shouldn't this page be moved to The Silver Linings Playbook instead of that being a redirect to Silver Linings Playbook? --TheTruthiness (talk) 04:02, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Requested move (2015)

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The result of the move request was: moved. Ultimately we go by sources, and the consensus here is that in reliable sources, "The Silver Linings Playbook" overwhelmingly refers to the novel and is therefore the primary topic. Jenks24 (talk) 16:52, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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• The Silver Linings Playbook (novel) → The Silver Linings Playbook –

Film called Silver Linings Playbook, not The Silver Linings Playbook -- Kanghuitari (talk) 05:57, 10 September 2015 (UTC) Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 13:27, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose - seriously the presence or absence of "the" is not consistent in sources In ictu oculi (talk) 13:39, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support There is a small amount of confusion among sources (because the movie excluded "the" from the title), but we know without a doubt that the book's name begins with "The". And while the book is sometimes inaccurately discussed without its first word, a google news search confirms that use with the word "The" overwhelmingly refers to the novel.--Yaksar (let's chat) 14:07, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support - "The" (duh!). No pun intended. Shhhhwwww!! (talk) 17:42, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose - Taking Talk:The White Shadow (TV series) as precedent, "The" isn't sufficiently distinctive enough to differentiate the novel and the film adaptation. Also, the film adaptation (this month) is hugely more viewed than the novel (this month). Probably "The Silver Linings Playbook" would be a good redirect to the film adaptation, agree? --George Ho (talk) 18:47, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support. As Yaksar points out, sources that include the "The" overwhelmingly intend the novel rather than the film (Google News, Google Books). A hat note will work perfectly to get any confused readers where they want to go.--Cúchullain ^t/c 13:27, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose and proposal - As with George Ho, the use of the word "The" isn't sufficient to distinguish between the articles, and the average user probably doesn't know the difference. Although I would disagree with the use of the statistics, because it simply means that the inclusion of the word "The" is more prominent in search/views, and not necessarily indicative of them finding what they were looking for. We may want to either rename the movie to include the parenthetical "movie" and let the hat note stand alone. Tiggerjay (talk) 18:19, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

• Can you find uses of the title using "The" referring to the film instead of the book? Because I'm struggling to do so.--Yaksar (let's chat) 03:26, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

• Support per WP:TWODABS. A hatnote can point readers to the movie from here or vice versa. Calidum 23:16, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Reading the guideline, Calidum, both titles are applicable. In other words, the rule is insufficient as the disambiguation page is and should be nonexistent. WP:Primary topic should extend to this case as well as a rule to avoid ambiguous names (per WP:COMMONNAMES). George Ho (talk) 05:00, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

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Cultural references

Moved from article to talk. What is the significance of this to the article? Is this OR? RJFJR (talk) 00:09, 8 November 2015 (UTC) {{prose|section|date=September 2015}}<!-- this section might be better written as prose, and described as recurring themes in the book, the idea that pat thinks of his life as a movie. etc. -->

• Quick is a lifelong fan of the Philadelphia Eagles.
• Quick has said that that busload of Indian Eagles supporters is entirely fictionalized but something he would like to see happen in real life.
• Pat views his own life as a movie, and optimistic he will have a happy ending.
• Pat compares his therapist, Cliff, to Yoda from The Empire Strikes Back and thinks of himself as Luke Skywalker carrying Yoda on his shoulders during training on Dagobah.
• Pat takes inspirations from Rocky Balboa and compares his training for the dance competition to the montage in Rocky. "Gonna Fly Now" the theme tune to Rocky plays at his wedding.
• Tiffany and Pat dance to "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler.
• Pat reads The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

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