Talk:White Gold

Requested move 2 May 2017

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: not moved. (non-admin closure) TonyBallioni (talk) 02:35, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

White Gold → White gold (disambiguation) – This is a disambiguation page, it should be labeled as a disambiguation page. ~~Paul~~ (talk) 02:59, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:59, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@FalsePaul: Better discuss this request. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:59, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. ~~Move to White Gold (disambiguation).~~ All of the listed pages are capitalized, unlike the alloy, so the dab title should also be capitalized. The capitalized form doesn’t appear to have a primary topic~~, but I’m undecided on whether White Gold proper should redirect to the dab or to white gold~~. —67.14.236.50 (talk) 05:15, 2 May 2017 (UTC) edited 05:11, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. White gold (lowercase g in gold) is already a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to the appropriate section of Colored gold. Unless a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "White Gold" (uppercase G in Gold) is identified (and one hasn't been), the dab page should remain at the base name. That is, anyone searching for White Gold (uppercase G) is unlikely to be searching for the alloy. But just in case, the alloy is listed on the dab page anyway, so we're good.--В²C ☎ 06:03, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- I hadn't realized that "white gold" redirected to the article and "White Gold" redirected to the dab page. Knowing that, I'll agree with you. ~~Paul~~ (talk) 02:58, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- @Born2cycle: That’s a fair point. But it still doesn’t seem like a great idea to disambiguate the dab page just on capitalization when there is a primary topic. —67.14.236.50 (talk) 04:32, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  - Just saw The Wörld Is Yours (album) and The World Is Yours (dab) listed at WP:DIFFCAPS. So, never mind. —67.14.236.50 (talk) 05:11, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per B2C. We have lots of DAB pages that aren't labelled as such, when there isn't a primary topic. Laurdecl ^talk 09:24, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

For some examples, see Category:Disambiguation pages. Most of them do not have a suffix. Laurdecl ^talk 09:27, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support. No, there is not usually any need to label a disambiguation page as such. However, I think in this instance where the difference is only a single capital letter it is in the interests of Wikipedia to do so. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:18, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Why? If someone searches with "White gold" they're probably looking for the alloy and that's where they'll be taken. Just in case, there is a link to the White Gold dab page there. Likewise, if someone searches with "White Gold" they're probably looking for one of the uses named White Gold on the dab page, and that's where they're taken. Just in case, there is a link to the alloy there. How are anyone's interests served better by changing this? --В²C ☎ 20:20, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- I think its worth mentioning that searching for "white gold" (caps or not) on Google will serve the dab page, and not the main article. Also - I don't know about you all, but I never capitalize letters in my searches on Wikipedia. ~~Paul~~ (talk) 02:10, 5 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per nonsensical rationale that doesn't understand that disambig pages are not normally "labelled" as such. However, moving to White gold I would support, since disambiguation is good. Dicklyon (talk) 05:54, 5 May 2017 (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.