Talk:Blur

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* Support for main reasons stated above. ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 22:17, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Noticed that someone has changed 'Blur, a British band' to 'Blur, an English band' on this page. Does Wikipedia have any particular views on this? I'm English but I would always use the word British to describe my nationality and the nationality of others from Britain over the particular part of the UK I/they come from...Cavie78 10:11, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: English/British

message: Blur (band) → Blur — 500 links point to Blur, a disambiguation page, but I doubt any are looking for a page related to optics.  All of the pages listed on the disambig page have titles sufficiently distinct from the band's name to avoid confusion.  Moving the Blur and Blur (band) to their natural homes makes more sense than fixing all those links Alcuin 23:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Obvious reasons?  --Alcuin 03:54, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm going through "what links here" and there are almost no links not referring to the band.  Sure, the band was likely named after the word, but people just aren't likely to wikilink the word blur.  After all, this isn't a dictionary, and there's not a whole lot to be said about the word blur except the definition.  Things were easier one month ago, there was no need to move things around.  --Alcuin 04:23, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move (failed) 

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* Support per above  Alcuin 23:46, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Obvious reasons?  --Alcuin 03:54, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey II

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I get the feeling no formal move request was made. Alc, perhaps you should check out Wikipedia:Requested moves. It might be informtive.
Now, while correct all the links may not seem practical, that is how things are often done. The band is by no means more notible or the most likely use to the searched for. Furthermore, the titles of the other pages were disambiguated for merely for overall clarity, not because of the band. Had the band never existed, the titles would still be as they are. I am sorry for the various—far over five hundred, and more like double that, last time I checked—ambiguous links. However, giving the title to the disambiguation page is far less biased, if that at all, than the way things used to be. Indeed, it seems the band's importance has been badly inflated. The band is named after the word "Blur", whose meaning is, at the moment, only explained here. In fact, I'd wager than at least a third of the links are for the term, not the band. Now, you can always join in the effort to correct the links, but I'm afraid this move request is unlikely to get you very far. Ace Class Shadow; User talk:My talk. 03:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going through "what links here" and there are almost no links not referring to the band.  Sure, the band was likely named after the word, but people just aren't likely to wikilink the word blur.  After all, this isn't a dictionary, and there's not a whole lot to be said about the word blur except the definition.  Things were easier one month ago, there was no need to move things around.  --Alcuin 04:23, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion II