Talk:Heavy metal

message: I've disambiguated several hundred links to heavy metal in the last week or so - all but two were to the musical genre.  I think we should make heavy metal redirect to the genre, and add a link at the top of the musical genre page to a heavy metal (disambiguation) page.  - Stillnotelf 02:19, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would not necessarily agree. I think the chemical term heavy metals is very important and commonly used; there is just a vast overrepresentation of music albums and bands in Wikipedia, because the articles are easier to create than chemistry articles. Basically you just have to create a list of songs, albums, and band members, but little encyclopaedic context. -- Ravn 16:15, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't get me wrong, I think the chemical meaning is equally important, I'm just trying to be pragmatic.  It seems more efficient to bow to the "vast overrepresentation" than continually clean up after new albums are created.  (After no one commented for 5 months, I realized it wasn't high-traffic enough to warrant worrying about it anyway, so I'm not going ahead with that plan.) -- stillnotelf has a talk page 16:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll agree to whatever is best for the readers. Which is worse: 500 incorrect links to the disambiguation page? Or 20 incorrect links to Heavy metal music (or a reader typing "Heavy metal" and hitting "Go") requiring a click on the dablink to get to the disambiguation page? (Bass has the same issue: 99% of the links intend Bass guitar.) Ewlyahoocom 10:40, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The redirect is now in place (thanks Ewlyahoocom). Equendil 23:41, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What's the over-under on when someone reverts it? Ewlyahoocom 08:34, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would add a direct link on Heavy metal music directly to Heavy metals to make it a 1-click to the chemistry meaning. You could add Template:Otheruses4 or combine and use Template:Two_other_uses Simon12 16:23, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Heavy metals should go to chemistry, the singular to the music. More people probably look at the article on the music than the elements. "Heavy Metal" returns 26,600,000 on google, and "heavy metals" 7,800,000 Duke toaster 16:19, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

text:  
Some stats make it clear that Heavy metal would best be redirected to Heavy metal music.
#3000+ page views for Heavy_metal_(chemistry)
#138000+ page views for Heavy_metal_music
#I've disambiguated 500+ links, 10 +/- were to Heavy_metal_(chemistry) , 1 was to the comic book, the rest were all to Heavy metal music
There seems to be clear consensus on this. --Faradayplank (talk) 07:32, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

text: NOTE: This discussion already began at Talk:Heavy_metal_music#Requested_move and the consensus there is to leave the dab as is and not to re-direct it to the music. The Real Libs-speak politely 11:03, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  An update on my comments above: Per the consensus at Talk:Heavy_metal_music#Requested_move I have no issue with this being a dab page and have nearly completed dab'ing the links to this page.   Faradayplank (talk) 20:42, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Replace with redirect to genre?

message: WARNING: Top 5 Can Make You Go Deaf Easily
20th) Midnight Explosion by Spikes Monsters
19th) Walk by Fleshcut
18th) Devil Driving by Spikes Monsters
17th) Union Of Churches by Spikes Monsters
16th) Plant Curtains by Biology Tripod
15th) S.C.R.E.A.M by Spikes Monsters
14th) Taking Pictures by Biology Tripod
13th) Flickering Candle by Fleshcut
12th) Ranging From Zero by Spikes Monsters
11th) Moonlight by Glowtrunk Elephant
10th) Sadism by Fleshcut
9th)  Wizard by Spikes Monsters
8th)  Knifesplitting by Fleshcut
7th)  Lion Of Zues by Spikes Monsters
6th)  Roar Song by Spikes Monsters
5th)  Divinity Magnificent by Spikes Monsters
4th)  Macarbe by Spikes Monsters
3rd)  Smile by Fleshcut
2nd)  Eardrum Assasin by Spikes Monsters
1st)  Bless Her Day by Biology Tripod
--222.154.167.248 (talk) 05:17, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top 20 Heaviest American Metal Songs On Record 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Heavy metal music which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 20:29, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Heavy metal music which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 15:45, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress