Talk:Tricolor (disambiguation)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived 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: moved Tricolour → Tricolour (flag), redirect Tricolour → Tricolor. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:52, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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Tricolor → Tricolour (disambiguation) – Tricolour. Alien Putsch resistant (talk) 19:16, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

• Oppose. Actually, Tricolour should redirect to the dab page at Tricolor, and the title of the article currently at Tricolour should be disambiguated. --B2C 22:51, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

  Counter proposal (to be clear)

  • Move Tricolour → Tricolour (flag)
  • Redirect Tricolour → Tricolor --B2C 07:01, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
• Oppose – per B2C, Tricolour should move to Tricolour (flag) and redirect to Tricolor. Dicklyon (talk) 23:53, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
• Oppose. We should retain the existing variety of spelling. Looking at the Tricolor disambiguation page, the number of "Tricolor" listings seem to be equal to the number of "Tricolour" listings. If anything, it should be Tricolor (disambiguation). Otherwise, this situation is just like tire (main article) and tyre (alternate spelling is a disambig page). Zzyzx11 (talk) 01:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
• Oppose But I also support B2C recommendation.--Labattblueboy (talk) 04:25, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
• Whatever happens, typing in "tricolor" and "tricolour" should get you to the same article. Good luck, closing administrator. Red Slash 04:46, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
• Oppose and agree that Tricolour should point here instead. bd2412 T 16:23, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Note that this page began life as a redirect to Tricolour. Per WP:RETAIN the original spelling should remain. The flag is the primary meaning and it makes no sense to have the disambiguation page at a different spelling. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:05, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
• Support per user:Necrothesp. Also, internal wikipedia consistency, per user:Red Slash, so "tricolor" should be a re-direct to "tricolour", as it was originally. ^walk victor falk ^talk 00:45, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
• Support per Necrothesp. "Tricolour" is preferred under WP:RETAIN, and is more widely used in any case. Xoloz (talk) 01:08, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

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.

Bad move

I've looked at the move request. I don't think the move made is the same as the move requested, and I don't think there was a consensus for it, and I think it was a bad idea. jnestorius^(talk) 11:59, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

@Jnestorius: No, it isn't the move requested. There was a clear consensus that tricolor and tricolour should point to the same place, and my reading of the discussion was that there was consensus to disambiguate the flag, per B2C's counter-proposal.

That second issue may not have been adequately fleshed out, so if you want to open a new proposal to undab it, feel free to do so.

I should perhaps have noted in my closure a thought which occurred to me, and which I did not factor into the close because it had not been raised in the debate. I am Irish, and the current Flag of Ireland is a tricolour. When people in Ireland refer to "the tricolour" or "a tricolour", they overwhelmingly mean the Irish tricolour, rather than the generic concept of 3-coloured flag. I suspect that the same applies in, for example, France ... and that in each country the primary meaning of "tricolour" is "our tricolour".

If that's correct, then the conceptual article currently at tricolour (flag), is not the primary topic. I hope that any further discussion will examine this question, possibly by looking at evidence of the actual usage in reliable sources. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:03, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm not impressed by that argument. One might make the same case for almost any foo for "Foo" pointing to "List of foos" rather than generic "foo"; as well as foo = "tricolor", it works for foo = national anthem, queen, president, or pub. At the age of three you realise that when other children say "daddy" they don't mean your daddy, they mean their daddy. jnestorius^(talk) 16:32, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Tricolour (flag) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 11:15, 18 November 2022 (UTC)