Talk:Gapes

Requested move 1 October 2017

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The result of the move request was: moved DrStrauss talk 13:35, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Gapes (disambiguation) → Gapes – I have created this disambiguation page because I do not believe that Mike Gapes, to which Gapes now points, is the primary topic of the word "Gapes". I propose deleting the existing redirect and moving the new disambiguation page there. bd2412 T 23:31, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support He doesn't appear in the first page of a Google Books or Google News search for "Gapes". Individuals are almost never the WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT for a common surname/place name. 59.149.124.29 (talk) 06:44, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Thanks for creating the dab page but I don't see any evidence supporting the claim that this Gapes is not the primary topic relative to the other uses on your new dab page. A compelling comparison of page view counts would cause me to change my mind. I would check it out myself, but I believe this is the responsibility of the proposer. --В²C ☎ 18:33, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Page views are irrelevent, since the current redirect target is named "Mike" Gapes, not merely "Gapes". In fact, I have just found another use of the term, for the disease caused by the Gapeworm, which by itself would be the more likely primary topic of the term. bd2412 T 19:44, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Per concerns raised by the nom._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 21:15, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. There is not WP:PRIMARY topic, and we should pretty much never redirect a normal English word to a specific individual bio of someone who uses a two-part or longer name. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 02:07, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom and the good point by SMcC above. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 06:15, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. There is no "primary topic" for "Gapes". Steel1943 (talk) 02:37, 6 October 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.