Talk:Alp (folklore)

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The horror game Outlast features the Walrider --184.161.146.190 (talk) 16:46, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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Where is all this coming from? The sources don't seem to be linked to the relevant information, or even contain much of the information in the article.

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Requested move 22 October 2019

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Sceptre (talk) 02:57, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

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• Alp (folklore) → Alp
• Alp → Alp (disambiguation)

– WP:PRIMARYTOPIC with a daily average of 200+ pageviews, compared to low traffic for everything else on the disamiguation page. Alps is a WP:PLURALPT however. _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 08:23, 22 October 2019 (UTC)--Relisting. Cúchullain ^t/c 19:26, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose - If we were to follow WP:PLURALPT, then I'd say that Alp should redirect to Alps as the clear primary topic as that's what the guideline says. A ~200 daily viewed article is clearly not the primary topic here. --Gonnym (talk) 08:56, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

• I don't believe the term "Alp" is commonly used to describe "the Alps"._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 09:11, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

No, it is used to describe a single meadow, see below: In ictu oculi (talk) 22:46, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

• Support. Clearly the most sought after topic with this title per pageview stats and one with a suitable amount of long-term significance. An "alp" is also defined as "a high rugged mountain" [1] but that's very much in WP:DICDEF territory, and I'm also not convinced that it would commonly be used to refer to "the Alps". WP:PLURALPT also says "Sometimes, however, a plural form will establish a separate primary topic", which incidentally is also true of the current arrangement. PC78 (talk) 17:53, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose. alp was actually used in the singular for older English texts about pasture management in Switzerland, although the singular term Alp (meadow) is now Alm (meadow) in standard modern Swiss German. But you still find alp used instead of alm: Glenn George Stevenson - 1984 "On the alps of Korporation Uri, the alp overseers are rather close to the users , since they are elected by the users of each alp from among their own number. They have the primary duty, however, of making sure the meadow is protected ..." So no. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:44, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

• You are arguing about the page conflicting with an article that doesn't exist. Alm (meadow) isn't an article either. It just redirects to Alpine tundra which I am fairly sure isn't referred to as "alp"._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 23:33, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose. "Alp" is very commonly used as the singular of "Alps" (e.g. an Alp). This is far commoner than this supernatural being. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:57, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose - this is a relatively typical case where an unambiguous plural PT casts just enough shadow on the singular in order to send it to a dab. Consider Wells as a similar case in the reverse. Red Slash 21:08, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

• Again, have never heard of the so-called "common" use of "Alp" to describe the Alps. As PC78 stated, "Alps" is a plural primary topic. Any proof of this?_{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 21:47, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

• I just looked it up. You're right. I take back my !vote and put neutral. Red Slash 22:48, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

• For common usage, you might like to look at this! Plenty of examples of "Alp" being used in the singular to describe a mountain. Also from the OED: "Alp, n.1... In plural. The range of mountains occupying much of Switzerland and adjacent countries. In singular: a mountain in this range." The singular usage is first recorded in 1790, so it's not a neologism either. Official? Probably not. Common? Certainly. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:24, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Google Ngrams says something different. "Climbed an Alp" doesn't even register. It's not at all common, and some assorted results scraped from anywhere on the internet doesn't change that._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 05:11, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Breaking news! Oxford English Dictionary no longer a valid source and may safely be ignored (completely, it appears, since that was obviously an inconvenient truth) if editor has not heard of a term it lists! Seriously, I've heard it used in the singular many times and have proved my case. Just because you haven't doesn't invalidate my own experience backed up by sources (and yes, the Google search does prove common usage). -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:57, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

@Red Slash: how is Well/Wells comparable to Alp/Alps? The holes are commonly known as both "well" and "wells" but because "Wells" has lots of meanings (like the city in Somerset) its a DAB instead of a redirect to Well. A closer comparison in reverse might be Blue v Blues since colours can't really be pluralized (Orange/Oranges) even though things that are a colour are themselves sometimes pluralized for example in Monopoly people often say "the reds" or "the oranges". I don't have any evidence of this but to me "Alp" does mean the mountain range. However I'd note that a Google search for alps returns nothing but Alkaline phosphatase on the 1st page of results but obviously that doesn't take capitalization into account. Comparisons similar to here might be Hebrides/Hebride (the redirect only has 1 mainspace link, William Piers (constable) and another from a sandbox, User:Infinitas.is/sandbox) and Orkney Islands/Orkney Island (which is also the name of an individual island in Canada). Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:17, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

• Comment the only example of a mountain being called an Alp (well, Alpe) I can find offhand is Alpe d'Huez. power~enwiki (π, ν) 18:29, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

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