Talk:Birdsong (disambiguation)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved for primary topic; incoming wikilinks appear to counter the traffic stats for the novel. -- JHunterJ (talk) 02:05, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

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Birdsong → Birdsong (disambiguation) – I just do not see how Bird vocalization can not be the primary topic for "Birdsong". Every place or person sharing this name is likely derived from an effort to evoke the song of birds. I would redirect this title to Bird vocalization (to which Bird song already redirects), with a hatnote there noting the disambig. bd2412 T 22:47, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

• Support - should do as Bird song and redirect. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:13, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
• Support. This is "insanely" obvious. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ɖ^⊝כ^⊙þ Contrib. 22:04, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
• Support and speedy close Can't see why anyone would consider opposing this. elvenscout742 (talk) 05:20, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose. The novel has twice the traffic of Bird vocalization. On that basis alone the disambiguation page should remain. Tassedethe (talk) 05:53, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

But no one reads the novel or the Wikipedia article on the novel without an awareness of the title being a reference to a real-world phenomenon. Having a hatnote on Bird vocalization that specifically mentions the novel seems reasonable. Although I'm not very well-versed in disambig issues -- is what I just suggested in violation of a guideline somewhere? elvenscout742 (talk) 06:17, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

• I would note that I fixed all of the incoming links to this article before making this proposal, and not a single one of them was intended to be directed to the novel. See, e.g., [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17]. When editors make links to this title, it is clear that they understand the primary topic of the title to be the songs of birds. bd2412 T 13:02, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

• Support. Birsong might be a (well-deserved) "flavo/ur of the month/year/age" now, but birdsong (as in "bird vocalization") has had and likely will sustain more attention over an ever longer period of time, no..? CsDix (talk) 18:46, 12 February 2013 (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.