Talk:Boring

Requested move 20 April 2019

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The result of the move request was: Consensus to move, therefore, moved. There is no clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, so disambiguation page should be at this title. (closed by non-admin page mover) Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 13:12, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

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Boring (disambiguation) → Boring – While "boring" perhaps most commonly refers to Boredom in everyday speech, it is certainly not what most people would commonly search for on an encyclopedia. People expect article titles to be WP:NOUNs, and anything else would WP:ASTONISH them. As an encyclopedic term "Boring", Boring (earth) is at least as prominent, if not more so, as Boredom. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:22, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

• Support per nom. In ictu oculi (talk) 12:01, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
• Comment - Still not a noun. Primergrey (talk) 13:37, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

A gerund like boring (earth) or boring (manufacturing) is a noun. "In machining, boring is the process of....." The placename Borings are also proper nouns. Dohn joe (talk) 15:51, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

As a standalone title boring is a verb. Primergrey (talk) 18:51, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Uuuuunless it's a gerund.... Dohn joe (talk) 15:49, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

• Support per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. There are a bunch of articles at the Boring disambiguation page, and none of them gets more views than the others combined, so no primarytopic here. Dohn joe (talk) 15:51, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
• Support per nom - no clear primary topic. Paintspot Infez (talk) 17:01, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
• Support. As of today, 10 out of 14 incoming mainspace wikilinks to "Boring" intend something other than "Boredom". Station1 (talk) 00:20, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
• Weak support adding Boredom to Dohn joe's views[[1]] is also helpful (since redirects tend to get less views because search engines don't land people on them) (of which could get people from Googling other terms, in particular "Boredom" its self) shows that although it gets 12,886 views, the others get 22,601 so there's probably no PT#1. Although I do think boredom is more common, indeed Boring (earth) is also common so I don't see a clear PT#2 either. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:06, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

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