Talk:Fall River

Fall River, Massachusetts

Shouldn't "Fall River" redirect to Fall River, Massachusetts, with a hatnote to a disambiguation page, as is the case with Pittsfield, Massachusetts? No other cities on this page are nearly as notable as the MA city, and almost all links at Special:Whatlinkshere/Fall River point to Fall River, MA. Does anyone else agree that this page should be moved? Cheers, Rai-me 01:29, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

As the links point to the Massachusetts city, and it is by far the most populated and historically significant place on the dab page, I have decided to be WP:BOLD and redirect "Fall River" to Fall River, Massachusetts, renaming the dab page Fall River (disambiguation). I also performed a Google serach, and nearly all results point to the MA city. Cheers, Rai-me 15:04, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Requested move 22 September 2023

The following is a closed 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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Elli (talk | contribs) 04:03, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

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Fall River (disambiguation) → Fall River – It's been 15 years since this was last discussed and there are now many more "Fall River" articles. Unlike pages like Pittsfield which point to the most populated place with that proper name, "Fall River" is a fairly generic river name. There are many articles on rivers with that name which have nothing to do with the Massachusetts city—it's this component which I think makes it important not to assume that people around the world will automatically think of one city when reading "Fall River". I've already disambiguated all the links to Fall River so the move will not cause issues. Some of the links incorrectly pointed to the Massachusetts city when they should have pointed to other articles, so the move should also avoid these such issues in the future. QuincyMorgan (talk) 17:35, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

• Comment. My gut reaction is that there is probably no primary topic here, but it would be nice to know the page view stats for these articles. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:02, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nomination. There are 28 entries listed upon the Fall River (disambiguation) page, with no clear indication that the historical as well as current prominence of Massachussetts' tenth-largest city is so immense that it overwhelms the combined notability of the remaining 27 entries. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 18:04, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
• Support per QuincyMorgan and Roman Spinner. --Cyfal (talk) 22:07, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
• Support – More stats would certainly not be enough to convince us that the current primary redirect makes sense. Dicklyon (talk) 00:18, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
• Support precisely per nom, and those above. BD2412 T 02:14, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.