Talk:Flavours (album)

Requested move 13 July 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved to Flavours (album). Jenks24 (talk) 12:12, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

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Flavours → Flavours (The Guess Who album) – As it stands redirecting non-American readers to an album is hilarious (if you have a sense of humo[u]r), but apart from that, it's also a magnet for mislinks from food articles where Canadian, British, Irish and Australian editors have been editing. Flavors (album) redirects to American R&B girl group Tiffany Affair, so the band name would be advisable but Flavours (album) is possible if we think hiding The Guess Who will help those looking for The Guess Who album. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:11, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

• Support. This should obviously redirect to Flavor. Zarcadia (talk) 12:35, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:PLURALPT. Dohn joe (talk) 14:30, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Any evidence that this is the primary meaning of the term flavours? I find that questionable since flavours is the plural of flavour which is how flavor is spelled outside the US (Canada, UK, etc).At this time I would support the move. There is also precidence for this when the article Parachutes was moved to Parachutes (album). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.68.29.1 (talk) 14:53, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes actually. The UK/US spelling difference actually helps us out here. We can look at the pageviews for "Flavours" vs. "Flavors" and see if one gets significantly more than the other. If yes, there is presumably a reason. Here are the pageviews for June:

• Flavours: 627 views
• Flavors: 175 views

That's 3.5x more people viewing "Flavours" than "Flavors". The likeliest reason for the difference between the two is that people are looking for the album. I would also point to the relatively few mislinks to "Flavours" meaning the taste sensation. Dohn joe (talk) 15:13, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

• Support per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Flavor is far more significant than the current article. Sovereign Sentinel (talk) 15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

  Of course it is. But we have separate primary topics for singulars and plurals when the plural form has a primary topic in its own right. See Snickers, Windows, Friends, etc. Dohn joe (talk) 15:13, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

But as you know, we no longer have primary topics of this sort Talk:Parachutes (album) and Talk:Bookends (album) you fought against - but they have all been moved in a series of RM with those 3 left behind as untouchables. And in this case no one would claim an old Canadian album rivals the food industry. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:44, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

• Note: A move to Flavours (album) would be sufficient disambiguation since the Tiffany Affair album currently does not have an article. Sovereign Sentinel (talk) 15:10, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
  • Whether a topic name has a separate article or not is irrelevant. See WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT, which says "The fact that an article has a different title is not a factor in determining whether a topic is primary. On the other hand, the Tiffany Affair album does not appear very notable. —BarrelProof (talk) 16:02, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

• Mouderate suppourt per WP:PRIMARYTOUPIC, but I would mouve it to Flavours (album) instæad. Red Slash 16:07, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support per WP:PLURALPT: "Since most articles (like Chair) are at the singular, the normal situation is that a plural redirects to its singular. For instance, Chairs is a redirect page, taking readers directly to Chair." This album is not the primary meaning of "flavours". "Flavours" should obviously redirect to "Flavor". —BarrelProof (talk) 17:56, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support per BarrelProof -- 67.70.32.20 (talk) 05:06, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support. Flavours should obviously redirect to Flavor, as do Flavour and Flavors. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:21, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support per commonsense. It is beyond my comprehension that anybody should oppose this move. --Richhoncho (talk) 09:31, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support. Flavours should obviously redirect to Flavor. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:52, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

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