Talk:For You (Ricky Nelson song)
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Requested move
edit- The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: do not move. — ξxplicit 07:55, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
For You (Ricky Nelson song) → For You (1933 song) — Songs are typically disambiguated either by original performer (for more recent songs) or by original year of publication (for older ones). These are two objective criteria that avert arguments about which version is most significant, popular, etc. The article should be located at (1933 song), not dabbed by identifying it with a particular later performer.—ShelfSkewed Talk 16:13, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose Naming it for a specific performer is imperfect, but it seems much more likely to be identified as a Ricky Nelson song than as a song written in 1933. Ideally in such cases, the performer who released the song first is also the best-known performer of the song, so you can just label it with that name and it works okay. But if users are unlikely to recognize the earliest performer, how can they be expected to recognize the year that the earliest performer released it? Propaniac (talk) 17:01, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
- And, for what it's worth, WP:NCM says: "Disambiguate albums and songs by artist and not by year unless the artist releases multiple albums with the same name." Propaniac (talk) 17:02, 19 February 2010 (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. No further edits should be made to this section.
Revisit page move
editI'm in favor of renaming the article to For You (1933 song). One cannot define this song as a Ricky Nelson song, since it had existed for 30 years before he ever recorded it. Older hit songs were often sung by many artists and sometimes even released at the same time (see Young Love (1956 song), and it is not correct to disambiguate by the "biggest hit" version. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 00:04, 2 March 2010 (UTC)