Talk:Mysterious Ways (song)

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Requested move 9 May 2016

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move  — Amakuru (talk) 20:35, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

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• Mysterious Ways (song) → Mysterious Ways
• Mysterious Ways → Mysterious Ways (disambiguation)

– The U2 song is clearly the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the term; the song is viewed more than twice as often as the short-run TV show [1] Calidum ¤ 19:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

• Oppose popularity-based primarytopic grab. The rationale of "viewed more than twice as often" is hardly convincing. Dicklyon (talk) 05:12, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
• Support satisfies WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for both views and significance. Nohomersryan (talk) 13:24, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose the page view figures 66% actually show a couple of dates when the TV show and song are 50/50. Given that there a few other minor subjects and that the hymn God Moves in Mysterious Ways is often miscalled "Mysterious Ways" this doesn't pass WP:PRIMARYTOPIC on either of the two criteria. In ictu oculi (talk) 20:30, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose - not sufficiently meeting of the requirements for WP:PRIMARYTOPIC; a 2:1 ratio is not "much more likely". - Ryk72 ^'c.s.n.s.' 21:58, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

How does 66 percent of views not meet the criteria that it be sought out "much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined," the criteria laid out at WP:PTOPIC? Calidum ¤ 01:15, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi Calidum, Respectfully, while I agree that 2:1 is "more likely than", I don't conceive that it is "much"-ly so. For "much more likely than", I would be looking at maybe 3:1 or higher. Hope this makes my !vote clearer. - Ryk72 ^'c.s.n.s.' 08:21, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

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single sales certifications?

This single went to #9 US and #13 UK, was year-end #57 US, and was released before the radio-only charting era. So why is it the only certification we've found so far is from ARIA? Does anyone know if the single got any certifications in the US and UK? AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 23:31, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

BTW, other singles that go to #50-#70 on a Billboard year-end Hot 100 seem to generally get certified gold (500,000 copies). So I guess that's the minimum U2 would have done, especially since I would think their chart position was more from single sales and less from radio than your typical year-end Hot 100 song. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 18:00, 4 April 2017 (UTC)