Talk:Palmer River

Recommended reference

Nomads of the 19th Century Queensland Goldfields by Lennie Wallace. (The Goldfields of Gympie, the Palmer and the Hogkinson) (sic-Hodgkinson) Pub: Queensland University Press (Outback Books) ISBN: 1 875998 89 6 User:Joanne Klein —Preceding undated comment added 13:37, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 4 December 2015

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Moved back. Per WP:RM, a controversial move must be discussed prior to being enacted. Because there was no consensus for the original move, and none has been demonstrated in this discussion, the title automatically reverts back to the status quo ante. bd2412 T 15:35, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

• Palmer River (Queensland) → Palmer River
• Palmer River → Palmer River (disambiguation)

– The Queensland river is by far the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, and had the overwhelming majority of incoming links before the unexplained move yesterday. I raised concerns about the move with the editor who did it, and he removed the message unanswered with a disingenuous edit summary. The Drover's Wife (talk) 10:34, 4 December 2015 (UTC) Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 15:38, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose - the larger of the two Australian rivers gets most in Google Books, but not overwhelming more than the other 3 rivers combined, and not helpful to users in North America. In ictu oculi (talk) 11:49, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
  • Nine out of the ten Google Books hits on each page are for the Queensland river, scrolling through several pages. How is that not overwhelming? The reliable sources overwhelmingly relate to this; a perceived lack of interest for North American readers is not a counterargument. The Drover's Wife (talk) 13:57, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
• Comment - I did not want to get involved in this but since I am being dragged in and named as the moving editor, I really have no choice but to respond. I was not the one who moved the article. I do not make those kind of decisions or edits. I simply make disambiguation edits after they are done. A search of my edit history will reveal this fact. I have no interest in deciding/debating whether an article is a primary topic or is better as a disambiguation page.Ulric1313 (talk) 23:41, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support. The move seemed unwarranted while the Queensland river is likely to be the most significant. - Shiftchange (talk) 09:59, 14 December 2015 (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.