Talk:Shooter

Requested move 27 June 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. The lack of usage has been demonstrated here; shooting does not appear to be the primary topic for shooter, and should not be the primary redirect as such. (closed by non-admin page mover) Skarmory (talk • contribs) 05:24, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

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Shooter (disambiguation) → Shooter – This disambiguation page was at the base name "Shooter" until Mhockey moved it WP:BOLDly to establish Shooting as the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC (as a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT). While shooting does seem to be a good candidate in terms of long-term significance, in terms of usage, likely a small minority of users are interested in reaching the broad-concept article at Shooting and are instead seeking one of the other topics at the dab page, or even gun violence, thus there being no primary topic. I am not necessarily opposed to keeping things the way they currently are, but do feel like this should be discussed one way or the other. Mdewman6 (talk) 22:00, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Also, Shooters remains a redirect to the disambiguation page. If the result is not moved, it should be retargeted to Shooting to match the singular. Mdewman6 (talk) 22:12, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

• I agree that the move should be reverted because no actual rationale was apparently provided, and https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=Shooting is very much moot, with hatnotes at #1 and #3. --Joy (talk) 12:06, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nomination. There are 34 entries listed upon the Shooter (disambiguation) page where the putative primary topic — Shooter — is a redirect to Shooting, which has its own Shooting (disambiguation) page with 17 entries. There is also a Shoot (disambiguation) page with 19 entries. The primary topic on that page is "A shoot is an immature plant or portion of a plant." Brings to mind the book title Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:00, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
• I'd probably move Shoot (disambiguation) to the basename as there seems to be multiple significant topics but I'm less sure about this one. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:05, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
• Support No obvious primary topic here. Trying to establish a primary redirect only makes things more confusing. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:09, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose. Clear primary redirect. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:05, 4 July 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.