Talk:Van the man

Latest comment: 10 years ago by EdJohnston in topic Requested move

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: No consensus. I can see some arguments for PRIMARYTOPIC but if we go by 'which article are people most likely to be looking for' the amount of page traffic does need to come into it. Van Morrison does not get more than 50% of the total page hits; the two football players are surprisingly popular. Google for 'van the man' johnson -wikipedia and 'van the man' morrison -wikipedia and the movie star is ahead by a factor of two. EdJohnston (talk) 03:50, 28 March 2014 (UTC)Reply


Van the manVan the Man (disambiguation) – I would suggest "Van the Man" most commonly refers to Van Morrison. Notably, the phrase doesn't appear in any of the other articles linked from the dab. The singer predominates in "van the man" -wikipedia, along with recent news stories about van Persie. Curiously, the phrase is essentially nonexistent in Google Books (Martin van Buren??). I'd like to see Van the man and Van the Man redirect to Van Morrison. The capitalization is of lesser importance, but since the phrase is a nickname for a person, it should probably be capitalized. BDD (talk) 18:56, 20 March 2014 (UTC)Reply