Talk:Zits (comics)

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Latest comment: 3 months ago by 98.55.69.37 in topic Way wrong date

Updated The List of Books

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I've updated the list of books to included the latest book, "My Bad", as well as the previous two books since they had yet to be added and I've also added the next forthcoming book to the list as well. 75.108.14.92 (talk) 23:04, 1 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 28 March 2018

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The result of the move request was: consensus to move the comics article to Zits (comics), and no consensus to move the disambiguation page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 05:28, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply


– As well known as the comic is, I feel like this is should really be a primary redirect to pimple, which the title of the strip clearly references. When someone is searching for "zits", they have a very good chance to be searching for actual pimples and not the comic strip. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 22:10, 28 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

  • The notion that you can decide that someone searching with "zits" wants the pimple article is pretty poor. This is the function of a search engine, with continuous AI optimization. A google search for "zits" reveals top hits for the comics, pimples and acne. A Wikipedia search for "zits" turns up top his for the comics, pimples, acne, as well as Flight (novel), Wadjet and The Ziggens, the latter three being viable possibilities on examination. DAB pages are very light, very quick to load. Zit and Zits should either go to a DAB page or invoke the search engine. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:30, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
  • DAB pages are about as heavy as most averages pages on en.wiki due to the extra stuff for the header and left menu, when it comes down to byte count served to the user. This is not a very convincing argument. --Masem (t) 00:33, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
  • Are you selecting one point in isolation? Pimple and Zit (comics) are heavy enough if the page is not what you wanted. True, when my internet connection is poor, looking at the blank page with logo and menus is pretty frustrating already, but I assure, I have pages even give up download while the images are loading. The frustration of getting the pimple article when you quickly realise you didn't want it, whether wanting acne or the comics, are the small chance of the other options, is real, and usually you have to suck it up and wait, because clicking new links, or using the back button and a bad connection usually makes things much worse. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:45, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
Silly? Bogus? Never in the real world do I find documents give ultrabrief titles followed by notes explaining what other topics might have been confused with that title. Have you? Hatnotes are a crutch, handling the confusion created by inadequate titling, and consuming the prime real estate of the article. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:23, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
No, they are a necessary element of the fact that multiple diverse topics can have the same exact or near-exact name, and the MediaWiki software cannot have two different pages at the same name. And in the real world, this happens all the time with book indicies (which is serving the same purpose as our title search engine). I fully agree that if there is a natural solution to reduce hatnotes for a set of articles, great, but what is proposed is not a natural solution (zits as slang for pimples), nor will reduce the number of hatnotes needed. --Masem (t) 00:29, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
User:Masem, I have read this a few times but cannot understand, "what is proposed is not a natural solution". I oppose zit as a primary redirect to pimple, is that the unnatural proposal? zit should point to the DAB page, or be the DAB page, be be deleted. I think I have proposed a natural solution that eliminates the hatnotes for these pages. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:22, 2 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
I consider it a solution that respects common name principles and doesn't have us renaming articles and bending over backwards to avoid name conflicts with odd disamb phrasing or the like. But as I've pointed out before, between this comic and Zit (comic) (a wholly separate topic), we still need a hatnote on this page whether it is moved or not, and similarly on Zit (comic). --Masem (t) 13:46, 2 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Requested move 20 August 2018

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page to the proposed title at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 01:48, 28 August 2018 (UTC)Reply


Zits (comics)Zits (comic strip) – Per WP:NAME (see Curtis (comic strip) and Pickles (comic strip)). Erpert blah, blah, blah... 19:18, 20 August 2018 (UTC)Reply


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Requested move 14 March 2021

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Calidum 01:30, 22 March 2021 (UTC)Reply



Zits (comics)Zits – In the plural, it is the only valid article, no need for redirect to Zit (dismbiguation). UserTwoSix (talk) 19:18, 14 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

This is a contested technical request (permalink). GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 23:20, 14 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
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Way wrong date

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Surprisingly, it says in the first paragraph that the strip began in 1965, but the more developed origin story dates it to 1997, which I’m sure is the proper date. The first paragraph needs correction. 98.55.69.37 (talk) 18:33, 25 July 2024 (UTC)Reply