Talk:Bruce Wayne (1989 film series character)

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: Not moved to the proposed title, no consensus to change to any other specific title (and there is sufficient support for the status quo to not force a WP:NOTCURRENTITLE close. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:15, 23 March 2024 (UTC) * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:15, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bruce Wayne (1989 film series character) → Bruce Wayne (1989 film series) – Per WP:CONSISTENCY with Peter Parker (The Amazing Spider-Man film series). I know that there is also Superman (1978 film series character), but I think that this case is much more similar to the first one: "Superman" is an ambiguous name due to the fact that it could be both the name of the character and of the film series Redjedi23 (talk) 10:09, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another idea could be to be consistent with

Batman (1989 film series character). It depends if you prefer the civil name or the superhero alias. Redjedi23 (talk) 12:35, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply

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• Comment: By Wikipedia's naming standards, the main request makes it sound like there was a series of films with the general title Bruce Wayne that was released in 1989. I think we need the "character" part appended. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 15:43, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Uhm, you're right. Effectively, for TASM it makes sense to not have "character" in the title because it is already stated the film series name, while in this case we only have the year in which the film series started.

  What do you think about the move to

  Batman (1989 film series character)? Looking at the sources in the page I think that this is the most used name to define the character. Redjedi23 (talk) 15:47, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply

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  I'm fine with that move. I think TASM needs "character" too but recognize that makes it very bloated in parenthetical disambiguation. It's a weird reflection of how limited language can be to pinpoint one topic of many similar ones under a particular scope (in this case, Spider-Man). We have multiple Peter Parkers, we have multiple film series, we have multiple meanings of TASM. Phew! Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 16:01, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose proposed title, but no objection to
  Batman (1989 film series). 162 etc. (talk) 17:48, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose
  Batman (1989 film series character) as more natural search term than tying to shoehorn both "Bruce Wayne" and "Batman" in the title. I don't think these character articles should be avoiding the mention of "character" in a case like this where the "1989 film series" DAB can refer to either the character of the films themselves, and the character is more commonly known as "Batman" in association with this film series. TASM example is not the best here to support consistency as it does not use years in the DAB, though the Superman example is what we should follow. Trailblazer101 (talk) 21:29, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose although disambiguation in the form of Foo (bar) does not necessarily imply foo is a type of bar, this scenario is far too ambiguous given (film series) is widely used to disambiguate film series. Disambiguating by director or actor is also not possible, so this is our only option. InfiniteNexus (talk) 23:06, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• No opinion, but if the parenthetical changes, it should be to Bruce Wayne (1989 Batman film series) rather than Bruce Wayne (Batman 1989 film series), otherwise it sounds like "Batman 1989" is the name of the originating film. BD2412 T 23:41, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose but definitely move somewhere. Article title is misleading as it stands, as there is no 1989 film series called "Bruce Wayne". "Batman" needs to be included somewhere in the article title, but no strong preference as to which option. --woodensuperman 09:21, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  The current title is not misleading. It says 1989 film series character, emphasis added. InfiniteNexus (talk) 00:11, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Yes it is misleading, as it doesn't say which film series. Could be a 1989 series of anything. It needs to explicitly mention Batman. Superman (1978 film series character) makes sense as the film series and the character share the name. --woodensuperman 11:38, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose and keep as is. As noted above, character is needed to clarify that this isn't a film series in itself. I don't see a pressing need to add any reference to Batman though.  — Amakuru (talk) 19:19, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]