Talk:Counting Stars

The following discussion is an archived 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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Not moved.(

• Counting Stars (song) → Counting Stars
• Counting Stars → Counting Stars (disambiguation)

– Album was barely even popular in the first place. It had only ever been edited four times before the song came along and it's never been viewed more than 500 times in a month. Unreal7 (talk) 22:56, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose - the 2010
  WP:RECENT, but if it's really WP:PRIMARY in 2 years, then move it then. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:29, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Oppose per
  WP:TWODABS
   :-

If there are only two topics to which a given title might refer, but neither one is the primary topic, then it is appropriate to have a disambiguation page at the base name. For example, John Quested is a disambiguation page for the two people by that name who can be found in the encyclopedia:

John Quested may refer to:

• John Quested (aviator)
  (1893–1948), English World War I flying ace
• John Quested (producer) (born 1935), film producer and owner and chairman of Goldcrest Films

--Richhoncho (talk) 15:44, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose: Per
  WP:RECENT, move Counting Stars (song) to Counting Stars (One Republic song). —BarrelProof (talk) 21:07, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply
  ]

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 or in a move review

. No further edits should be made to this section.

The following discussion is an archived 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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Not moved and reopening as multimove. This has been around for a very long time, so I think it's time to call it, even though this is a non-admin closure. I think it's clear that the proposed move has not garnered enough consensus to go ahead (two support votes from User:BarrelProof and User:In ictu oculi), but there is a groundswell of support for taking it in the other direction to primary topic with five !votes (User:BDD, User:Red Slash, User:Tbhotch, User:Unreal7, User:Cuchullain). There was also the no move !vote from User:Contactman7. So I was tempted to say there was enough support to close it as "move to Counting Stars", but feel it's probably fairer to make that an explicit multi-move request with the associated notification for anyone watching the disambiguation page but not this one. So I'm reopening it below, and all are free to cast support or oppose votes as appropriate. (non-admin closure)  — Amakuru (talk) 20:20, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• I disagree with this move. The other "Counting Stars" songs do not have a page. There is no need to move it. And if it were to be moved, it would be Counting Stars (OneRepublic song). OneRepublic is one word, not two. Contactman7 (talk) 00:04, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Support but Counting Stars (OneRepublic song) -
  WP:DAB specifically says that whether other songs have a page is irrelevant. "Counting Stars", song by Michelle Malone from the 1988 album New Experience, SBS (and Best of Michelle Malone), "Counting Stars", song by Sugarcult from the 2004 album Palm Trees and Power Lines, "Counting Stars", song by Augustana from the 2011 album Augustana (album) these taken together mean that Wikipedia does not only cover one song. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:39, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply
  ]

The styling Category:OneRepublic songs is something probably better left to an RM on the band itself. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:42, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. —BarrelProof (talk) 03:15, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose This is the only article that could reasonably have this name. All we can really say about the other songs is that they exist, so readers looking for further information on them are going to be disappointed anyway. The hatnote I've just added is sufficient. --BDD (talk) 19:45, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

But whether other songs are mentioned in albums or standalone articles is irrelevant per

WP:DAB. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:20, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply

]

• Tempted to support (to a title without a space in OneRepublic) as per nom and In ictu oculi, but after looking, this seems like it has primary topic. Support move to Counting Stars. Red Slash 03:13, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Good call. Support Counting Stars. --BDD (talk) 16:11, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • The song is less than six months old, so it seems rather
    WP:PRIMARY status seems questionable to me. —BarrelProof (talk) 00:41, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • It's actually been out for almost a year. Contactman7 (talk) 01:13, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • The article says the video premiered on May 31, 2013, and the song was first released on June 14, 2013. Both of those are less than six months ago. Am I missing something? —BarrelProof (talk) 01:40, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      • That's when it was released as a single. The song itself surfaced back in December 2012 as a snippet then officially released in March 2013 with the release of the album. Contactman7 (talk) 02:26, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
        • If that's true, the article should be changed to say it. Right now there is no mention of any release earlier than May 31, 2013. (And a "snippet" doesn't sound like something likely to establish much notability.) —BarrelProof (talk) 18:07, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Counting Stars per Red Slash. This is the clear primary topic.--Cúchullain ^t/c 22:20, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • The topic is too
    WP:RECENT – only about six months old – to claim primary status for a simple and oft-used phrase like "Counting Stars". According to the dab article, there are already at least five other "Counting Stars" on Wikipedia, there will certainly be more as time moves on, and the popularity of songs is fleeting. —BarrelProof (talk) 18:39, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply
    ]

Only two of them have articles, and the other, Counting Stars (album) is from July 27, 2010. I don't see recentism being much of a factor there. None of the other items on the dab page have articles or more than passing mentions in any other article. If other notable subjects with this title appear in the future we can deal with it then.--Cúchullain ^t/c 19:03, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:CRYSTAL. --BDD (talk) 19:03, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply

]

If the question is a matter of depth of coverage, it may be worth noting that this article that we're discussing has basically no depth of coverage. As far as I can see, it doesn't say what the song is about, and includes no references to reviews by critics (or fans or commentators of any sort). There's nothing here but some boilerplate and chart statistics and a description of a video that's sourced by a link to the video itself. There really shouldn't be such articles that basically say nothing about their topic other than how popular they are. In regard to depth of coverage, it appears to have no established notability. Note that mere inclusion in lists is ordinarily not sufficient to establish notability for topics. This article doesn't seem to reference any reliable sources for anything other than descriptions of positions in lists. —BarrelProof (talk) 01:54, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Those are arguments for AFD not RM.

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