Talk:Icewind Dale (series)

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move to the requested title, per the discussion below. Until such time as consensus changes, the hatnote in place should help any readers who might be inconvenienced by this. Dekimasuよ! 20:31, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose - Unless the book series was literally at
  Icewind Dale (book series) - which its not, nor should it be - its makes the "video game" disambiguation unnecessary. We disambiguate per article titles, not just existence of media in general. Sergecross73 msg me 19:39, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply
  ]

Searching for "Icewind Dale series" I am primarily given results which discuss the more famous book series. That's why I suggested repointing the redirect. Redirects are also article titles which we have to work around for purposes of disambiguation. Either the video games or book series could be a viable target for Icewind Dale (series), which is why the video game article needs more complete disambiguation. -- Netoholic @ 19:55, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

For full transparency,

to advance their argument here. That aside, I don't think your average Wikipedia is going to type in something like that into a search bar regardless. Sergecross73 msg me 20:03, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply

]

If I type in the search box "Icewind Dale", the autosuggest puts

WP:R#ASTONISH, that the redirects are targetted toward the most likely destination. -- Netoholic @ 20:28, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply

]

• Oppose Per Sergecross, disambiguations are meant for articles that share the same name, not for partial title matches. Per
  WP:SMALLDETAILS any confusion between books and games can easily be resolved by a hatnote._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 20:33, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Support Sergecross in good faith is incorrect, disambiguation policy/guidelines are not meant for articles that share the same name, but is a product of both title and real world issues. In this case a real world issue is involved. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:20, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose per there not being an article that this conflicts with.
  WP:NATURALDIS. DABs are not about potential ambiguity. —  HELLKNOWZ   ▎TALK 12:25, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Support. Current title is ambiguous and could refer to the book series. --woodensuperman 12:26, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]