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Requested move 4 November 2023

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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. (closed by non-admin page mover) - ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’๐’–๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐‘ญ๐’๐’‚๐’Ž๐’† (๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’Œ)๐Ÿ”ฅ 14:14, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]


โ€“ There doesn't seem to be much controversy in the article history here, but as I happened to come here from reading another RM, and it's such a generally well-known English term, I'm erring on the side of caution and initiating this process here.

It seems to me that "Baldwin" is generally most recognized as a human name by the average English reader, and https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=Baldwin shows that a huge amount of traffic to Baldwin immediately goes to the separate anthroponymy list. Doing this move would swap things around, so that people looking for Baldwin topics unrelated to human names would have to do the extra click on the hatnote instead, while most readers get to the list they're looking for immediately.

It's interesting how there's a lot of filtered traffic, indicating a substantial long tail, but still, nothing in the comparison of mass views of one set of topics and the mass views of the other set of topics makes me think that we should give more priority to e.g. 18 people a month who are looking for the locomotive works compared to hundreds of notable Baldwins who command orders of magnitude larger reader interest. --Joy (talk) 15:00, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Baldwin? Alec? Stephen? others? The most famous one is especially Alec?

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Alec "Smartalec" Baldwin Winnebaggo (talk) 02:14, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]