Talk:The Parasite (1925 film)

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Requested move 10 February 2020

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: no consensus - we have varying support and opposition for each. I suggest opening a new RM for each one individually, to better gauge consensus for each title separately. (closed by non-admin page mover) DannyS712 (talk) 23:25, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

– As a side issue to today's nomination of Parasite (2019 film) → Parasite (film), it should be noted that The Parasite (1925 film) is the sole film titled specifically The Parasite and therefore does not need the year identification. Furthermore, it does does not appear that the 1894 novelette, which has never been republished as a standalone work, has sufficient historical standing to occupy the position of a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the seemingly common form, "The Parasite". Other than the 1925 film, there is a WP:DABMENTION of a work from antiquity (2nd century), The Parasite: Parasitic an Art at List of works by Lucian. The two titles in this nomination had been previously discussed at last month's Talk:The Parasite#Requested move 16 January 2020. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:58, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support "The Parasite (1925 film)" → "The Parasite (film)": Per WP:PRIMARYFILM. No other articles for films called The Parasite appear to exist, so there's no need to disambiguate by including the year of the film's release in the article's title. —Matthew - (talk) 00:12, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose first, support second - Disambiguate all for clarity. -- Netoholic @ 04:57, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. This proposal does not make sense to me. Why would you move the Conan Doyle novelette out of the primary topic slot if you don't want to move something else into it? There was a feature film based on the novelette that was released in 1997, so it's not quite the obscure work that the nominator suggests. Colin Gerhard (talk) 06:20, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

To avoid such confusion, the nomination should have been clearer in specifying that the two minor works titled The Parasite — the 1894 novelette and the 1925 silent film — have insufficient prominence to qualify for WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, thus suggesting that The Parasite, a title which may be also confused with that of the Best Picture winner, Parasite, would best serve users as a redirect to the Parasite (disambiguation) page. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 08:23, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pageviews for The Parasite did shoot up to 278 yesterday from an average of around 35, but this is almost certainly due to the Oscars. Watching this over the next week or so should tell whether there will be any long term confusion. I doubt there will be. Station1 (talk) 08:55, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Update: That was indeed a short-term spike. Pageviews dropped to 112 the next day and are back below 30 the past few days. Station1 (talk) 09:25, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support first, Oppose second per WP:OVERPRECISION and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, respectively. There is no other film titled "The Parasite", so the year is unnecessary overprecision. But pageviews show that the novelette is the clear primary topic over the film in a WP:TWODABS situation. Station1 (talk) 08:14, 11 February 2020 (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.