Talk:Roadwork (novel)

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Weatherby Magnum[edit]

Weatherby Magnum as descripted in this article isn't a rifle, but a kind of cartridge used as rifle ammo, according to Wikipedia and other internet sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.84.193.2 (talk) 03:47, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New England city?[edit]

I'm pretty sure Roadwork is supposed to take place in the Midwest, and specifically Wisconsin. The only evidence that it might take place in New England is that such a large number of King's novels are set in Maine. But in Roadwork we get numerous references to Chicago (Magliore is there when Bart first tries to contact him, for example) and the letter Bart gets from the city is addressed to M----, W----. There are no states that begin with the letter W east of the Mississippi aside from Wisconsin and West Virginia. College football is a motif, so I'm guessing the story takes place in Madison or Milwaukee, but definitely not New England. 128.192.59.150 14:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Concur. I thought I remembered that "M-W" salutation line but I hadn't read the story myself in about 20 years. Good work. Ellsworth 22:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did some general clarification/cleanup to the article. I'm not sure if it's enough to warrant removal of the "needs cleanup" tag, but it's annoying to me that it's there at all on a Stephen King-related article. Any other thoughts on how to improve the article? -Paulbkirk 19:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From The Stephen King Universe book: "Tellingly, King makes a point of never saying precisely what small city or state Barton Dawes calls home (although one could make an educated guess that the story is set in the Midwest, probably lower Wisconsin). His point? That this could happen anywhere, to anyone." But the Blue Ribbon Laundry is connected to Carrie, since Carrie's mother Margaret worked there, so maybe it is another Maine-set story. JayzinSmith (talk) 07:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 16 April 2023[edit]

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: MOVED. Additionally, Roadwork now redirects to Roadworks This seems mostly uncontroversial; the single oppose rationale is disproven by observation of common English usage, re: plural vs singular. Hadal (talk) 16:01, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Roadwork → Roadwork (novel) – Move and make Roadwork a primary redirect to Roadworks. 162 etc. (talk) 23:41, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@162 etc.: just go ahead and do it. Roadworks has a hatnote to Roadwork (disambiguation). In ictu oculi (talk) 08:50, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support though the generic meaning isn't singular often it has 2,878 views compared with only 434[[1]] for the novel and the generic meaning is also likely primary by long-term significance. Most Google, Images and Books results are for the generic meaning though the novel does show up. Either no primary topic or redirect to generic meaning. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:08, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think you misread that graph. It's the novel that had 2,878 views compared to 434 for the generic meaning, not the other way around. Station1 (talk) 20:54, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Almost uncontroversial, really. Steel1943 (talk) 20:58, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. "Roadwork" is not the same as "roadworks". If it were, roadworks would be at the title "Roadwork" per WP:SINGULAR. And even if that was the case, the novel would still be the clear primary topic. (Even Roadwork (album) gets more views than roadworks.) Station1 (talk) 20:54, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support road construction is referred to without the "s", and is the primary topic as can clearly be seen by what comes up in a basic Google search -- 64.229.90.172 (talk) 18:37, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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