Talk:Blind

Requested move

 * 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. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move. Favonian (talk) 23:20, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Blind → Blind (disambiguation) – Relisted to see if there is stronger evidence that there is primary topic. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:27, 7 January 2012 (UTC) Blindness is clearly the primary topic, so blind should redirect there rather than be a disambiguation page. D O N D E groovily  Talk to me  16:14, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Support makes sense, add a hatnote for the dab page. 76.65.128.132 (talk) 08:07, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose – Why do you assert that blindness is clearly primary? A person looking for blindness would more likely search for the noun; there are several noun meanings of blind that they might be looking for if they come here.  There's no reason to assume or force a primary here.  Dicklyon (talk) 05:23, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Mild oppose. I see the point here, and am tempted to agree, but in this case I think there are too many alternative uses to assert that blindness is primary, at least without further evidence.  Powers T 01:51, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment: Out of 18 links to Blind I fixed, 16 were for Blindness (although I removed one), 1 was for Blind (The Sundays album), 1 was for a song in Naked (Talking Heads album). TimBentley (talk) 20:33, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The present arrangement seems most helpful to readers. There are too many meanings that might be sought. N oetica Tea? 06:11, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. The primary usage should be about the inability to see, which should probably redirect to blindness.  That article would then have a "redirects here" capnote with a link to the dabpage.  Blindness is obviously the primary menaing of blind.  The use of the word for a window covering is surely derived from that.  All the other uses are certainly derivative.  Peterkingiron (talk) 01:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * But there is a reasonable expectation, encouraged by WP:TITLE, that titles will be nouns or noun phrases:
 * "'Use nouns: Nouns and noun phrases are normally preferred over titles using other parts of speech; such a title can be the subject of the first sentence.'"
 * Blind is a noun when it concerns window coverings, etc. But not when it concerns blindness.
 * On top of that, the assertion of "obvious" "primary usage" is unsupported by evidence. It is not genuinely helpful here, I suggest. It very often is not.
 * N oetica Tea? 02:08, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 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. No further edits should be made to this section.

A recenr usage

 * A recent television advertisement here in England used "nose-blind" to mean anosmia to a particular smell caused by long-term exposure to that smell. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:44, 15 June 2018 (UTC)