Talk:Boyhood

Requested move 25 March 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: moved per consensus, and note that things being named for a sense is not part of the primary topic criteria. --  JHunterJ (talk) 11:58, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Boyhood (disambiguation) → Boyhood – I doubt that someone who wants to find an article about boys will type "boyhood". Georgia guy (talk) 19:21, 25 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Support per nom. No clear primary topic for this term; Move disambiguation page to basename. I'd wait a while before considering a possible move to make the film the primary topic, since primary topic swaps are often a bit awkward. Paintspot Infez (talk) 20:23, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Support - easy enough for editors to use  linking method if the need arises. -- Netoholic @ 21:21, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Move Boyhood (film) to Boyhood as the WP:primary topic. The film gets well over |Boyhood|Boyhood_(disambiguation)|Boy|Boyhood_(novel) triple the pageviews of Boy and over 100 times the pageviews of the novel or Boyhood (disambiguation). The dab page can then stay where it is. Station1 (talk) 22:07, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I'd strongly oppose this option. No matter the pageviews, the film is named specifically for the everyday term, and that term is the primary topic. While I think we can be fine not needing the WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT, I would much prefer we do nothing than to assign any one article to boyhood. If Station1's option does catch on, you can count my vote as a full oppose any move. -- Netoholic @ 02:10, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The clear primary topic by historical importance is the period in the life of a human male of being a boy. Everything else with this title is named for that sense. While it could be argued that childhood could also be a target for this term, boyhood is not ambiguous to childhood, but is a particular case of childhood. BD2412  T 04:12, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per Paintspot, no primary topic.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 18:35, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I would also note that this was originally created as a redirect to Childhood, although Boy might be a better target given the views of the film its unlikely to be primary today.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 18:39, 27 March 2020 (UTC)


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