Talk:Coati Mundi (musician)

What The Hell?
Why do I get redirected to this page wheneve I search for "The Enemies"? What the Hell? - 07:43, 7 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Being fixed right now. C. Foultz 07:59, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Requested move 28 March 2015

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

The result of the move request was: Moved  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 11:05, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Coati Mundi → Coati Mundi (musician) – With the redirect "Coati Mundi" being edited to point to Coatimundi, which is a disambiguation page. The animal is the primary subject, I would say. This Google Ngram shows results for four phrases: "Coati Mundi", "coati mundi", "Coatimundi", and "coatimundi". "Coati Mundi" comes in last and it's the only one that would refer to Andy Hernandez, occasional typos aside. What I'm concerned about here is that typing "coati mundi" in the search box brings one to this page, when that's probably not where most people want to go. Granted, technically there is a difference between "Coati Mundi" and "coati mundi", but our search box can't differentiate them, and anyway whether the names of animals are or are not capitalized is not settled (there was a big contretemps about this here recently) and certainly some people looking for the animal are going to capitalize it anyway. In fact Andy Hernandez looks rather obscure compared to a genus of charismatic megafauna and a case could be made for "Coati Mundi" and "Coatimundi" redirecting directly to "Coati" with only a hatnote there for people looking for Mr Hernandez. Either way is OK but I'm proposing here here that "Coatimundi" remain a disambig page with "Coati Mundi" pointing to it. Herostratus (talk) 15:03, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Here's another Ngram with just "Coati Mundi" and "coati mundi". We can assume that very very few of the lowercased "coati mundi"s refer to Mr Hernandez, while some of the uppercased "Coati Mundi"s refer to the animal -- we know this because we see some from before Mr Hernandez's birth and before he took the name Coati Mundi. Even then "coati mundi" wins the Ngram, except for a brief period around 2000. On top of that, the animal name is biology so it's more scholarly than a popular musician, which counts for something. Herostratus (talk) 15:16, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - seems to be uncommon use to separate coati and mundi for the animal Peterson First Guide to Forests Page 87 "The Coati, sometimes called Coati Mundi, is a sleek tropical member of the raccoon family...." but could still see it causing confusion between an encyclopedic subject (an animal) and a musician with Kid Creole and the Coconuts. In ictu oculi (talk) 06:51, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per IIO's identified source. Mr Hernandez probably realizes that the charismatic megafauna species is likely to have greater long-term importance, and it appears that he named himself after the creature, rather than the other way around. —BarrelProof (talk) 18:26, 29 March 2015 (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 or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.