Talk:Cumberbatch

Requested move 18 November 2016

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The result of the move request was: not moved. kennethaw88 • talk 06:24, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Cumberbatch → Cumberbatch (name) – Cumberbatch should be a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to Benedict Cumberbatch. He qualifies WP:PRIMARYTOPIC in my view. Google Books renders about 26,800 results for "Cumberbatch", whereas "Cumberbatch" -"Benedict" renders around 4,500 less. Probably about as primary as is to Richard Nixon. --Nev&eacute;–selbert 01:55, 18 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Oppose as ridiculous primarytopic overreach. Dicklyon (talk) 05:45, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Care to espouse as to why, ? Perhaps an argument can be made per WP:RECENTISM, although most of the other Cumberbatches aren't really that notable and are rather obscure, as far as I can tell (having looked at their articles). Cumberbatch is a rather peculiar name, and a quick Google search for [//www.google.com/search?q= "Cumberbatch" -"Benedict"] renders only about 455,000 results (compared to just plain [//www.google.com/search?q= "Cumberbatch"] rendering over 23 million). The statistics tell me that most searching for "Cumberbatch" are most probably looking for the actor. (Note I have changed the move request to Cumberbatch (name), since this is probably more appropriate for a page like this.)--Nev&eacute;–selbert 08:01, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I've been considering this move request for around a while now, since a lot of the people I know have watched and talked about his new film, and one day I forgot his first name and typed in "Cumberbatch" and landed here. I'm not entirely sure Cumberbatch should redirect to his article, but I feel that such a discussion is probably worth it. After all, there was a whole debate at Talk:Snowden as to whether Snowden should be a redirect to Edward Snowden.--Nev&eacute;–selbert 08:15, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose verbatim as . No one refers to the actor as "Cumberbatch". Mononyms are very rarely used for anyone except presidents and dead composers and painters. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:03, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Smacks of WP:RECENTISM. bd2412  T 20:17, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Not generally referred to just by his surname. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:43, 23 November 2016 (UTC)


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