Talk:Dufay (disambiguation)

Requested move 23 August 2022

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The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 18:53, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Dufay → Dufay (disambiguation) – I am proposing that Dufay be redirected to the composer Guillaume Du Fay, and that the Dufay page be thus moved to Dufay (disambiguation). It is worth noting that modern scholarship uses 'Guillaume Du Fay' and 'Guillaume Dufay' interchangebly, though 'Du Fay' also redirects to this Dufay page. WP:PRIMARYTOPIC gives too major aspects for deciding such matters: 1) Highly likely usage; and 2) Long term-significance, both of which I contend are true to Guillaume Du Fay.

For the first point: The composer receives immensely more page views (see here:, nearly x4 of all the other results combined) than the other persons on this list. The vast majority of results for googling 'Dufay' or 'Du Fay' give the composer, as do results on Oxford reference, Bing and Yahoo.

Long term significance perhaps goes without saying; the composer Du Fay is a widely regarded as the early Renaissance's greatest composer and has been so for 700+ years. Unlike recent Josquin scholarship, which has somewhat lowered Josquin's status, Guillaume Du Fay's reputation has never been in doubt and it seems it will still be very high in the future. For the record, this page originally redirected to Guillaume Du Fay, but was changed without discussion.  Aza24  (talk)   18:40, 23 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I support this proposal, which seems to me very appropriate for the reasons given above.--Smerus (talk) 19:23, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. – From a quick check on the statistics of all the other Dufays and variants thereof it is clear that Aza's man is indeed by far the most visited, and for that reason I support the proposal. (To those of us of the Music-Started-With-Bach school of thought, Du Fay is a bit off the radar, but he is plainly a substantial figure in Western music and Primary Topic status is appropriate.)  Tim riley  talk   19:44, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Support - I think the composer is the most significant by a large margin. - kosboot (talk) 23:34, 23 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Support per nom, link DAB as hatnote to composer.--Ortizesp (talk) 22:09, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. – seems entirely sensible. DBaK (talk) 17:55, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.