Talk:Matara, Sri Lanka

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Requested move 23 January 2022

 * 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: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Elli (talk &#124; contribs) 03:18, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

– WP:PRIMARYTOPIC per following,
 * Matara, Sri Lanka → Matara
 * Matara → Matara (disambiguation)
 * Google trends
 * Google quoted search strings
 * "matara, sri lanka": 676,000
 * "matara, eritria": 4,320
 * Pageviews, https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest20&pages=Matara,_Sri_Lanka Chanaka L ( talk ) 08:09, 23 January 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:08, 3 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose There's multiple other places at Matara, so having that as the dismabig page would make spotting incorrect incoming links easier.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 10:14, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Even within Sri Lanka, it's arguable whether the city (population about 74,000) rather than the district (population about 800,000) is the better candidate for primary topic. Add in the notable places in Eritrea, Peru, and on Mars, and the case for there being any primary topic of Matara is insufficient IMO. Andrewa (talk) 04:50, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * With all due respect, Google trends thoroughly disagree with your argument. I have demonstrated above that Eritrean city receives less traffic both on and off Wikipedia. Peruvian city is a red link, therefore the notability of it cannot be ascertained. Cheers-- Chanaka L ( talk ) 06:09, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * This misses the point in several ways. Primary topic requires that all other meanings be considered together, including the other one in Sri Lanka. And there are several criteria, not just measures of traffic. There is no reason that we cannot assess notability of the Peruvian city, or other places by that name of which there are several listed in Spanish Wikipedia. But your point that the Peruvian city is a redlink is valid. The policy is that all we really need to consider here are the other articles currently in Wikipedia. My referring to these other places is just to point out that we can save ourselves some work later on. To ignore them for now does not improve Wikipedia. See Matará. I do not read Spanish, do you know the populations of any of the places in Peru? Andrewa (talk) 07:49, 10 February 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.
 * Oppose, I'd have to agree that the best arrangements is leave the Matara as a disambiguation page, rather than make Matara, Sri Lanka the primary page. Dan arndt (talk) 07:12, 10 February 2022 (UTC)