Talk:Open casket (disambiguation)

Requested move 7 January 2023

 * 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. (non-admin closure) Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 02:19, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Open casket → Open casket (disambiguation) – It seems obvious that the funerary meaning of this term is a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, so this should be a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT. The other listed meanings are rather obscure. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 20:34, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom, and per the fact that meanings other than the funeral sense are capitalized. I would also support moving the disambiguation page to Open Casket and disambiguating that title to Open Casket (film) Open Casket (painting), though I think either solution is fine. BD2412  T 20:28, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * there's a film? wbm1058 (talk) 12:36, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, fixed. BD2412  T 17:26, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom, but to Open Casket (disambiguation). Even in Britain, where we don't tend to use the term or have this sort of funeral, this is the commonly understood meaning. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:14, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. This seems almost an WP:OVERLINK as a commonly-understood term. The more commonly-used term is Open casket funeral which leads in |Open_Casket|Open_casket_funeral pageviews by about ten-to-one – and is evenly matched with the painting Open Casket so there is no clear primary topic based on views. If Open casket funeral is indeed a topic of greater long-term significance then it should be tagged R with possibilities to encourage someone to get on with covering the topic. How and when did the practice start? Who most commonly does this, and where? Is there any controversy over it? etc. etc. Meanwhile Open casket funeral is a section link awkwardly dumping readers into the middle of the funeral article at which is a subsection of §North American funerals (you mean to tell me that "visitation" is practiced nowhere else other than North America?) — Views of funeral dominate "open casket" by a |Open_Casket|Open_casket_funeral|Funeral 10-to-1 margin so awkwardly stuffing a hatnote into a section where the term isn't prominently discussed is something that annoys me. And is "funeral" really primary topic over "open coffin"? wbm1058 (talk) 13:32, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment. I'll grant that the funerary meaning of this term is a "primary topic" but that PT is still ambiguous. Redirect to funeral or coffin, which are broader concepts within both of which the PT is in scope, or the more specific article Viewing (funeral), which I added to the dab as a "see also" item. – wbm1058 (talk) 18:29, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * My impression is that "open casket" is a colloquial phrase that refers to Funeral, which is the target of the "" redirect. That section of that article explicitly describes the term "open casket", placing it in quotes. Even if that material should be somewhat rewritten to improve it, that article is where this topic is discussed. I don't think that phrase is ordinarily used to refer to just any coffin that is open. The coffin article does not contain the term "open casket". Indeed it does not even contain the word "open". So that article fails the WP:DABMENTION test for "open casket". —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 19:33, 14 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Another comment (sorry) ComposterRollingDesign.jpg See Human composting. wbm1058 (talk) 18:45, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't see any mention of "open casket" or any use of the word "open" at all in the Human composting article. So that article also fails the WP:DABMENTION test. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 19:33, 14 January 2023 (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.
 * Neutral on the original proposal, but oppose moving Open Casket per WP:DIFFCAPS. The painting is the only article using that title. (Not to mention there's no RM notice at that article.) Station1 (talk) 06:09, 16 January 2023 (UTC)