Talk:Racine (disambiguation)

Requested move 1 November 2018

 * 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 section. 

The result of the move request was: moved per request. The precise level of detail in the hatnote may be decided upon separately. Favonian (talk) 16:43, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Racine → Racine (disambiguation) – In the same manner that Apollinaire redirects to Guillaume Apollinaire, Balzac redirects to Honoré de Balzac, Baudelaire redirects to Charles Baudelaire, Corneille redirects to Pierre Corneille, Diderot redirects to Denis Diderot, Proust redirects to Marcel Proust and Sartre redirects to Jean-Paul Sartre, so should Racine redirect to Jean Racine. A giant of French literature, he is the only one listed at Racine (disambiguation) who is known as simply "Racine". The sole competition of any consequence seems to be from a small-to-medium city (population 79,000), Racine, Wisconsin, which would not be referenced as simply "Racine" outside of Wisconsin. Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 16:46, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Support one of the few cases where there really is a primary for a surname In ictu oculi (talk) 17:39, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Support sound the alarms, when IIO and I agree that should justify an automatic speedy close in support. LOL. Kudos to Roman for the compelling case he put together. --В²C ☎ 18:54, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * It's because we're applying the guidelines to help readers to a topic which for once actually belongs in an encyclopaedia rather than e.g. forcing them at a piece of random passing fancruft. In ictu oculi (talk) 23:03, 1 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Support per above. Clearly primary redirect here. Patar knight - chat/contributions 20:29, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose on principle because simply listing other cases of mononym primary redirects does NOT give evidence that THIS one is appropriate. No page view stats nor other objective measure have been brought to this discussion, so we have nothing to base this on other than the gut feelings. -- Netoholic @ 21:00, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose Given the large number of meanings, even Racine is a DAB page and if there is no primary topic in French, I doubt that there will be one in English.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 10:27, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Jean Racine is referenced in Western literature as simply Racine in the same manner as William Shakespeare is referenced as simply Shakespeare. There are 20 entries listed at the Racine disambiguation page (with three additional names at the Jean Racine (disambiguation) page) and none of those, except for the dramatist, would be indicated throughout the English-speaking world or anywhere else as simply "Racine". As for French Wikipedia, the editors there appear to be inconsistent in creating surname-based primary redirects. Some obvious ones, such as Balzac, Baudelaire, Diderot, Proust or Sartre do exist, but Apollinaire and Corneille do not redirect to their obvious targets and neither do Byron, Dickens, Keats, Poe, Strindberg, Wordsworth and various others.   Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 18:43, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
 * The French Wikipedia actuall has it as a DAB because "racine" is French for "root" of which Racine, Wisconsin was named. Per WP:USENGLISH and WP:FORRED we don't generally take into account words in other languages and the fact that it is a DAB on Fr, rather than the root article being there is good evidence that Jean Racine must be prominent there. Given that Jean Racine is a level 4 vital article he dominates in a Google search for Racine. However as we don't have stats for people using just "Racine" for searching for him, I'll Weak support but recommend that we put a direct link to Racine, Wisconsin.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 13:18, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Of course all redirects of this nature have hatnotes, such as — or  Thus, if the nomination succeeds, there would be —, in a manner similar to the current hatnote at —  — but consensus would ultimately decide if a separate hatnote is needed to solely cover Racine, Wisconsin, a city of 79,000 which is not a state capital and has relatively limited status both internationally and nationally.    Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 01:51, 5 November 2018 (UTC)


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