Talk:Rain in England

Requested move 12 March 2015

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:32, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Rain in England (album) → Rain in England – reverting undiscussed move – Dohn joe (talk) 21:56, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:24, 12 March 2015 (UTC)


 * "Rain in England" without disambiguater sounds more like weather than a pop music song. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:24, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support. The disambiguation is unnecessary because we don't have actual article on rain in England. A hatnote can point readers to an appropriate page from this one. As a note to the closing admin, the page was moved without consensus to the disambiguated title by IIO and should revert back if this discussion results in a "no consensus" close. -- Calidum  22:28, 12 March 2015 (UTC)


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Requested move 13 March 2015

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The result of the move request was: No consensus. Good arguments on both sides: first off, obviously UK rainfall is way more significant, but Rain in wherever has never been a redirect to a similar page anywhere on Wikipedia (though now In ictu oculi has created some of those redirects, which is obviously fine). If you found a consensus here, congratulations, because after six weeks of this move request being open, I sure didn't.   Red Slash 02:51, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Rain in England → Rain in England (album) – rain in England without capital 'R' should redirect to UK rainfall records or Climate of England. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:12, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Strong revert I don't understand the 12 March 2015 move request. It wasn't even open the prerequisite 7 days. Repoint to meteorology/climatology per nom. This current use fails WP:ASTONISH -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:45, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The 12 March 2015 RM was made in error. In ictu had moved the page without discussion. I made a request under the "Requests to revert undiscussed moves" section of WP:RM. The admin, however, instead of putting my request through, transformed it into a contested RM above. I asked them to revert their actions, and they did, thus the one-hour RM. This is the discussion that should have taken place. Dohn joe (talk) 13:58, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose - This article contains a hatnote linking a reader to UK rainfall records. However, "UK rainfall records" currently violates WP:IINFO. Wikipedia is not an almanac or a book of statistics. Also, there are no other articles of exact same name, regardless of relations. --George Ho (talk) 06:40, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Strong support If there was anything that England was stereotypically known for it would be rain --- AND THIS WILL NOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM US  BY SOME CALIFORNIAN RAPPER.  We will keep our rain thank you very much and In ictu oculi is spot on to point this out.  The topic is rain in England.  Its our rain.  GregKaye 08:35, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose. The disambiguation is unnecessary because we don't have actual article on rain in England. A hatnote can point readers to an appropriate page from this one. -- Calidum  11:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support. "rain in England" is a valid search term for meteorology-related items so removing (album) fails WP:PRECISE. --Richhoncho (talk) 12:32, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose. "Rain in England" is a highly unlikely search term for UK rainfall records. We would be doing our readers a disservice if we sent people looking for "Rain in England" there. If we had a series on Rain in France, Rain in the United States, Rain in South Africa, Rain in Wales, Rain in the United Kingdom, Rain in Thailand, Rain in Uruguay, etc. then there might be an argument. We do have Rain in Spain, but I don't think that Spanish meteorology is quite the focus there.... Dohn joe (talk) 13:58, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * That is The Rain in Spain, evidently a song title since R is capitalized, the "rain" in this title is not capitalized. And why should "rain in England" in books refer to this album? It doesn't, "rain in England" in books refers to rain in England. In ictu oculi (talk) 20:01, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, just like rain in Scotland, rain in Guinea, rain in Queensland, rain in South Sudan, rain in Benin, rain in Guyana, rain in Qatar, etc.... Dohn joe (talk) 20:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Exactly, some users would be WP:SURPRISED to be sent to rap albums in those cases too. Those should all redirect to rainfall section of [Climate of FOO] articles. In ictu oculi (talk) 11:51, 18 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Support. No evidence that the album is primary usage of the term "rain in England". DrKiernan (talk) 10:59, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per DrKiernan. It doesn't matter if there's no actual article at that title, if it's a plausible redirect to UK weather articles, and the album is not shown to be primary topic, then it should be a disambiguation page. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 15:21, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I would say that a redirect that has not been created in 14 years for any country on Earth is not very plausible.... Dohn joe (talk) 21:14, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support move to Rain in England (album), but I think a two-way DAB would be the best thing for Rain in England undisambiguated, rather than a redirect and hatnote. Andrewa (talk) 16:38, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * User:Andrewa: Can you explain why you think it is a good idea to send people looking for the only article on a phrase to a dab page? There have been zero redirects (let alone articles) created at Rain in XX in the history of WP. Whereas we know that people are actually interested in this topic.... Dohn joe (talk) 21:14, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I think it's a good idea simply because I think that most of the people looking for this phrase won't want this article. That seems obvious to me, but I could be wrong, and/or there may be better ways of handling this than my suggestion. Andrewa (talk) 19:16, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I think that sounds ok in theory, but if there were any demand for Rain in XX redirects - i.e., if any appreciable number of readers had been searching for "rain in XX" articles, wouldn't at least one of those been redirects been created by now? (Of course, before In ictu created the ones above during this discussion.) Dohn joe (talk) 20:05, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Dohn joe, a reader searching "rain in Scotland" does not create a redirect, so the non-existence of a redirect is not evidence that no reader has ever searched for "rain in Scotland"
 * Secondly the WP:RECOGNIZABILITY guideline indicates that we make search results recognizable from title - in your RM contributions you seem never to address this issue. For example [windowsill landscapes] produces "rain in England" in the search results. On a PC Google gives you a preview of a chunk of the article, but a mobile in searchbox doesn't do this. This is an (album) most of our album articles have (album), the (album) inconveniences no one. 07:27, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The point is that WP editors create plausible redirects all the time. If there were any demand - from readers or editors - then someone - anyone - would have created a single rain in XX in the fourteen years of Wikipedia. The fact that not a single rain in XX article or redirect had ever been created for any country on the planet is pretty good evidence that readers - and editors - are not using that phrase to look for or link to climate in XX or rainfall totals in XX or similar. Whereas people are looking for Rain in England to find something called "Rain in England". If we send them to a dab page, that's an inconvenience which you never seem to acknowledge in your RMs and unilateral page moves. In any event, I was more interested in User:Andrewa's response. Dohn joe (talk) 14:24, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * That is a weak, erroneous argument - because something does not exist it does not mean it should not exist and it has never meant it is not a good idea. --Richhoncho (talk) 13:44, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Agree. Well, I could quibble as to whether an argument can be both weak and erroneous at the same time, if it's invalid (and I think it is) then that's that, but the point is well made for all reasonable purposes, in my opinion. Andrewa (talk) 16:33, 29 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Oppose. We don't have another article that would be the reasonable place to direct the title "Rain in England" to, or evidence that readers are coming here looking for something else. The hat notes to the meteorology articles already serve any confused readers.--Cúchullain t/ c 20:19, 3 April 2015 (UTC)


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