Talk:Rickrolling

Requested move 24 March 2024

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) –  13:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Rickrolling → Rickroll – Why is the title is the present tense? Coddlebean (talk) 09:47, 24 March 2024 (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 - Its about the act, not an instance, so WP:GERUND with -ing is appropriate and commonly-used. -- Netoholic @ 11:37, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose. This is about the act of rickrolling.  O.N.R.  (talk) 16:55, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose per above. And rickroll would actually be the present tense! -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:01, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:GERUND per above. Like, for example, while we COULD technically use the noun version ("a rickroll"), the current title is using the verb version (as in "to rickroll someone") — and because we're using the verb as the title, it should follow WP:GERUND. Paintspot Infez (talk) 03:29, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose why use the verb form when the WP:GERUND form is being used. A gerund is a noun. "To rickroll" verb form, WP:VERB we don't use verb forms in titles, since you seem to propose moving it to the verb form -- 65.92.247.66 (talk) 08:52, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Youtube URL structure
It might be worth noting that Rickrolling is only possible because Youtube is using a simple, outdated URL structure with just a random ID number as parameter, with no indication for the content of the page in the URL itself, as most websites today use. If the link URL were something like youtube.com/rick-astley-never-gonna-give-you-up.html, nobody could be fooled. 78.55.129.159 (talk) 20:08, 18 April 2024 (UTC) Hans

Rickroll (CHANGE REQUEST IF UNDER 1,600,000,000 VIEWS)
Please change '1.5' to 'under 1.6' 70.22.248.187 (talk) 22:40, 7 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: "Under 1.6" is too vague to be useful; the current text, "over 1.5", is preferable. —C.Fred (talk) 22:46, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

revert
I realized that you reverted my edit, and I reflect that maybe my edit summary was a bit naive :'). I was simply deleting the part mentioning that the video has garnered 1.5B+ views on Youtube because that was already mentioned in the very beginning. I hope you understand and reconsider your revert.

Pingy / Pongy 02:31, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Rick Astley losing popularity
Rickrolls died down around 2021-2024. A lot of games show photos of Rick Astley , leading to a climax of approximately 10 million ditches at 5:00 on the fifteenth of June in 2024. 103.100.225.238 (talk) 08:56, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
 * And what does this mean exactly? SuperWikiBrother (talk) 10:23, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

"We're no strangers to love" listed at Redirects for discussion
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