Talk:Road to Nowhere

Category: Songs about death
Eh? 91.107.186.14 (talk) 23:04, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Road to nowhere (disambiguation) moved to Road to nowhere, but Road to Nowhere remains where it is. There's a clear consensus that the song isn't the primary topic of the lowercase version, but no consensus on whether it's the primary topic of the capitalised version. Jenks24 (talk) 10:29, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

– Even though search engine results show that the Talking Heads song is the most popular topic in its results, I do not believe that this should be listed as the primary topic; this is definitely not the first topic I would think of when I think of this phrase. In fact, no topic on Road to nowhere (disambiguation) even comes to mind. This page should be moved to Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads song) so it is properly disambiguated, then Road to Nowhere should become the title of the disambiguation page (well, technically Road to nowhere (lowercase "N"), but with Road to Nowhere being a redirect to Road to nowhere). Steel1943 (talk) 00:45, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Road to Nowhere → Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads song)
 * Road to nowhere (disambiguation) → Road to nowhere
 * Comment Why not move the disambiguation page to Road to nowhere (with a lowercase "n") and leave the Talking Heads song where it is (with a capital "N")? A hatnote can be used to distinguish the two pages. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:06, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Reason I stated that instead is due to the fact that Road to nowhere (disambiguation) currently has Road to Nowhere listed as the main topic. Whoever edited Road to nowhere (disambiguation) in that manner had the suspected intention to make Road to nowhere (disambiguation) the central point for both forms of the title's capitalization. Steel1943  (talk) 03:10, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Additional note Looking through the history of Road to nowhere (disambiguation), it looks like Road to Nowhere (disambiguation) was moved there on March 5, 2013, which somewhat enforces my aformentioned statement. Steel1943  (talk) 03:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Personally, I don't see a real problem here that needs fixing by a page move. The Talking Heads song is probably the proper primary topic with a capital 'N', and no evidence has been provided otherwise. It contains a hatnote, as it should. For other uses, there is a dab page set up for both the capital and lowercase variants. Perhaps it would be proper to deemphasize the prominence of the Talking Heads song on the dab page when considering that the dab page serves for both variants. But that doesn't require a page move. Perhaps it would be proper to edit the Road to nowhere redirect so that it points to the dab page instead of the song. But that doesn't require a page move either. —BarrelProof (talk) 03:58, 13 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Popular music is ephemeral. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:03, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Support sounds good (Articles for deletion/Road to nowhere) -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 23:58, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, many meanings, many capitalizations. LCS check (talk) 19:51, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.