Talk:The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (disambiguation)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: not moved -- JHunterJ (talk) 13:56, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

– The short story is not the primary topic - it is probably not as notable as either film. StAnselm (talk) 06:00, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (disambiguation) → The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
 * The Secret Life of Walter Mitty → The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (short story)
 * Comment - I don't know about this, the fact that a WP:RECENT second film has been made in my mind confirms the long term notability of the story. I mean "Walter Mitty" even has dictionary entries, Ben Stiller doesn't. Will it really hurt Xmas filmgoers to pass via the original work on their way to check the new film? In ictu oculi (talk) 10:24, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, there's no doubt that the original film is the greatest and best known of the three. But I would have thought that many people might not even realise the original film was based on a story. I guess a good analogy might be 3:10 to Yuma (Short story, film, remake). StAnselm (talk) 10:44, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know about Australia, StAnselm, but in the United States the short story is very familiar (perhaps mainly from its frequent inclusion in school anthologies/textbooks). I'd venture that most Americans, hearing the title, think of the short story first. Deor (talk) 16:58, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah. Yes, I see that in the article. Perhaps my own biases were coming in to play - the (1947!) film is one of my favourites. I'm happy to withdraw the request. StAnselm (talk) 19:26, 7 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Oppose, since the topics are not truly ambiguous, but are in fact related. The disambiguation page could be converted into a list of adaptations of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but this would be redundant to the existing article, which already describes all of these adaptations. bd2412  T 14:44, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Not particularly convinced the movies are the main target here, and the short story provides a solid summary anyway. SnowFire (talk) 17:52, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The short story is primary. Srnec (talk) 03:49, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:PTOPIC: "A topic is primary for a term, with respect to long-term significance, if it has substantially greater enduring notability and educational value than any other topic associated with that term". Emphasis 'not' added. walk'' victor falktalk 10:10, 9 December 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.