Talk:Year of the Cat (album)

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Progressive pop
I'll even start the process for you. I disagree with changing genre to Progressive pop. Not to mention you are changing all kinds of articles citing one publication. Why is this book the authority on music genres ? Mlpearc ( open channel ) 18:49, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Why? Also, genre changes don't require consensus.--Ilovetopaint (talk) 18:50, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I guess that these standard warnings are all incorrect.  Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 18:55, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * What am I looking at here? This is for people who aren't following WP:VERIFY. i provided a reliable source. The burden is on you to prove why my source isn't valid.--Ilovetopaint (talk) 19:03, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry, you're the one making a change, burden is on you to gain consensus. I !vote no.   Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 19:08, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Nevermind — I meant to add the genre on Year of the Cat (song). Not this page. There is no source for whether the whole album is prog pop.--Ilovetopaint (talk) 19:19, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 26 July 2016
Please change this:


 * Recorded   = January 1976 Abbey Road Studios, London

to this:


 * Recorded   = January 1976
 * Studio     = Abbey Road Studios, London

This is for one to remove the inappropriate use of small text in the infobox (which already uses smaller-than-normal text), and to change the deprecated use of recording location in Recorded and put it in Studio instead, per the documentation of Infobox album.

nyuszika7h (talk) 19:31, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅, Thanks. Nakon  00:36, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

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Requested move 11 January 2023

 * 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 discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. Per consensus, and create dab. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 07:01, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Year of the Cat → Year of the Cat (album) – Not the primary topic by long-term significance or usage. Clearly Cat (zodiac) has greater long-term significance, and most "Year of the X" titles redirect to their zodiac signs. Currently the zodiac article is obviously well surpassing the album in pageviews due to recentism, but even in an off-year like |Year_of_the_Cat_(song)|Cat_(zodiac) 2021, all three topics have virtually the same number of pageviews. Disambiguation is probably the best solution, though a primary redirect to the zodiac sign would also be preferable to the current situation. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:39, 11 January 2023 (UTC)


 *  Oppose : Cat (zodiac) has a completely different title. Why dab this topic on that basis? YorkshireExpat (talk) 22:44, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
 * East Asian zodiac years are very often called "Year of the Rat", "Year of the Ox", etc.; in other words, "Year of the Cat" is a valid synonym of Cat (zodiac). For example, "New York" can mean either the city or the state. Under your argument, because New York City "has a completely different title", no dab is necessary and the state can just snatch up the title of New York. But that's not how it works; the state is at New York (state). -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠</b> 03:42, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. In that case a dab page is best. YorkshireExpat (talk) 20:29, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * Support per nom.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 18:24, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support pointing Year of the cat to a dab page. YorkshireExpat (talk) 20:29, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support, though it was one of my favorite albums back in the day. And yes let's make it a dab page, even though it's only 2 items. Dicklyon (talk) 09:55, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * The song has a page, so that's another that can go on there. YorkshireExpat (talk) 12:23, 15 January 2023 (UTC)