Talk:Private Screenings

Requested move 31 October 2018

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. This has been open for the better part of a month and no consensus has emerged either way. (closed by non-admin page mover) Calidum 19:49, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

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Private Screenings → Private Screenings (TV series) – I was expecting to see an article that talks about the concept of private screenings of TV series/films and not an article about a specific TV series. Private Screenings should redirect to Public and private screening (as does Private screening, which edit history shows was the original article until 2014 when moved to its current title). Gonnym (talk) 23:24, 31 October 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Steel1943 (talk) 04:41, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:OVERPRECISION. There is no other article needing the precise title. In the unlikely event someone is looking for the concept, I just added a hatnote. Station1 (talk) 07:47, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
  • Unlikely event? You mean the article with the much more entries would be unlikely to be searched for, over an article that has barely no information, was edited 14 times in total (including bots) and likely is getting false hits? Makes sense. --Gonnym (talk) 08:00, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

• Your chart shows private screening gets only 6 hits per month. It's very unlikely someone would both capitalize and pluralize the title they are searching for. But let's assume three times that number did so (18). That would still be fewer than a quarter of the people landing on this article (74). Compare those numbers with those of the completely unintuitive Public and private screening (651) and it's clear few people are getting lost. Station1 (talk) 08:44, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

• With this article only having 2 incoming links from the mainspace; and that searching in Google "private screenings" (all lowercase) shows this as the first result, and Public and private screening second; and that all the other results are using both plural and capitaliztion: 3 Reasons To Book Private Screenings, Cinemark Private Screenings - Cinemark Theatres, Private Screenings | Regal Corporate Box Office, Private Screenings Archive | Palace Cinemas, Private Screenings & Venue Hire | IMAX Melbourne (most also use the same style in the text and not only in the title); and the state of the article and the lack of even editorial interest - I'm almost sure that most of those incoming links are people landing on an article they didn't mean to land on. --Gonnym (talk) 13:20, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

• Then how would you explain the fact that Private Screenings gets more than 10 times the hits of private screening? It seems to me that no more than 10% of the readers landing here are on an article they didn't mean to land on. Station1 (talk) 03:37, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

• I just did, it's the first result from google. Even when writing "private screening", private screening does not appear (as it's a redirect), and the results are Public and private screening first and Private Screenings second. Again, I'm pretty sure that most of the hits are from people not wanting this TV show. --Gonnym (talk) 07:24, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

• When I google "private screening" I don't get Private Screenings at all (but different people get different results). When I google "private screenings" and get this article as a result, directly under the title it says "Private Screenings is a television documentary and reality series airing on Turner Classic Movies since 1995, and one of three original programs currently aired .../ No. of episodes: 27 / Starring: Robert Osborne". It's doubtful significant numbers of people who don't want this article are clicking on that link anyway. Station1 (talk) 19:35, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

• I'm going to support, as I think WP:ASTONISH applies here, but I'm a little surprised that page views weren't more definitive in this case. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 12:37, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
  • Hold up... Support move to Private Screenings (TV program), oppose move to Private Screenings (TV series). As per WP:NCTV, this is a "TV program", not a "TV series" (with continuing story elements). --IJBall (contribs • talk)
    • Sure, I have no issue with this. --Gonnym (talk) 18:16, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
• Support but uploading http://i.cdn.turner.com/v5cache/TCM/Images/Dynamic/i313/privatescreenings_apt_678x230_122620130857.jpg would really be helpful. In ictu oculi (talk) 13:52, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
• Support redirecting the common name to the general article and giving a specific name to the television series. 提尔巴 (talk) 17:13, 3 November 2018 (UTC).
• Oppose per Station1. -- Tavix ^(talk) 18:02, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose per Station1 plus WP:NOTADICT. Come on folks, we have no other article to place at this title. Trying to apply ASTONISH here is misapplying it. --В²C ☎ 21:27, 13 November 2018 (UTC) --В²C ☎ 21:27, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

  NOTDIC has little relevance here, since we're only thinking about if it should redirect (to the same as the lower case), not host an article. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:41, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

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