Talk:Magic Carpet

Requested move 13 May 2025

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: pages moved. @ 00:42, 3 March 2005 Gtrmp moved Magic Carpet to Magic carpet (disambiguation); after 20 years, we're back to the "status quo", ha! – wbm1058 (talk) 23:19, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

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• Magic carpet (disambiguation) → Magic Carpet
• The Magic Carpet (film) → The Magic Carpet

– Magic carpet is the sole Wikipedia article main title header with lowercase "c" (Magic carpet (ski lift) is a redirect), with all other entries listed upon the Magic carpet (disambiguation) page using uppercase "C". Also, since The Magic Carpet (film) is the sole dab page entry with "The", it may not need the parenthetical qualifier "(film)", but simply the hatnote: For other uses, see Magic Carpet (disambiguation). — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 03:55, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose Many readers, not being familiar with how we use sentence case, would naturally expect Magic Carpet to link to magic carpet. Many of the items on disambiguation page commonly take the definitive article (for example, the Aladdin character), even if their respective article titles do not use the 'the'. Rafts of Calm (talk) 16:24, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
• Support both per nom. Mdewman6 (talk) 19:55, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
• Support both per nom, which is exactly right. Note the first is just a simple reversal of a longstanding redirect. Station1 (talk) 03:11, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
• Oppose - Both moves would be quite problematic and cause some confusion, as identified by Rats of Calm. Placing a disambiguation page at an "other capitalization" is not common practice. Similarly, disambiguating a movie and the mythical object with "The" is going to cause some serious confusion for those with less knowledge of English or sentence case. Garsh (talk) 00:38, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

  It's not uncommon to have a dab page at a different capitalization from an article when WP:DIFFCAPS applies. DIFFCAPS uses the example of friendly fire and Friendly Fire. And as noted, magic carpet has gone to a different place from Magic Carpet for the past 20 years with no problem. This will just reverse the redirect, reverting an undiscussed move from 2005. Station1 (talk) 01:36, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose. Clearly ambiguous. Magic Carpet should redirect to Magic carpet, the clear primary topic for both the lower case and upper case form. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:58, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

  I agree with this. Rafts of Calm (talk) 14:19, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

• Support the first as valid case of WP:DIFFCAPS; editors capitalizing both words are likely looking for a specific title. No opinion regarding the second. older ≠ wiser 12:07, 23 May 2025 (UTC)
• Support. Given that Magic Carpet has redirected to this DAB for twenty years with no apparent trouble, I don't think the risk of confusion is significant enough to justify diverging from WP:DIFFCAPS. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 15:29, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
• Support Per nom. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:00, 1 June 2025 (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.