Talk:Capital Cities (duo)

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Discussions:

Not moved, 2 March 2014, from Capital Cities (band) to Capital Cities, see discussion.
Moved, 25 November 2024, from Capital Cities (band) to Capital Cities (duo), see discussion.

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Why is their history marked as disputed? There is no discussion in the Talk page. That sounds like the dispute is resolved by default then.24.126.220.193 (talk) 02:05, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: not moved. However I'll boldly do the DAB merge and fix the redirect, we seem to have consensus on that and it requires no admin powers. Andrewa (talk) 01:37, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Capital Cities (band) → Capital Cities – Currently, Capital Cities redirects to Capital Cities Communications, but a cursory examination shows that the band article is the primary topic. Capital Cities (band) has recevied ~146,000 views in the last three months, which the Communications article has just over 4000 views. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 15:44, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. I'd expect Capital Cities to point to an article like Capital city (Capital cities already redirects there) or List of capitals, not to the present target or the proposed topic. At best it should point to a disambiguation page. 172.9.22.150 (talk) 19:21, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio and other sources have the media company Capital Cities as the major print topic, and has more long term WP:PRIMARYTOPIC significance. No objection to dab page with all 3 items listed. In ictu oculi (talk) 19:37, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. I would rather convert this to a dab page. "Capital Cities" seems like a legitimate search term for a list of capitals. Traffic stats to the band article seem like recentism due to recent news spikes about the band. Zzyzx11 (talk) 19:58, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

'Oppose per IIO, and disambiguate per Zzyzx11. The disambiguation page should cover all variations of "capital city"/"capital cities"/"capitol cities"/"capitol city". (We currently have two pages, Capitol City and Capital City, I think they should be merged and cover this spelling as well) -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 21:37, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

All good points, but I thought the capital "Cities" was enough to disambiguate away from the standard lowercase pages. If not, I'm fine with whatever consensus dictates. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 00:00, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. A dab page would work as others have suggested. I like the idea of merging the various iterations (Capitol City, Capital City, et al.) since there aren't that many entries an there is a good deal of overlap. — AjaxSmack 06:58, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support AjaxSmack's suggested merger of Capitol City dab into Capital City dab, and redirect Capital Cities to dab. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:27, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The only real overlap is Capital city for "Capital City" and "Capital Cities". The Simpsons city was both "Capital" and "Capitol", but that was because of a name change; other names that sound similar (petrol/petrel) are separate as expected. Peter James (talk) 22:29, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support dab page. Red Slash 16:47, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the proposed move; support the proposed dab merger. All variations of Capit[a/o]l Cit[y/ies] are ambiguous to one another. bd2412 T 20:07, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Orphaned references in Capital Cities (band)

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Reference named "RIAA":

From List of music recording certifications: "RIAA – Recording Industry Association of America". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
From Music download: "For Students Doing Reports". RIAA. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
From Outkast: Gold & Platinum - Searchable Database: Idlewild. Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved on 2010-05-09.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 02:27, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Birthday

On facebook, I heard that Ryan Merchant's birthday is October 14th. Is that not reliable? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.224.26.190 (talk) 17:40, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 25 November 2024

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 15:18, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Capital Cities (band) → Capital Cities (duo) – They're a duo, so shouldn't the article name say so? Yes, I know WP:DUO says otherwise, but by now there is way more precedent for using (duo) where applicable and I think it's silly to call a duo a "band". I also think WP:DUO should be rewritten accordingly. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:03, 25 November 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Bobby Cohn (talk) 21:37, 2 December 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 02:38, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment — I mean, consensus has been reached for this topic quite a number of times, and several articles refer to duos as "bands" in the prose (e.g. The Living Tombstone or She Past Away). Could you provide evidence to support your claim that "there is way more precedent" for using "(duo)" over "(band)" in article titles? Nub098765 (talk) 04:05, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Nub098765: Tag Team (duo) was recently moved from "Tag Team (group)", with most supporters citing WP:DUO as the reason for the rename. The (duo) disambiguator is used in multiple articles as it is, such as Trout Fishing in America (duo) (which is GA-class), Love and Theft (duo), etc. A duo is objectively not a "band" per the definitions of those words, and any uses of "band" to refer to a duo are objectively incorrect. I think most of the articles that have yet to be moved just haven't caught up with WP:DUO, which seems to have been created relatively recently. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:28, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Who says duos are exclusive to bands? The definition of "band", according to Wiktionary, Merriam Webster, Dictionary.com, and probably many other dictionaries, is, and I'm paraphrasing here, "a group of people who gather to play instruments." If these duos gather to play instruments, then they are a band. Nub098765 (talk) 21:53, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This then leads into the group/duo semantics that almost split the Tag Team discussion apart, yet it still came out with people agreeing on "duo". They are synonymous, but "duo" is more correct when the act has only two members. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:25, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting comment: Relisting for more participation. Best, Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 02:38, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Support per nom. I don't think two people constitute a "group", and I don't think two musicians constitute a "band". Of the seven non-chart references I checked, six used "duo" (even the Brazilian Portuguese one!) and one used "band", so that's the COMMONNAME angle as well. Toadspike [Talk] 08:43, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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