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Good articleGorilla (song) has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Good topic starGorilla (song) is part of the Unorthodox Jukebox series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
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DateProcessResult
March 5, 2016Good article nomineeListed
March 2, 2017Good topic candidatePromoted
Current status: Good article

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Favonian (talk) 15:40, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Gorilla (Bruno Mars song) → Gorilla (song) – That page redirects to Unorthodox Jukebox. 68.44.51.49 (talk) 00:00, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How did I miss that, Oppose In ictu oculi (talk) 06:12, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
And I've reverted per WP:BRD. Let the RM play out. --BDD (talk) 17:17, 23 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
All right. I believe that the current title is precise enough, and there is more than one song of the same name. And why must "Gorilla (song)" be associated with the most recent singer in history? --George Ho (talk) 17:20, 23 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Simply because his is the only one with an article! You know, I've opposed moves like this, per PDAB no less, when there are multiple articles involved. I believe in commonsense sub-primary topics like Thriller (album) or Kiss (band). But if the choice is between several songs, there's often no clear primacy. And in this case, certainly the Bruno Mars song is too recent to call primary over one of these other songs if it comes to that.
I'm serious. Make a sourced article on one of those other songs and I'll switch to an oppose. My challenge to you, and to all the other PDAB believers, is to improve the encyclopedia by creating articles. I think we can all agree it's a better use of time than arguing for longer titles because of a few DABMENTIONs. --BDD (talk) 17:33, 23 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
let me see if I understand what you are saying here. If I create an article for Gorilla (James Taylor song) with just one reference you will change your vote, yet you will support the renaming of this article even though nobody will change the incoming links, thereby, effectively, making the move a waste of time and effort. Also, you are prepared for us waste our time trying to explain why these moves are so pointless, inefficient. FWIW I am not arguing for longer titles, I am arguing against unnecessary moves. Gorilla (Bruno Mars song) is what it says it is, it is not misleading - there is no pressing reason to move and your arguments above have confirmed my position. You mention commonsense above, looks like we can't even agree what commonsense is! Cheers. --Richhoncho (talk) 13:34, 24 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Who says nobody will work on incoming links? There's either an army that works on {{incoming links}} dab pages or a very dedicated task force—either way, these are often dealt with very quickly. We could also call this Gorilla (2013 Bruno Mars song) (after all, he could record a new song with the same name in the future). That's also "what it says it is... not misleading." There's no end to the sort of information we could put into titles, but conciseness is important. Indeed, it's one of the five WP:CRITERIA. It's desirable in titles, and I'm not willing to jettison that over hypotheticals. --BDD (talk) 04:54, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
You have already jettisoned "The title is no longer than necessary to identify the article's subject and distinguish it from other subjects (my bold) because there are reasons to confuse the reader already. There is no hypothetical here. --Richhoncho (talk) 08:40, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Lyrical "Controversy"

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This section doesn't really seem relevant. There is only a single person who claims to have a problem with it. There didn't seem to be any response from Bruno or any radio station. It wouldn't really be considered a "controversy" when there is only one person actually talking about it. TBWarrior720 (talk) 22:57, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am not fussed either way, it certainly seems like puffery from Dannielle Miller of "Enlighten Education" (not GIRLS), but it does say something about the lyrics which is always good to add. Cheers. --Richhoncho (talk) 11:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I have addressed this issue as you can see in the article. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 22:03, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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New archive page with the official release of the single. The previous didn't had it. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 20:33, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 22 September 2017

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The result of the move request was: Move. Cúchullain t/c 15:13, 29 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]


Gorilla (Bruno Mars song) → Gorilla (song) – Four years ago, this move request failed. But now, I see that there are no other songs on the dab page with this title. I would like to reopen this discussion. 2601:8C:4001:DCB9:F1DE:D1D5:AB03:D0C1 (talk) 13:08, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

But we don't make standalone articles about notable songs from musicals. This is a craziness we are only applying to pop songs, producing thousands of worthless articles typically giving no information about a song's lyrics or tune and purely giving catalogue type info and charts ($$$$$$$$$$ generated). The Cabaret Gorilla song is in books more notable than the Bruno Mars song. Hence, my lack of enthusiasm. Although removing "Bruno Mars" would help to make the article more difficult to find if that is the objective. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:33, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
There are already three stand-alone articles about Cabaret songs. Is there an obscure Wikipedia rule or guideline which say these should not exist (amongst the dozens or hundreds of pages where editors declare new guidelines)? Songs from musicals are songs, and should all stay. That said, if someone writes a page on Cabaret's "Gorilla" song then, if this RM passes, it can be revisited, but I share In ictu oculi's concerns. Randy Kryn (talk) 07:04, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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