Talk:Inkling (company)

Original research

I was not able to find a reference for " rising to 833 by November 2013." The existing reference is from several months ago, and supports the original number. I suspect that this is original research. If a reference is available, I suggest we add this, rather than replacing the original. James Cage (talk) 13:50, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted & removed flag. If anyone wants to add the information back, please add a valid reference. James Cage (talk) 15:49, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 27 April 2020

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 Inklings → The Inklings and others as requested. -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:47, 4 May 2020 (UTC) JHunterJ (talk) 11:48, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

– There is WP:NOPRIMARY topic here. Both because the literary group conflicts with the name of the company, and due to Splatoon being a thing, so Splatoon fans searching for the fictional race is a potential search term. I think that the name of the literary group merits a "The" because it falls under the criteria of WP:THE. _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 13:18, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Partially agree I agree that the article title should have "The" added to it, partially because it meets the criteria at WP:THE, and partly to diferenciate it from the Inkling race in Splatoon. However, I don't see the need to move it to "The Inklings (literature)". Simply re-titling the page "The Inklings" will do. As such, I think the company "Inkling" can stay where it is. --Kohoutek1138 (talk) 14:30, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Kohoutek1138: Inkling can refer to the company, the fictional race or a member of the literary group "The Inklings". "The Inklings" can refer to both the fictional race and the literary group. In both cases they require a disambiguation._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 14:42, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Zxcvbnm: Sure, but as others below have pointed out, the Splatoon race doesn't have an article and I think it unlikely that anyone searching for them would type "The Inklings". A hatnote at the top of this article directing to the article about Splatoon would suffice. So, I'm still a partial support, I'm afraid, with this page being moved to The Inklings (a disambiguation in parenthesis is unnecessary). --Kohoutek1138 (talk) 17:16, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. No primary topic for the names. Move disambiguation page to basename. (Not sure "(literature)" is needed though, so other editors can chime in on that.) Paintspot Infez (talk) 15:15, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 15:25, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom, though I disagree that (literature) is necessary for the second one. The Splatoon characters do not have an article, and even then I don't think it would be natural to search "The Inklings" for it. Nohomersryan (talk) 20:05, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support move of DAB, but The Inklings is a redirect targeting Inklings so we can just reverse that redirect. Nobody has proposed that "Inklings" is retargeted anywhere else, and a hatnote at The Inklings to Inkling (Splatoon) will suffice, since no other use can be made plural. In any case, "(literature)" is a bad disambiguating phrase since the Inklings are not literature but a group. 94.21.253.28 (talk) 00:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support See no issue with the proposal. Capitals00 (talk) 08:57, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support 1st and 3rd due to views[[1]] and the pen. Per Paintspot I'm not sure if the 2nd needs disambiguation since "the Inklings" only appears once in the Splatoon (series) article and anyway in lower case but then Inklings is prefixed with the definite article (though probably failing WP:THE) so it might still be safest to disambiguate that to. Crouch, Swale (talk) 07:29, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The literary group seems to be used with both "The" and "the", but still passes WP:THE #1: "a word with a definite article has a different meaning with respect to the same word without the article". But really it is WP:NATURALDIS per WP:PLURALPT and WP:COMMONNAME that we should move the literary group to The Inklings. While the article does have "four Inklings", "an Inkling" is not as common as the collective noun.94.21.253.28 (talk) 06:59, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support 1st and 3rd, Oppose 2nd. No clear primary topic for Inkling, but clear primary topic for Inklings. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:38, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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