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Emilian

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Why even mention Emilian pronunciation for a Tuscan town? --Nemo 20:10, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 4 September 2021

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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. No primary topic. Moved the town to Massa, Tuscany. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 16:37, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]


– I'm unable to find evidence that this Italian town is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for this article title. In particular, the Massa language, which is apparently spoken by 200,000 people in Chad and Cameroon, seems to have an arguably stronger claim to that title; given the Italian town has a population of only c.70,000, having it at the base title seems Eurocentric, which is a problem in a WP:GLOBAL encyclopaedia. Searching for the term "Massa" generally brings up articles about individuals with that surname, including the now-retired racing driver Felipe Massa. I am unsure what the best disambiguation for the Italian town would be, but I do not believe that there is a primary topic for this article title. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 08:09, 4 September 2021 (UTC) — Relisting.  ASUKITE 01:00, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have strong doubts about the viability of page views as a metric for measuring the number of people who want to visit the page about the town in this case, as the retired racing driver's page views appear to outnumber the page views for the town by an order of magnitude. I suspect the page views for the town are being inflated by people typing "Massa" into the search bar looking for the page on the racing driver and then being taken to the page on the town. Of course, I do not believe that the racing driver would qualify for a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT over the town or the language, as a town with a population of 70,000 or a language with 200,000 speakers seem fairly intuitively more significant than a single sportsperson. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 07:32, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, and move the town to Massa, Tuscany. The criteria for Primary Topic are that the subject is more significant and/or likely to be the topic required than all other meanings, taken together. There is no case for this here. There are nine other Italian towns alone listed at the DAB, with a combined population of more than 50,000, still below that of this town but getting towards it, and also towns and districts in at least three other countries, plus many other topics. If the name of the article on this town is to be disambiguated, it should be done according to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)#Italy. Andrewa (talk) 16:34, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: WikiProject Italy has been notified of this discussion. ASUKITE 01:00, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: WikiProject Cities has been notified of this discussion. ASUKITE 01:00, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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.