Talk:Aloy

Requested move 11 May 2018

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The result of the move request was: disambiguate. The combination of metals Alloy dominates page views; this is a plausible misspelling. wbm1058 (talk) 17:07, 18 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]

• Aloy (Horizon Zero Dawn) → Aloy
• Aloy → Aloy (rapper)

– The rapper's page has gotten an average of 12 daily views for the last 3 years, ever since the character page was created it averaged in the hundreds. Clearly the rapper is not the primary topic, but I would go so far as to say the character is the primary topic. Neither of them have much long term significance, so importance is to be gauged on general public interest and the likelihood of viewers to want one page over the other. I also think that making Aloy a disambiguation is acceptable if this is a WP:NOPRIMARY situation. _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 11:12, 11 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]

• Support 2nd move; neutral on 1st per nom. Not sure if the character is the primary topic either, so I'd support making a disambiguation page at the basename of "Aloy". Paintspot Infez (talk) 16:21, 11 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]
• Support as proposed. The rapper seems to be a minor figure, probably not even meeting the WP:MUSICBIO notability guideline. -- Netoholic @ 18:38, 11 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]
• Support moving this page to Aloy, and perhaps even taking Aloy (rapper) for deletion, as they don't seem notable. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 19:52, 11 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]
• Comment have deprodded the Aloy rapper as it had been prodded and deprodded before, and have moved it to Aloy (rapper) without a redirect so Aloy is free for what you decide Atlantic306 (talk) 17:27, 17 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]
• Oppose. Aloy is a common misspelling of alloy (see https://www.google.com/search?q=aloy+metal and particularly try image search) and should redirect there, rather than to either of these notable but not generally famous topics. Andrewa (talk) 23:13, 17 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]
  • "aloy metal" using quotes gets 14,500 results, while "aloy" horizon (showing the character) gets 235,000, so this does not appear to be as common as you stated. Searching "aloy" metal just nets results for the metal flowers in the game. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 00:56, 18 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]
    • Disagree... those are rather strange searches! Andrewa (talk) 02:03, 18 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]
      • A "distinguish" hatnote can address any confusion... but going so far as to make it a primary redirect, I think not._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 04:53, 18 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]
        • It should go whichever way we decide best supports general reader experience. Certainly a hatnote will get the reader there eventually whichever way we go. But to me, hatnotes on the articles on the rapper and/or on the video game heroine seem out of place somehow. Remembering that English Wikipedia is for all English speakers not just native speakers, and that alloy and aloy are homophones, the redir from common mispelling, with a hatnote there to the two other articles, seems a good choice to me. In an internal Wikipedia search list of course the unambiguous article names will both appear, whether as redirects or article names, and the reader will get the correct article with one more click. External search engines may be more of a problem. Andrewa (talk) 09:05, 18 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]
• Support: The move from Aloy (Horizon Zero Dawn) to Aloy makes sense per the arguments given. Cognissonance (talk) 08:21, 18 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]

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