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I'd suggest that
WP:PT overrules an essay in this instance. It seems clear when this article is receiving upwards of a thousand visits daily, while the other article barely manages a dozen, this is the intended target for the majority of users typing 'Rachel Berry' into the search box.
Frickative05:57, 9 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Support per Frickative. If nearly 100x times as many people are looking at one article rather than the other, it doesn't make sense to inconvenience them by sending them through the dab page.
Propaniac (
talk)
15:14, 12 April 2010 (UTC)reply
That's this month. Notability can be measured on much longer timescales than this year's page hits. Searching on Google Books gives significantly more results for the suffragist, unsurprisingly.
Knepflerle (
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18:24, 19 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Well, of course; one reason would be that people have had about 150 more years to write books giving a passing mention to the legislator compared to the TV character. (And the vast majority of the Google Book hits for the name seem to be genealogical studies not apparently discussing the legislator, either.) I can think of no reason why that should be a factor in this discussion, much less a deciding factor. Per the guideline
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, our guiding criteria should be which article users are likely to be seeking when they search for "Rachel Berry."
Propaniac (
talk)
19:44, 20 April 2010 (UTC)reply
You do know that if, next month, everyone suddenly forgets about one of the top-rated, most influential, and most ardently-adored shows on television, and/or there is a humongous (10,000+%) uptick in interest in this minor politician, pages can be moved again, right? Even taking into account that yes, the show will eventually go off the air and fewer people will be interested in its characters, it seems quite unreasonable to me to suppose that the level of interest in these two articles will be significantly more equal anytime in the next several years.
Propaniac (
talk)
19:44, 20 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose Somehow I can't bring myself to support a proposal that a fictional character in a television series is the primary topic over a real person. If Glee was set in the fictional town of Leeds, would we also be getting a claim that it was the primary topic over the real city?
Skinsmoke (
talk)
21:26, 19 April 2010 (UTC)reply
56,000 people viewed the
Leeds article last month; 56 people viewed
Rachel Berry (legislator). A better comparison would be a very well-known fictional town with the same name as a very small community, in which case the fictional town could very well be the primary topic, and in fact this is already the case for some Wikipedia articles, e.g.
Dogpatch,
Kings Oak,
Walford,
Fiddler's Green and
Twin Peaks (latter two are slightly different, but they're fictional uses superseding real places as primary topics).
Propaniac (
talk)
19:44, 20 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose. I note that
WP:PT says "If there is extended discussion about which article truly is the primary topic, that may be a sign that there is in fact no primary topic." A disambiguation page is appropriate.
StAnselm (
talk)
21:13, 24 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Do note, however, that
Knepflerle's opposition concedes that this subject is the primary topic at present, even if it may not be in the future, while
Skinsmoke's opposition is based on the invalid assumption that being fictional and being a primary topic are mutually exclusive states.
Frickative21:31, 24 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Yes, on the basis that the subject is fictional. Apologies if I have misconstrued your opposition, but if there's more to it than that then you might wish to clarify?
Frickative15:35, 26 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Sigh. I'm getting kind of tired of seeing the claim, in move discussions, that disagreement between people heeding the guideline and people ignoring it is the same thing as people disagreeing on how to best meet the guideline, which is what the "extended discussion" is referring to. The beginning of the guideline is clear that the relevant criteria is which topic is most likely to be sought by readers, and it does not distinguish on the basis of topics being fictional or frivolous.
Propaniac (
talk)
20:28, 26 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Support per Frickative and 100 times greater or more the Glee character is viewed per day, or at least redirect
Rachel Berry to the Glee character with a diambig note at the top linking to the legislature. CTJF83chat18:15, 26 April 2010 (UTC)reply
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Musical Influences: Bernadette Peters
On the "Rachel Berry (Glee)" page it says "
Patti LuPone - in
Dream On, when Rachel is investigating her past, she suspects
Broadway star Patti LuPone is her mother." in the "Musical Influences" section. It should be noted that in Dream On, after explaining to
Jesse St. James why LuPone is her mother Rachel comments, "Do you want to hear my investigation on why Bernadette Peters is my mother?" I beleive that
Bernadette Peters should be added to Rachel's "Musical Influences" setion, as so: "
Patti LuPone and
Bernadette Peters - in
Dream On, when Rachel is investigating her past, she suspects
Broadway star Patti LuPone or Bernadette Peters is her mother" —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
96.228.121.63 (
talk)
01:59, 28 December 2010 (UTC)reply
For the same episode, I would like to add that Rachel claims she was named after a main character of Friends, which wasn't around until late 1994, while Rachel should have been born in 1993? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
79.216.117.61 (
talk)
20:00, 24 August 2011 (UTC)reply
Requested move 2011
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The result of the move request was: moved per consensus that the Glee character is the primary topic. An appeal to recentism was made in this discussion, which is something to consider, but consensus in this case at least seems to be that the overwhelming likelihood that readers are looking for the Glee character outweighs this concern.
ErikHaugen (
talk |
contribs)
21:22, 9 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. If anything, the legistator's page could be moved over the disambig. I wouldn't want to see a fictional character prioritized over an elected official; and with 76,489 hits in an avg. month at its current location, the
Rachel Berry (Glee) article is doing just fine :) No move needed. Rcej (Robert) - talk04:48, 1 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Observation - Much as I love the thought of hate notes (as opposed to hatnotes) for any glee character, it probably isn't very NPOV. :-)
dramatic (
talk)
08:17, 1 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose. I dislike the idea of making fictional characters a primary topic over real people, whether they get more hits or not. There's something very creepy about it! In any case, Glee is currently flavour of the month, but I doubt if it will be forever. --
Necrothesp (
talk)
10:07, 1 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support per
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and precedent. The subject of an article being fictional in no way precludes it from also being the primary topic. This is why the Torchwood character is at
Jack Harkness, not the
footballer; the Neighbours character is at
Bridget Parker and not the
equestrian; the X-Files character is at
John Doggett and not the
politician or
columnist; the Simpsons character is at
Maggie Simpson and not the
musician. These are examples from our
GA content on fictional characters. For an example of process in action, Twilight character
Edward Cullen was moved over the disambiguation page by
community consensus, although the
features writer,
bishop and
politician are all real people. As to the recentism argument: almost a full year on from the initial discussion, the disparity in views between the two articles has only grown more pronounced. In April 2010, 'Rachel Berry (Glee)' received 78 times the amount of hits 'Rachel Berry (legislator)' did. That's now grown to 159 times. If that changes in the future, there is no reason the articles cannot be moved again, but it remains that for the vast majority of Wikipedia users searching for Rachel Berry, this is the primary target and should be treated as such.
Frickative
Support per Frickative, There is nothing that states that a fictional character can't be the main topic in any WP:Policy so let it be.--KingHigh05:39, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
Support per Frickative. As other editors said, fictional characters can easily be the main characters. In addition, the politician has been dead for over 60 years, and hasn't really done that much notable things.
JDDJS (
talk)
03:30, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
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