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It should follow [WP:Tone]. Should be rewritten. RockyMM (talk) 06:47, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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@Zxcvbnm@162 etc.@Station1@Joy, I have reverted the undiscussed move of this page after a request at RM/TR. Please discuss the appropriate page title here and open an RM if necessary. To those who pointed out that the previous move was also undiscussed: As it stood for 9 years, it serves as the last stable version, even if it doesn't necessarily have consensus in favor. Toadspike [Talk] 10:29, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 7 June 2025

It has been proposed in this section that Red Stone be renamed and moved to Red Stone (video game).

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Red Stone → Red Stone (video game) – A number of toponyms with obviously greater long-term significance listed at Red Stone (disambiguation) have the same name formatting, and the term Redstone is likewise likely seen as a synonym by the average reader, so it is a violation of the principle of least astonishment to have this video game in the primary topic position. When I search for the same term in Google Books, I don't seem get any mention of the video game. A general search brings up mostly some random Neal McDonough movie. --Joy (talk) 15:39, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Joy: Something is missing from this move request: if this move is performed, are you intending for Red Stone to be retargeted to Redstone (a disambiguation page)? Steel1943 (talk) 16:23, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. --Joy (talk) 20:58, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:SMALLDIFFS and WP:OVERPRECISION. There is no other article titled precisely Red Stone (two words, capital S), so no need for artificial disambiguation. This article averages only 7 views per day, well below the average for 10 other video games checked at random, and comparable to the 6 per day Red Stone (game) got during the 3 weeks this article existed at that title, indicating there are not significant numbers of readers landing on this article by mistake; a hatnote can take care of the few who might. Station1 (talk) 18:46, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
How are Red Stone River (Wyoming and Montana) and Red Stone Creek (South Dakota) and Red Stone Gorge not overprecision, then?

This argument about how very few viewers look here and therefore we should pretend that there's a primary topic - is incongruent to me.

Here's the monthly page views for just "Red Stone" items. That's all without a hatnote. Here is what happens when you add Red stone and Redstone to it - the number suddenly becomes tiny in comparison, and yet many of its spikes track the other one.

How do we know that all these readers distinguish these concepts based on precise spelling? I don't think we have reason to believe they do. The idea that the number of readers who happened to land at the video game article is representative of anything - is not based on the available data. --Joy (talk) 21:05, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Those would seem to fall under WP:PTM so they would not qualify for a rival primary topic to this game that is only called "Red Stone". ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:33, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. I would add that Red Stone River (Wyoming and Montana) is only a redirect, and Red Stone Creek (South Dakota) is in fact overprecision and could be moved to the more concise Red Stone Creek. - Station1 (talk) 23:10, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If English speakers call these the Red Stone River and the Red Stone Creek, then Red Stone is the specific part of the name, per WP:PTM. And the idea that a novelty foreign entertainment topic qualifies for an English-language primary topic when English-language place names don't - sounds quite extraordinary to me. --Joy (talk) 09:52, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Station1. Only topic that is written "Red Stone" so a hatnote to the disambiguation page is the proper form of disambiguation per WP:SMALLDETAILS. Mdewman6 (talk) 20:29, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If you actually read the linked policy, it says The general approach is that whatever readers might type in the search box, they are guided as swiftly as possible to the topic they might reasonably be expected to be looking for. Why exactly is it reasonable to expect that they're looking for this one topic, and not all the various others with basically the same name? All of the examples listed there where we decide small details suffice to distinguish topics involve reasonably well-known topics. None of these Red Stones are well-known, AFAICT. --Joy (talk) 21:10, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per others. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:32, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]