Talk:Her Majesty's Theatre (disambiguation)

Requested move 13 May 2023

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: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} (please mention me on reply) 02:55, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

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Her Majesty's Theatre (disambiguation) → Her Majesty's Theatre – Since the London one has been renamed to His Majesty's, there is no primary topic for this one, so can drop the suffix (Else change the redirect from the term to this page). Laterthanyouthink (talk) 23:19, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Comment. I'm inclined to oppose this since there has been no evidence provided that proves that the theatre in London is not the WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT association with the current target, considering that His Majesty's Theatre, London was named Her Majesty's Theatre on Wikipedia for many years. Steel1943 (talk) 02:59, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes, there is that... I see a lot of incoming links! I have updated a few that need to be updated (for reasons of currency), and will return to check some more. But this is a valid point. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 04:03, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

I've started changing a bunch that were piping from Her to His Maj (changed to [[His Majesty's Theatre, London|His Majesty's Theatre]]), and found a few incorrect ones that should have linked to a different theatre, but had the thought that it's probably possible to automate some of the simpler changes. I am no good at scripts but perhaps someone else could write one to change a swag of what is left? Laterthanyouthink (talk) 06:52, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Oh and I forgot to say, quite a few of them were piped links to the former names, Queen's Theatre and King's Theatre. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 06:57, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose. Still a primary redirect. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:42, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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.

Link to disambiguation

@Leschnei and @Doug butler: Just reaching out because you both have reverted my edits changing the link to His Majesty's Theatre. See 1, 2. The current title of the page is "His Majesty's Theatre", without "(disambiguation)". Perhaps I misread the guidelines on such cases, so I'd appreciate a bit more detail or explanation to help me understand better. Edge3 (talk) 15:47, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

@Doug butler and Edge3: Most links to disambiguation pages are mistakes and end up on a list of links that need to be fixed. To distinguish these mistaken links from intentional links to DAB pages (which usually don't need to be fixed), the intentional links are distinguished by going through the title that includes '(disambiguation)' - even if it is a redirect. You can read a bit more about it at WP:INTDAB. Leschnei (talk) 18:07, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

@Leschnei Thank you for the explanation! That makes perfect sense to me. Edge3 (talk) 18:25, 13 September 2023 (UTC)