Talk:Longest Day (novel)

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Shibbolethink in topic Requested move 8 August 2022

Requested move 8 August 2022

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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 Longest Day to Longest Day (novel), Longest Day as now redirecting to The Longest Day. per discussion consensus via compromise. No need to move the current DAB page, when it appears most entries have "the". So instead, "Longest Day" serves best as a redirect to the current DAB, per discussion consensus. There was no consensus present to rename the current (book) so I have left it alone. Questions? Concerns? Check out my talk page. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Shibbolethink ( ) 23:55, 17 August 2022 (UTC)Reply


– There are 12 entries listed upon The Longest Day disambiguation page, with this entry — a six-sentence stub delineating the Doctor Who novel Longest Day — not using "The". There is also another book — the D-day history The Longest Day (book). Although one book title uses "The" and the other does not, a novel is also a book, thus it might seem intuitive to indicate that one book is a "(novel)" and the other is a "(history book)". Finally, if there is support for the form Longest Day (novel), "Longest Day" becomes available, so that the disambiguation page itself can be moved from "The Longest Day" to "Longest Day". — Roman Spinner (talkcontribs) 01:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

I would support any (reasonable) alternative qualifier — The Longest Day (book)The Longest Day (war chronicle), The Longest Day (book)The Longest Day (historical account), The Longest Day (book)The Longest Day (D-Day chronicle), The Longest Day (book)The Longest Day (Normandy landings history), etc. —Roman Spinner (talkcontribs) 19:56, 9 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
All are a bit weird and unnecessary. "1959 book" is the best proposal, but I still think it's unnecessary. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:22, 10 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
If consensus develops that the books Longest Day (novel) and The Longest Day (book) are sufficiently disambiguated from each other by the fact that one uses "The" in the title, while the other does not use "The" in the title, then there is no need for the middle nomination The Longest Day (book)The Longest Day (history book). However, if consensus does feel that "The" represents insufficient differentiation between the two books, then the use of "(1959 book)" for the D-Day chronicle might suggest the analogous use of "(1998 book)", instead of "(novel)" for the Doctor Who novel. —Roman Spinner (talkcontribs) 10:33, 11 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
No, not really. It is a novel and that's how we disambiguate novels! We don't have to use identical disambiguators. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:12, 11 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Support 1st point - no primary Longest Day among all entries.
Oppose 2nd - no other types of books to disambiguate with, per In Title at present. And novel disambiguates well anyway.
The Longest Day and Longest Dday should serve as redirects to one another for the existing disambig page. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 21:41, 11 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
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