Talk:Action comedy film

Non-RS

Like Action comedy film, most of the sources used here are non-RS. In particular, Sfetcu self-published. EEng 04:07, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Ambiguity

"Action comedy" is ambiguous in whether or not it refers to an action comedy film or an action comedy TV series. Reliable sources that use just "action comedy" have typically established earlier in their coverage if they are referring to film or TV. Having action comedy film and action comedy TV series is a way to disambiguate the topic in two different media. Parentheses should be avoided since their use on Wikipedia tends to mean something like "action comedy (film)" would look like it is a film titled Action Comedy. Thanks, Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 14:31, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

I would agree if there was an established difference, genre-wise, between an action comedy TV series and an action comedy film. But if there's not – meaning the genre is the same for both media types – then the article should simply be about the genre, dropping the media type from the name. Additional comments at Talk:Action comedy TV series. --GoneIn60 (talk) 19:43, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

The problem is that genre coverage is rarely media-agnostic, and we should not speculate on similarities and differences between media. To use a different example, we don't have a romantic comedy TV series article, yet something like this could state in such an article, "The medium allows for a slower slow burn, a deeper exploration of each relationship, and -- just given the amount of time -- a lot more laughs." Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 19:57, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

I also agree we should avoid speculation, and moving to a merged article would accomplish that. You can express the commonalities throughout the article, and list the distinguishing characteristics of each media type (when differences in fact exist) in their own level 2 section. Then a redirect from say Action-comedy film could point to that level 2 section covering the film aspect. The natural course of article evolution is to start with one article covering a broad topic until it becomes apparent that there is a need to split into two or more narrow topics, not the other way around. --GoneIn60 (talk) 21:24, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

• Merged as proposed, pursuant to the WP:RM discussion. BD2412 T 18:42, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

  Liar. Only two people in the RM discussion talked about it, and there was a merge-specific discussion that was a day old. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 18:48, 15 December 2022 (UTC)