Talk:Chiller (TV network)

Merger complete

  Y Merger complete. Information from Chiller Films has been merged into this article. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:31, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Verb tense in lead

Why is there a note to keep the lead sentence as "Chiller is" when it no longer exists? Trivialist (talk) 02:30, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 25 April 2020

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No consensus to move. BD2412 T 04:54, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Chiller (TV channel) → Chiller Network – Back to original title: (1) WP:NATURALDIS preferred, (2) "Network" is more inclusive after Chiller Films 2013 launch, which has since been merged here. 2pou (talk) 16:15, 24 April 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. BD2412 T 00:25, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request. Gonnym (talk) 01:41, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose adding a made-up name is not a natural disambiguation. The article doesn't even use this name once. --Gonnym (talk) 01:41, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
  • This is clearly not the first choice WP:COMMONNAME, but that is not an option. It is not made up, though, and it seemed to fit as a NATURALDIS alternative since it was spotted being used by RS such as THR, Deadline Hollywood, and The Austin Chronicle, among others, when using the provided Google News search in the refimprove template.

    As to it’s use in the article, only the lead would have to be updated (inappropriate to be done pre-move), and state the COMMONNAME, leaving the rest of the article untouched. I’m not dead set on this (pun intended), though, but (TV channel) does still seem like a bad parenthetical disambiguation after the Chiller Films merger took place. It’s only about a quarter of the total weight in the article, but it is not insignificant. If article content is crucial in the dab selection, (network) could work. -2pou (talk) 07:12, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

• Move to Chiller (TV network) per WP:NCBC. The vast majority of sources refer to this as the single name "Chiller". The "channel" disambig is largely deprecated, as this is more correctly called a "network" (lowercase). 2pou's evidence links of an uppercase "Network" fails because in 2 of those links, that word is uppercased only in the headline, not the body text. -- Netoholic @ 03:01, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Good catch! Attention to detail. I support this alternative if it is more common than (network alone. -2pou (talk) 08:35, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
• Move to Chiller (TV network), as per Netoholic's excellent analysis.--Bob not snob (talk) 08:03, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose move from Chiller (TV channel) – despite Netoholic's singular opposition to it, there is nothing wrong with "TV channel" as disambiguation, and it is clearly correct in this case, as this is not a "TV network" under any analysis. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 13:52, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

  @IJBall: If you think Chiller is not a standalone network, then can you please tell me to what network it does belong? Chiller certainly self-identified as a network[1][2][3]. Now, for sure it is a network with only one flagship "channel" (but that's not uncommon in the industry). The "channel" is that customer-facing stream which is delivered by content providers like satellite and cable, but this article covers the network behind that "channel". Think of this as the difference between a company (the network) and the product (the channel(s) you see) - because in reality that's what this really is. This is definitely a confusing distinction for many people, which is why WP:NCBC covers it and rightly points out that Wikipedia only rarely covers "channels", preferring to have articles about the operating networks behind them. I think if you want to see something different in place, you should propose it there, but allow this RM to follow the current guideline. -- Netoholic @ 04:36, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

I'm not interested in perpetuating self-labeling inaccuracies as per WP:ONUS. It's simple – there are only two scenarios where "TV network" is correct: 1) when a series of individual network affiliate stations together create a true "TV network" (e.g. CBS, ABC, NBC), or 2) when a single channel has spawned "spinoff" or "sister" channels (e.g. Lifetime spawning LMN and Lifetme Drama(?), Hallmark Channel spawning Hallmark M&M and Hallmark Drama(?), etc.). If it's a single broadcast provider, as Chiller was, it's a "TV channel" not a "TV network". And WP:NCBC likely says what it does on the subject because you've been mostly single-handedly editing it for years to reflect your viewpoint on the subject. But what you think on the subject is not what the rest of us necessarily think. In short, there is nothing wrong with "TV channel" as disambiguation when it's an accurate description, as it is in this case. Chiller was in no way a "TV network", by definition. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 00:27, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

It is a television network because it is a "central operation (that) provides programming to many television stations or pay television providers". I think you've mis-used the "WP:ONUS" link, but regardless of that, I am meeting the burden of proof here by pointing out established definitions of these industry terms, and, specifically, shown them appropriate to the case of Chiller itself - you've not given any evidence to the contrary. -- Netoholic @ 02:36, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

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Requested move 25 May 2020

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The result of the move request was: Moved (closed by non-admin page mover) Calidum 17:35, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

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Chiller (TV channel) → Chiller (TV network) – Per WP:NCBC which follows the definitions of television network ("a central operation (that) provides programming to many television stations or pay television providers") and television channel ("a terrestrial frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed"). As such, the disambiguator "(TV channel)" is largely deprecated on Wikipedia (WP:NCBC#Channels). For confirmation in this specific case, Chiller identified themselves as a network[4][5][6] as did industry sources.[7][8] -- Netoholic @ 07:23, 25 May 2020 (UTC) (edited)

Pings to participants in the above recent RM: @2pou, Gonnym, Bob not snob, and IJBall:. -- Netoholic @ 07:20, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Little surprised last discussion closed... Regardless, (TV channel) is not a sufficient disambiguation for the contents of the article. Even criteria #2 in IJball's previous dissenting comment seems to support "network" because there was a spinoff in the form of Chiller Films. If we want to split hairs and say that is not a spinoff channel, then alternate parentheticals could be Chiller (network) (didn't gain any traction previously) or Chiller (media network), Chiller (media group) (not common, but with precedent: Sakshi (media group). Using "media" in the dab may lead to a news media connotation...), or Chiller (entertainment network) since they referred to themselves as such in the first link Netoholic pointed out.

  Per Oxford Dictionaries at least, the second definition of a network is A group or system of interconnected people or things., and having a film branch alongside the channel supports the plural there. I don't object to maintaining TV in the (TV network) given the lack of other options and the fact the the origins stemmed from TV. -2pou (talk) 20:17, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

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