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Some links to here are "Biblical Epic," "epic film," "epic novel" or "epic" as simply meaning a large-scale story. As I have been setting up links to ( skip this page), I have chosen to simply unlink these uses. Its not clear to me if these should have their on article or not. And I wouldn't be able to do much more than a dictionary type entry for them. So if someone thinks these articles should exist, go ahead! John 17:18, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Update. Apparently this move was effected, so I removed the template.
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When I finish going through the links to this page, I propose to make Epic poetry the primary target of "Epic" (it is, but the redirect comes here), change the name of this article to "Epic (disambiguation)" and have Epic redirect to Epic Poetry. John 23:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Epic → Epic (disambiguation)
It IS a disambiguation page and people are linking to it directly too easily. When the move is done, I will make Epic be a redirect to Epic poetry, which appears to be the most used reference. I would do it myself, but Epic (disambigutation) already exists.
I don't expect this to be controversial. I am following the process here because the target page already exists.c John (Jwy) 02:19, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Bearing in mind that an article for epic ( Epic poetry) already exists, and it describes the essential meaning of the term, I see no reason why epic should not go there directly. If a user wishes to write an article about the popularized meaning of the term, he or she is free to do so, and can call it something like epic work or epic (narrative) or the like.Ideally, Wikipedia articles should not link to disambiguation pages; instead links should go directly to the appropriate article.
I hope I'm not stepping on any toes here, but I'm adding links from this page to "Epic poetry" and "Epic (genre)" because, while we're in the midst of figuring out how to divide up these pages, it just seems weird that those two pages aren't linked from the epic disambiguation page, which is essentially what this page is right now. Apologies if I'm misguided about that. AsuEng ( talk) 21:55, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Someone has been adding this article into the "See also" section with edit summaries: - It's an Easter Egg that's not causing any harm, plus TVTropes is using it for a trope and - he people agree, it stays. Or are you going against your own philosophy?
Neither of which appear to have anything to do with reasons for entry on a dab page (see WP:MOSDAB). I'll hold off reverting once again hoping for further explanation. But as the article doesn't even contain the word epic, it doesn't belong as far as I can tell. --John ( User:Jwy/ talk) 20:38, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
you clearly have never seen the show —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.234.70.26 ( talk) 02:27, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
In recent years, epic has gone from meaning a literary term to a slang meaning as well. Epic is now considered a synonym for "awesome" or "cool". The use of this word has permeated many chat rooms and websites. This word has inspired "epic duck", a fictional character on Roblox, a massive online multiplayer game. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stewy33 ( talk • contribs) 23:27, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
I have noticed that a lot of edits here are either vandalism or removal of vandalism. I believe that this page should be locked, and another "petition" page for suggestions on how to improve this page. Reply if you agree if disagree, and I am open to discussion about this idea. 76.22.16.254 ( talk) 00:30, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Epic poetry which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 12:14, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
To Michael!, the formatting that you applied to the page would only be appropriate if epic poetry were deemed the primary topic for "Epic" and would actually involve a couple of page moves. This idea has been suggested and discussed before. As you can see in the section directly above this one, the most recent proposal was about a year ago and resulted in no move. You are of course free to open up a new discussion, but I would ask that you please at least read that discussion and the parameters at WP:PRIMARYTOPIC before doing so. -- Fyrael ( talk) 06:27, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
For one thing, "primary" is absolutely not the same as "it came first" in the context of DAB pages. I know. That's why I put "primary" in scare quotes—I was trying to indicate that I meant literally primary and not Wikipedia-primary. I work mainly in the area of pre-modern history. My concern is that in most historical contexts it is unnecessary to disambiguate "epic". The word has just one meaning. It means a type of poem. This is true in discussing many cultures. One says " Mongolian epic", not "Mongolian epic poetry". If you search for epic and come to the DAB page, you will feel lost. I had to ctrl-F "poe" to find the article when I came here. Again, my concern is that, unlike most other things, epic poetry is just epic in many contexts. Disambiguating it is not natural in the way that disambiguating a film titled Epic or a game company is. As long as it's above the fold, I'm happy. Srnec ( talk) 18:36, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
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Some links to here are "Biblical Epic," "epic film," "epic novel" or "epic" as simply meaning a large-scale story. As I have been setting up links to ( skip this page), I have chosen to simply unlink these uses. Its not clear to me if these should have their on article or not. And I wouldn't be able to do much more than a dictionary type entry for them. So if someone thinks these articles should exist, go ahead! John 17:18, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Update. Apparently this move was effected, so I removed the template.
-,-~
R'lyehRising~-,-
01:41, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
When I finish going through the links to this page, I propose to make Epic poetry the primary target of "Epic" (it is, but the redirect comes here), change the name of this article to "Epic (disambiguation)" and have Epic redirect to Epic Poetry. John 23:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Epic → Epic (disambiguation)
It IS a disambiguation page and people are linking to it directly too easily. When the move is done, I will make Epic be a redirect to Epic poetry, which appears to be the most used reference. I would do it myself, but Epic (disambigutation) already exists.
I don't expect this to be controversial. I am following the process here because the target page already exists.c John (Jwy) 02:19, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Bearing in mind that an article for epic ( Epic poetry) already exists, and it describes the essential meaning of the term, I see no reason why epic should not go there directly. If a user wishes to write an article about the popularized meaning of the term, he or she is free to do so, and can call it something like epic work or epic (narrative) or the like.Ideally, Wikipedia articles should not link to disambiguation pages; instead links should go directly to the appropriate article.
I hope I'm not stepping on any toes here, but I'm adding links from this page to "Epic poetry" and "Epic (genre)" because, while we're in the midst of figuring out how to divide up these pages, it just seems weird that those two pages aren't linked from the epic disambiguation page, which is essentially what this page is right now. Apologies if I'm misguided about that. AsuEng ( talk) 21:55, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Someone has been adding this article into the "See also" section with edit summaries: - It's an Easter Egg that's not causing any harm, plus TVTropes is using it for a trope and - he people agree, it stays. Or are you going against your own philosophy?
Neither of which appear to have anything to do with reasons for entry on a dab page (see WP:MOSDAB). I'll hold off reverting once again hoping for further explanation. But as the article doesn't even contain the word epic, it doesn't belong as far as I can tell. --John ( User:Jwy/ talk) 20:38, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
you clearly have never seen the show —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.234.70.26 ( talk) 02:27, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
In recent years, epic has gone from meaning a literary term to a slang meaning as well. Epic is now considered a synonym for "awesome" or "cool". The use of this word has permeated many chat rooms and websites. This word has inspired "epic duck", a fictional character on Roblox, a massive online multiplayer game. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stewy33 ( talk • contribs) 23:27, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
I have noticed that a lot of edits here are either vandalism or removal of vandalism. I believe that this page should be locked, and another "petition" page for suggestions on how to improve this page. Reply if you agree if disagree, and I am open to discussion about this idea. 76.22.16.254 ( talk) 00:30, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Epic poetry which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 12:14, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
To Michael!, the formatting that you applied to the page would only be appropriate if epic poetry were deemed the primary topic for "Epic" and would actually involve a couple of page moves. This idea has been suggested and discussed before. As you can see in the section directly above this one, the most recent proposal was about a year ago and resulted in no move. You are of course free to open up a new discussion, but I would ask that you please at least read that discussion and the parameters at WP:PRIMARYTOPIC before doing so. -- Fyrael ( talk) 06:27, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
For one thing, "primary" is absolutely not the same as "it came first" in the context of DAB pages. I know. That's why I put "primary" in scare quotes—I was trying to indicate that I meant literally primary and not Wikipedia-primary. I work mainly in the area of pre-modern history. My concern is that in most historical contexts it is unnecessary to disambiguate "epic". The word has just one meaning. It means a type of poem. This is true in discussing many cultures. One says " Mongolian epic", not "Mongolian epic poetry". If you search for epic and come to the DAB page, you will feel lost. I had to ctrl-F "poe" to find the article when I came here. Again, my concern is that, unlike most other things, epic poetry is just epic in many contexts. Disambiguating it is not natural in the way that disambiguating a film titled Epic or a game company is. As long as it's above the fold, I'm happy. Srnec ( talk) 18:36, 2 July 2019 (UTC)