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: no consensus to make changes at this time, per the discussion below. It seems likely that the Idles redirect should be discussed at WP:RFD; were that to result in retargeting the redirect to the band and not somewhere else, it might be worth revisiting this issue. Dekimasu よ! 09:05, 4 January 2020 (UTC) reply

Idles (band) → Idles – Current page at "Idles" redirects to Idlès, which can be distinguished by the accent mark. Additionally, the band is a much more likely search target on English Wikipedia than the Algerian city. Conifer ( talk) 05:03, 26 December 2019 (UTC) reply

• Support per nom. Even ignoring WP:SMALLDIFFS, pageviews indicate the band is the overwhelming WP:primary topic. - Station1 ( talk) 08:34, 26 December 2019 (UTC) reply
• Support per nom. As the above user notes, this is the WP:primary topic in English. The page Idlès is unlikely to receive anywhere near the same level of interest as it is a small and relatively underreported village. The topic Idles (plural of Idle) in software engineering is not the main spelling of the term, let alone a major page either. Idle itself redirects to Idleness rather than the software term, showing its insignificance. -- Llemiles ( talk) 17:56, 26 December 2019 (UTC) reply
• Oppose In books see "idles are" test; idles is the plural of idle, which is a noun and term in software engineering. "idles is" test again produces the software term idles as a plural not an obscure pop band. In ictu oculi ( talk) 20:40, 26 December 2019 (UTC) reply

Redirect Idles to Idle (disambiguation) In ictu oculi ( talk) 20:43, 26 December 2019 (UTC) reply

The book search is not helpful when dealing with new phenomenons like bands, because they get high public interest but have little published about them in print.

Blanket redirecting the Idles page to the Idle (disambiguation) page would send users seeking the band article (who are in the majority) to an incorrect disambiguation page?

The software term Idle has been adequately covered by a hatnote pointing users at Idlès to the Idle disambiguation. I don't see any reason not to add that same hatnote to a prospective Idles page about the band.-- Llemiles ( talk) 02:12, 27 December 2019 (UTC) reply

• Oppose Per in ictu oculi, redirect to idle (disambiguation). Fails the "idles is" test. _{ZXCVBNM ( TALK)} 07:04, 28 December 2019 (UTC) reply
• Support. I don't understand much about this test, but I don't think it has much on criteria. This is the primary topic. -- Quiz shows 09:46, 28 December 2019 (UTC) reply
• Oppose per IIO. Clear lack of primary topic, and Idles should redirect to Idle (disambiguation).  —  Amakuru ( talk) 16:24, 2 January 2020 (UTC) reply

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

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 -- JHunterJ ( talk) 13:32, 5 September 2020 (UTC) reply

• Idles (band) → Idles
• Idles → Idles (disambiguation)

– I'm going to bring this up again. Idles (band) is getting 1,500 views per day currently (434,000 in the last year) and there's nothing on the disambiguation page that is remotely close (a town - with the accent - in Algeria that gets practically zero views, redirects to misspellings of Idol and Ideles, a redirect to idleness, and an American punk band, The Teen Idles, who no-one is ever going to type in "Idles" to find). This is a clear primary topic. When the page is getting 50 times the traffic of Idles, this is fairly clear. Black Kite (talk) 23:27, 29 August 2020 (UTC) reply

• Support and add a hatnote to the Algerian city that has an accent. While there is a dictionary definition ("he idles away the day") and as a plural of various technical terms, among the pages a user could reasonably expect to be at the name "idles" there is a clear primary topic. -- Yaksar (let's chat) 00:41, 30 August 2020 (UTC) reply
• Support per nom. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 07:31, 30 August 2020 (UTC) reply
• I don't think SMALLDETAILS usually works with the absence of diacritics in a candidate for PT (see User:Crouch, Swale/When it doubt its safest to disambiguate#SMALLDETAILS) but in this case the band gets 29,285 while the place gets 80[ [1]] so its pretty clear that English speakers are far more likely to be looking for this than the place. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 10:26, 30 August 2020 (UTC) reply
• The move will definitely make sense: the redirect Idles was receiving virtually no views before the band came to prominence three years ago, so it's reasonable to assume that the majority of the 25 readers who land on the dab page every day are looking for the band. What makes me uneasy about the move is how recent this popularity is. A primary topic is generally expected to have at least some indication of long-term significance, and that usually takes a bit longer than a few years of popularity to gauge. – Uanfala (talk) 12:28, 30 August 2020 (UTC) reply

• I would agree with that if the alternatives at the dab page had any significant views, or if people were likely to be typing in "Idles" to look for anything else. The pageviews (for over two years now) make it quite clear that that no-one actually is. The band release a new album (on September 25, I think) that it appears is almost certain to be a #1 in the UK, so it is unlikely that the views are likely to go down any time soon. It does seem somewhat pointless that we're making all of those people click twice to find the right page. An average view count of 1,300 per day over the last two years is evidence of consistent viewing. Black Kite (talk) 15:12, 30 August 2020 (UTC) reply

• Support Notfrompedro ( talk) 13:55, 30 August 2020 (UTC) reply
• Support per convincing stats above. -- Michig ( talk) 19:37, 30 August 2020 (UTC) reply
• Support per WP:SMALLDETAILS and/or WP:PRIMARYUSAGE. The overwhelming pageviews are convincing. Station1 ( talk) 20:58, 30 August 2020 (UTC) reply
• Support move of Idles (band) to Idles, but a disambiguation page is not required: disambiguation can be achieved with a hatnote. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 12:52, 31 August 2020 (UTC) reply
  • I think it's better if the dab page is preserved; otherwise, we'd need to have a hatnote linking to at least five articles, and that's a bit too much to handle in a hatnote. – Uanfala (talk) 13:34, 31 August 2020 (UTC) reply
• Support per above. Conifer ( talk) 17:50, 31 August 2020 (UTC) reply

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