Talk:John McCrea (musician)

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god this article sucks. given start rating 68.100.5.79 22:32, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously. What a totally lame article for such an AMAZING artist! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.234.226.76 (talk) 16:43, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Porn shops

I noticed that the "porn shops" doesn't match the footnote so I removed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.103.214.64 (talk) 07:20, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CAKE?

Is there a reason that CAKE is in all-caps? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.123.61.172 (talk) 16:34, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 5 May 2016

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The result of the move request was: Consensus seems to show that John McCrea should be moved to John McCrea (comics) and John McCrea (disambiguation) be moved to John McCrea. No consensus supporting the move of John McCrea (musician). (non-admin closure). Anarchyte (work | talk) 09:37, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

John McCrea (musician) → John McCrea
John McCrea → John McCrea (comics)

– -I think it is quite likely that the musician is the primary topic. He gets the most pageviews for "John McCrea" by a large margin (86%), and has long-term significance as a member of a band active for decades. Disagree with that? Well, I think you'll probably agree that the John McCrea currently occupying the undisambiguated page is not the primary topic, as his pageviews are minor; even at the undisambiguated page he only manages an astonishingly low 10% for all things John McCrea. Nohomersryan (talk) 16:17, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose first - i.e. oppose ambiguation of musician, Support second i.e. support disambiguation of comic book writer. Move John McCrea (disambiguation) to plain name space; Doing sudden flips between two of several names on a common name list for No.1 slots isn't helpful to anyone linking to Wikipedia. Nor to anyone else. In ictu oculi (talk) 18:14, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
What iio said. Dicklyon (talk) 14:34, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the singer becoming the primary topic for now, though the comics man is not. Taylor Trescott - ^{my talk} + _{my edits} 02:18, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support as proposed per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. The singer is clearly what a vast majority of readers are looking for. The comics illustrator is not.--Cúchullain ^t/c 16:17, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Inadequate notice

Really, there should have been some notice of this discussion on Talk:John McCrea (disambiguation), which is now Talk:John McCrea. No one seems to have paid the slightest attention to WP:FIXDABLINKS. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:15, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 10 April 2017

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– We're coming up on one year of the illustrator being moved from the undisambiguated title, and the musician is still quite obviously the primary topic, with 89% of pageviews (compared to 86% last time around). Now that "sudden flips" is no longer an issue, there's no reason not to give readers what they're looking for. Nohomersryan (talk) 05:26, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom, clearly and consistently the primary topic. Jellyman (talk) 10:06, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Absolutely no clear primary topic here. He's not that well-known. Page views down to pure WP:RECENTISM. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:01, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- I really don't think that's true, the band has been around for 23 years and haven't released an album in 6 years. Nohomersryan (talk) 11:42, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - The article quality of the musician bio isn't that great. Most viewed or not, the musician isn't well known or significant enough to be primary. BTW, I got confused with Joel McCrea, the actor. --George Ho (talk) 12:23, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support − I opposed the last time, but that was because I was not all that into the idea of swapping the pages around. This time, there's no such barrier, and the musician meets WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Taylor Trescott - ^{my talk} + _{my edits} 00:25, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]