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Requested move 25 September 2017

Latest comment: 6 years ago7 comments7 people in discussion

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved as too ambiguous (and also likely a case of WP:RECENTISM), early close per WP:SNOW (non-admin closure) Snuggums (talk / edits) 23:30, 27 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

Holiday Special (South Park) → Holiday Special – It seems as if it is "Christmas special" that redirects to "Christmas by medium", as "Holiday Special" and "Holiday special" redirect to here. I apologize for trying to make the move myself, but since there is nothing else at "Holiday Special", I mean, wouldn't it make sense to move this article there? One opposing reason may be because "holiday special" should also redirect to "Christmas by medium", but this episode is specifically called "Holiday Special", and holiday special literally could refer to any holiday besides Christmas. So what I propose is that this article gets renamed "Holiday Special" and for other "holiday specials", we could use hatnotes to specify. JE98 (talk) 16:04, 25 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

The reason I titled the article the way that I did, and the reason I reverted the move, is because the term "holiday special" is a VERY vague term, often confused with the slew of Christmas specials that dominate American television during the holiday season. There are a number of these "holiday specials" during the season. I redirected the article Holiday Special here because some people may search just for that title, either trying to find the South Park episode or the Christmas television shows. I believe that the addition of the "South Park" clarification and the hatnote removes all this confusion. - SanAnMan (talk) 16:46, 25 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
Oppose per article creator SanAnMan above, and way too generic and many of those imdb Holiday Specials are already mentioned on en.wp In ictu oculi (talk) 10:44, 26 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
Oppose there's a Star Wars Holiday Special aswell, and could be any number of others. MfortyoneA (talk) 22:56, 25 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
Oppose as above. It's far too generic to not be disambiguated. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:05, 27 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
Oppose as above. It’s very vague and many franchises have had holiday specials. BeatlesLedTV (talk) 22:37, 27 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

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