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Requested move 1 August 2024
| It has been proposed in this section that ABC News (United States) be renamed and moved to ABC News. A bot will list this discussion on the requested moves current discussions subpage within an hour of this tag being placed. The discussion may be closed 7 days after being opened, if consensus has been reached (see the closing instructions). Please base arguments on article title policy, and keep discussion succinct and civil. Please use {{subst:requested move}}. Do not use {{requested move/dated}} directly. Links: current log • target log • direct move |
ABC News (United States) → ABC News –
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| I hereby relist this RM, which was originally listed on 18 June 2024. As there wasn't a consensus to overturn BilledMammal's previous close at the move review, I don't think it's right to move the page back to ABC News until this discussion reaches consensus. Leave it here until the RM has played out in full, please. —S Marshall T/C 15:38, 1 August 2024 (UTC) |
– Australia's ABC News is its national broadcaster and is its most widely watched newscast. The Australian broadcaster reaches 8 digit levels of people on a weekly basis, while the U.S. company averages around 7 million on nightly newscasts. And, in absolute terms, Australia's ABC is quite a major news organization. I don't think the U.S. subsidiary of Disney is more of a WP:PTOPIC here, so I propose moving this to the proposed target and moving ABC News (disambiguation) to take over this page's title. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 20:57, 18 June 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. JuniperChill (talk) 20:32, 25 June 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. —S Marshall T/C 15:38, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Note: WikiProject Television/Television stations task force, WikiProject Disney, WikiProject Media, WikiProject United States, WikiProject Television/American television task force, WikiProject Companies, WikiProject Television, and WikiProject Journalism have been notified of this discussion. Векочел (talk) 11:44, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose. This has gone through many requested moves and all of them were to keep the status quo. Georgia guy (talk) 21:07, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
- The last discussion was 2017, and the media market has changed quite a bit since then—particularly so in television. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 22:06, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose While ABC News owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) had considerable more audiences in absolute terms than the U.S. counterpart with similar name, we don't considered that, because without specify the country that originated when we searched on internet, "ABC News" is overhelmingly referred to the American one instead of Australian, even when we included the digital and social media platforms. So WP:PRIMARYTOPIC applies here (see ). ABC News owned by ABC Australia may be the primary topic in its home country, but not elsewhere. 103.111.100.82 (talk) 00:14, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:59, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- Support: oppose arguments have a very US-centric worldview. YorkshireExpat (talk) 21:27, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- Let me quote WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.
Perhaps the most commonly rejected criterion is that the primary topic should only belong to what "first comes to mind". This argument is inevitably tainted by factors such as one's location, ideology, ethnicity, and other personal biases, but we are trying to build an encyclopedia that is untainted by systemic bias. Therefore, the primary topic is determined without regard to certain attributes, such as national origin, of the articles in question.
- Emphasis mine. Ergzay (talk) 20:31, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Anecdotally, most Australians are unfamiliar with the American ABC, and might be surprised to find out it's not the PTOPIC just because it isn't American. I do not believe either news organization has a reputation that exceeds their domestic audiences. AVNOJ1989 (talk) 03:48, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- By that argument the island of Java is unknown to most Americans and when they hear it their first thoughts are either going to be Java on one's computer or the Java they drink, but Java still links to the island of Java. Just most of an entire country's population is going to be surprised does not factor into whether it is the primary topic. Have a look at WP:BUTIKNOWABOUTIT. Ergzay (talk) 20:37, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support as above. Arbitrarily0 22:06, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support per WP:PT1. The US news organisation doesn't appear to have usage more than all other topics combined, but would be good to get clear search data comparison presented, Tom B (talk) 19:20, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose the original move and Support moving ABC News (United States) back to ABC News. Comparing the Austrialia weekly numbers that include website/app users with the US nightly TV viewership is meaningless. If you look at Red-tailed hawk's links, all of ABC News Australia's TV broadcasts combined only get ~3,000,000 weekly viewers (the most-viewed episode of their most-viewed show only got 1.6 million viewers), compared to ABC News US's single "World News Tonight" broadcasts alone getting ~7,000,000 nightly viewers. If you want something to compare with the "8-digit levels of people" reached in Australia, per https://www.disneyadvertising.com/our-brands/abc-news/, the American ABC News reaches 167,000,000 people per month. The fact that one is owned by Disney and the other is owned by a publicly owned body is irrelevant and sounds like WP:IDONTLIKEIT. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 19:43, 1 August 2024 (UTC)- Pinging those that participated in the move review that have not yet participated here: @Adumbrativus, Barkeep49, BD2412, Berchanhimez, BilledMammal, CapnZapp, Cavarrone, CFA, Drmies, Einsof, Ergzay, Extraordinary Writ, GTrang, Hemmers, Jessintime, LilianaUwU, Mclay1, ModernDayTrilobite, MrSchimpf, Netoholic, Noren, Paine Ellsworth, PARAKANYAA, Pppery, Red Slash, Robertsky, S Marshall, Sariel Xilo, SchroCat, SilkTork, SmokeyJoe, SnowFire, Soafy234, SounderBruce, SportingFlyer, Srnec, StAnselm, Star Mississippi, TarnishedPath, ToadetteEdit, Tpbradbury, Vpab15, Walsh90210, and Οἶδα: --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 19:49, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging those that participated in the move review that have not yet participated here: @Adumbrativus, Barkeep49, BD2412, Berchanhimez, BilledMammal, CapnZapp, Cavarrone, CFA, Drmies, Einsof, Ergzay, Extraordinary Writ, GTrang, Hemmers, Jessintime, LilianaUwU, Mclay1, ModernDayTrilobite, MrSchimpf, Netoholic, Noren, Paine Ellsworth, PARAKANYAA, Pppery, Red Slash, Robertsky, S Marshall, Sariel Xilo, SchroCat, SilkTork, SmokeyJoe, SnowFire, Soafy234, SounderBruce, SportingFlyer, Srnec, StAnselm, Star Mississippi, TarnishedPath, ToadetteEdit, Tpbradbury, Vpab15, Walsh90210, and Οἶδα: --Ahecht (TALK
- Support. Given one is more nationally prominent where it broadcasts and the other is not, but has a larger audience, I feel that is a good rationale for having neither be the primary topic, instead of raw numbers which are crude. PARAKANYAA (talk) 19:51, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Are we suddenly pretending that Albania and Spain do not exist? There are more "ABC News" topics than just the United States and Australia. There is a clear absence of a primary topic across the entire set of possible worldwide meanings. BD2412 T 19:59, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose Ahecht's analysis above of viewership indicates that the US based ABC News is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. (responding after being pinged) Sariel Xilo (talk) 19:59, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support, per above. There is no primary topic. Both news channels are quite prominent in their corresponding countries. Vpab15 (talk) 19:59, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose (aka move ABC News (United States) back). The American news company is clearly the primary topic by any reasonable measure. For example, look at the page views since the move in question was made . ~~ Jessintime (talk) 20:11, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose As was previously discussed, there was vastly more page views to the United States page than there was to the Australia one. That makes it WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. That there are other ABC News elsewhere in the world than these two further is not relevant because those have even smaller amounts of traffic. Ergzay (talk) 20:24, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- That isn’t entirely correct, and isn’t the full story in any case, as the Australian ABC News isn’t the only other ABC News. Reviewing all such ABC’s at the MR, we found that this ABC News only receives 52% of the page views (note that this analysis was done when ABC News was a redirect here, meaning views for this ABC News were properly counted. BilledMammal (talk) 21:57, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: the strong arguments above indicate there is no primary topic. But I have no idea if that is "support" or "oppose" since this RM seems horribly messed up. StAnselm (talk) 21:14, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support means that the article about the US broadcaster would be at ABC News (United States) and ABC News would be a disambiguation page. Oppose means that the article about the US broadcaster would be at ABC News and ABC News (disambiguation) would be a disambiguation page.
- --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:30, 1 August 2024 (UTC)- No, the new relisted RM is "ABC News (United States) → ABC News". StAnselm (talk) 21:52, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- @S Marshall Can you clarify? --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 01:19, 2 August 2024 (UTC) - I think that is for a technical reason. With the pages currently staying put, RMCD bot at WP:RM would throw a fit with the original lines and put the discussion in the "Malformed requests" section.
(Unfortunately, RMCD bot is already grumpy with how this is listed; currently this discussion is listed in the backlog portion as the last relist RMCD bot can see is the June 25 one.)--Super Goku V (talk) 06:25, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- @S Marshall Can you clarify? --Ahecht (TALK
- No, the new relisted RM is "ABC News (United States) → ABC News". StAnselm (talk) 21:52, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- I also don't understand what's what here. There are three proposals, but "ABC News (United States) → ABC News" and "ABC News → ABC News (United States)" are, eh, remarkably similar, and "ABC News (disambiguation) → ABC News" seems to have happened already. So I have no idea if I'm opposing or supporting, but I have an opinion.Here is what I think is right: there is no PRIMARY topic, and all the numbers we throw at the one or the other are kind of meaningless, since it's all in the millions, and I'm not even sure what the sources are for them. So, ABC News should be the dab page, and this meaningless fight over whether Australia has the biggest dick or the US, whether a Disney subsidiary is less important than a news organization, who cares: these are not good arguments, and simpler is better, with the various ABCs having a country behind them to identify them. Drmies (talk) 21:59, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- I'm confused by the formatting of the requested move, but I support disambiguating both countries' ABC News, which appears to be the current state of the pages. There is no primary topic. The divide in these discussions and the debate over which is more popular is proof of that. MClay1 (talk) 02:39, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- This, as others have noted is quite confusing. I don't know whether to vote oppose that I oppose the move back or support as in I supported the original move. @S Marshall, It would have been a lot simpler to start a new RM and ping all participants. However per BilledMammal and Drmies I support the original move as I think they've made a good case that there is no WP:PTOPIC, especial given that when all ABC News from every country is considered the United States one received 52% of page views. Looking at just the Australian and the United States entities I don't think it makes much sense to differentiate when the audience numbers for both are in the millions per week. TarnishedPath 03:19, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support move as there are two ABC Newses and there is no primary topic between them. Toadette 06:02, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging those that participated in the original discussion: @Red-tailed hawk, Georgia guy, Necrothesp, YorkshireExpat, AVNOJ1989, and Arbitrarily0: --Super Goku V (talk) 06:09, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Still confused by the structure, but I support the current position as at this timestamp: ABC News as the disambiguation page, with ABC News (Australia) and ABC News (United States) as to two article titles. If the closer is in any doubt as to my meaning, please ping. - SchroCat (talk) 07:46, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Disambiguate both - I don't believe there is any lasting value in either being a primary topic. Disambiguating both in the long term aids with overall clarity and avoids inaccurate wikilinks. That said, I dislike the current country disambiguation terms. These do not fall under WP:NCTV - the articles are about news divisions, not programs, and those divisions produce multiple forms of media. These more properly should be disambiguated by using the names of their parent corporations - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and ABC News (American Broadcasting Company). Such disambiguation isn't explicit in WP:NCCORP, but probably should be. -- Netoholic @ 08:22, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Do you find this confusing?
- The question is: what's the primary topic of ABC News. Consider writing something like "ABC News America" or "ABC News Australia" or "Disambiguate".
- A lot of editors feel this reduces to which topic gets the most page views, and a closer might benefit from critical analysis of that position.—S Marshall T/C 06:48, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Note: WikiProject Journalism, WikiProject Television/Television stations task force, WikiProject Media, and WikiProject Television have been notified of this discussion. TarnishedPath 07:51, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
How has this been decided??
This page got many requested moves in its early history, and they all got the consensus to keep the article at ABC News. But now it got one that allowed it to be moved. How did it change?? Does it have anything to do with the popularity of Australian Wikipedians?? (For anyone who answers this question please study this talk page's whole history.) Georgia guy (talk) 00:23, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- There actually seems to be opposition post-move over the consensus. See User talk:BilledMammal#ABC News move. A move review has also been started at Misplaced Pages:Move review/Log/2024 July#ABC_News_(United_States). Limmidy (talk) 00:57, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- Just found this via @BilledMammal doing mass edits all over wikipedia re-pointing links. I added my comment to the move review. Truly a wild change without much consensus. Ergzay (talk) 06:27, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- It may be best for links to be disambiguated (with piping) even if the article title is not. This makes it clear which article is intended to be referenced and provides future-proofing in case of eventual disambiguation. — BarrelProof (talk) 21:37, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- For those wondering, here's the last several moves over several years with almost universal opposition for the moves. Talk:ABC News (United States)/Archive 2 Ergzay (talk) 06:33, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
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