Talk:Ritual (electronic band)

Requested move 9 November 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved with genre disambiguator (closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 12:33, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

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• Ritual (UK band) → Ritual (2010s band)
• Ritual (band) → Ritual (1980s band)

– Disambiguation needed as they're both UK bands and I don't see a primary topic. Flooded with them hundreds 06:21, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

• Support Per WP:PRECISE and WP:PDAB. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:03, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
• Comment Is the decade dismabig the standard, or is the genre of the band used? Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 13:07, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
• Support moving, but Lugnuts is correct that their different musical genres should be preferenced over their years of activity — so the disambiguators should be more like "post-punk band" and "electronic band", or something along those lines. Bearcat (talk) 19:48, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
• People are likely to look for a band using the "old band/new band" thinking so the decades disambiguator may be more helpful than the genres because they are inconsistent as bands and musicians nowadays fuse multiple genres. Flooded with them hundreds 08:23, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Except that people may not necessarily know whether the band they're looking for is the "old band" or the "new band". Given that these days the "discovery" of a band the reader didn't already know about is likely to come from hearing them on YouTube or Spotify or Pandora or Slacker, people who weren't already familiar with the band, and are looking for a Wikipedia article to learn more about this "new to them" band they just discovered on a streaming platform, are much likelier to know what style of music they just heard than they are when the music was made. Bearcat (talk) 20:38, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

• Support moving but oppose decade disambiguation per Bearcat and Lugnuts. The three musical artists I discovered most recently were active in the 1980s (Martika), the 2010s (The Dead South) and the 1960s-1980s (Jeanette (singer)). Until I looked them up on Wikipedia I didn't know this. Thryduulf (talk) 17:52, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
• Support moving but oppose decade disambiguation I find that it is clearer if the band is identified by genre since it looks like they only existed in the 2010s with that identifier. EllenZoe (talk) 15:49, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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