Talk:Watching (TV series)

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Surely "watching" refers primarily to the birdwatching hobby of the lead character(s) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.214.14 (talk) 14:19, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, changing 206.165.150.70 (talk) 08:48, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Series 1 original title sequence

It should be noted that when series 1 was first broadcast and for its original Friday night repeat run on ITV it had a specially filmed title sequence involving Malcolm and Brenda messing about at the side of a boating lake with a row boat, but on later rpts such as on Granada plus, and now on DVD, the titles were changed to a montage of shots from the series as had been done for the second and all subsequent series titles.81.111.124.190 (talk) 05:32, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 28 February 2021

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: Consensus to move and disambiguate. (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 20:43, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Watching → Watching (TV series) – I propose that the clear primary topic of the term, Watching, is Looking; alternatively, perhaps their is no clear primary topic and this title should be disambiguated. Either way, this article should be moved, and my first choice would be to retarget "Watching" to "Looking". BD2412 T 19:08, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support a DAB page given that there is also Watching (song) (a redirect) and Watching (Thompson Twins song) though the TV series gets more views (3,077) than Looking (1,263) and the Thompson song (88)[[1]]. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:26, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- There is also Harlan Ellison's Watching, which appears to sometimes just be called Watching. BD2412 T 19:54, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Support a DAB, the TV series is clearly not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.--Ortizesp (talk) 23:37, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support disambiguating, not redirect. Looking may not be the primary topic. Twassman | Talk | Contribs 21:56, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support and create a DAB page. Rreagan007 (talk) 22:27, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Aside from the fact that watching is not synonymous with looking, pageviews indcate this is the overwhelming WP:primary topic for the title. Add a hatnote pointing to looking if necessary, but not many readers are likely to use it. Station1 (talk) 22:34, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- The concept of "watching" is discussed in Looking, as watching is one kind of looking. There is also an article on Observation, although it is focused on the scientific use of the term. I note that the TV show "watching" is actually named for the practice of birdwatching, which is sometimes colloquially called "watching", and which gets several times the pageviews of "Watching". BD2412 T 23:55, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - I see only one sentence about "watching" in Looking and the word isn't mentioned in Observation. That's to be expected since we're not a dictionary and "watching" isn't really an encyclopedic topic. And it's hard to believe anyone would expect an article about birdwatching to be titled "Watching". Station1 (talk) 00:09, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    - I have also added Surveillance to the list, which does mention "watching". BD2412 T 17:59, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: I have created Watching (disambiguation), which can be moved to this title if "Looking" is not determined to be the primary topic. BD2412 T 00:03, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support ( move Watching (disambiguation) to basename) per above. No clear primary topic for this title. Move dab page to main basename. Paintspot Infez (talk) 04:53, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support the newly-created Watching (disambiguation) page and the expected move of its main title header to Watching. WP:NOPRIMARYTOPIC. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 10:08, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support jaw-droppingly WP:ASTONISHing. And move dab page in as proposed. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:31, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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