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: No consensus to move. (non-admin closure) Surachit (talk) 01:03, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Major → Major (military rank)
• Major (disambiguation) → Major

Not primary topic. Interstellarity (talk) 21:56, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Here's a search query for mainspace [[major]] wikilinks, ordered randomly. I checked 60, and found 0 that were mistargeted. Bad ptopics usually come with a pretty high rate of mistargeted links. Since I'm not seeing it here, I'm inclined to think the current ptopic is appropriate. @Interstellarity: What are the principal other meanings that you see as competing with the military rank for primary topic? Colin M (talk) 16:59, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  @Colin M: Other meanings can be a college major, there is also major and minor in music. Also, Minor is a disambiguation page and has a similar meanings to major. Interstellarity (talk) 17:26, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  erm... Because there is no minor in military? —usernamekiran(talk) 23:02, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  I fixed all I found, out of 5,500 hits there were: 8 articles referring to academic major, 3 to major scale, 3 to "big", and 1 to tennis. – Thjarkur (talk) 02:05, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose. Colin M's check just confirms what I suspected from a glance at the dab page. There is no problem in need of a fix. Srnec (talk) 01:39, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• The military rank will always have the most incoming links, but I imagine a significant number of our readers will be looking for majors in colleges and music. I've added them to the hatnote to make navigation easier. This page has 20,000 monthly views while the disambiguation page has only 650, so my intuition may be incorrect (do we have numbers on whether readers actually click on disambiguation pages?). Incoming links were almost all correct as above, would require a bot to fix those 5,000 links. I do think this move would be somewhat helpful to readers but it's maybe enough to have the other common targets in the hatnote. – Thjarkur (talk) 02:05, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Support per Minor. Hyperbolick (talk) 19:45, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  With all due respect, I think this is a facile argument. Orange doesn't have a primary topic. Does that mean that Red, Green and Purple should all be dab pages as well? Each case is different because each term has a different set of ambiguous terms of varying significance. Colin M (talk) 19:54, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Major is more like Orange. Much more, and clearly. Hyperbolick (talk) 21:59, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong support There is no WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for this word._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 07:03, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. Not seen greatly more than Major scale. So I don't see a problem with this proposal. --Quiz shows 09:49, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• This page has been at this place since 2003. I'm pretty sure it is older than any policy suggesting it should be moved. We should therefore ignore such policies and leave it as is, especially when the evidence suggests that nobody is the worse for it. Srnec (talk) 17:50, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. There is no convincing reason to change the long-standing status quo. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 12:57, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. Per arguments listed above. Garuda28 (talk) 14:27, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 22:05, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. No evidence presented that any other topic is a contender for the primary. The status quo is correct.  — Amakuru (talk) 16:27, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• oppose major is definitely primary topic. Also per Colin M's check, and per Amakuru. —usernamekiran(talk) 22:59, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose A solution in search of a problem. --rogerd (talk) 23:27, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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