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On 7 February 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album) to What's Going On (album). The result of the discussion was moved.

Chord changes for "What's Goin' On

There's a claim based on Ben Edmond's book on Marvin Gaye that major and minor 7th chords were "unusual" in pop music at the time "What's Goin' On" was written and recorded. That's easily disproved by looking at a chart of the biggest singles of 1970. "Close to You", "We've Only Just Begun", "I'll Be There", "Fire and Rain", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"...the major 7th chord was everywhere in 1970 and 1971. It wasn't in every hit, but it was hardly rare or unusual. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.131.221.129 (talk) 01:13, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 2013

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The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 19:06, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What's Going On → What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album) – The album may be more popular than the titular song, but both are recognized for a very long time in terms of award recognitions and background histories. If moved, the view numbers for the album will go down drastically. George Ho (talk) 00:23, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support - helpful to readers and justified by weight in print references. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:44, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support - the song is easily as notable as the album. Red Slash 05:22, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Why?

Why was this moved again? No one is searching for the other albums also named What's Going On, this album should be the primary destination. It's totally unnecessary. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 00:33, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. This level of disambiguation is unnecessary. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:18, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This constant forking and nitpicking. Is WP:MANONTHECLAPHAMOMNIBUS a policy? It should be. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 18:35, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 02 February 2014

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The result of the proposal was not moved. --BDD (talk) 19:39, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album) → What's Going On – I understand the thinking behind the recent move request; however, as the overwhelming amount of readers are looking for either the song or the album, by moving the primary name to a disamb page, the bulk of readers are arriving on the wrong page and are needing to click through to their desired destination after being distracted by the disamb page. It would be preferable to direct readers to either the album or the song, and then provide a hat note: "This article is about the album/song, for the song/album, click here, for other possible meanings, click here". As the album gets 30% to 40% more readers per month, that would indicate it's the more likely contender for being the primary topic, though using the song as the primary topic would also be acceptable. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 08:23, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Support as proposer. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 08:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - for the reasons above in RM1, and also all the dab fixing work has now been done, why undo it? (btw we don't normally support as proposer). Also from the dab I now notice that What's Going On (song) needs to be moved to What's Going On (Marvin Gaye song) per WP:NCM. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:38, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The reasons are as stated above: under the current system thousands of readers every month are landing in the wrong place and are being momentarily distracted. Doing a little bit of dab fixing is preferable to expecting readers to deal with landing on the wrong page. When we look at naming articles, we are mainly concerned with readers being able to find what they want quickly and easily. The current title for an article that gets over 10,000 hits a month is inappropriate.

I don't see a problem with indicating that I am supporting as proposer as I made it clear in my comment. If that has confused you, however, I'm sorry - that wasn't the intention. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 08:59, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What evidence do you have that anyone would land on What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album) not wanting What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album) ? How exactly? In ictu oculi (talk) 09:12, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@SilkTork, that question is actually currently the topic of discussion at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation. You may want to make your view known there also. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:53, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Procedural note: While fewer RMs have an "as proposer" (or "as nominator," etc.) vote than don't, it's an accepted practice per WP:RMCM. --BDD (talk) 19:50, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose clearly the song is more likely than the album, from the real world usage (as opposed to Wikipedia's own little world). The disambiguation page misleadingly provides the album before the song comes up and from psychological studies, things that appear first get selected more often. -- 70.50.148.248 (talk) 23:57, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The anonymous !voter has confused me. But I support as per pageviews. It does defy my gut instinct but this style of music is not my specialty. Red Slash 21:25, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Two closely-related and highly notable topics share the same name, and many other less notable topics share that name too. That's an excellent reason to have a disambiguation page at the bare title. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:33, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Pageview stats: What's Going On (song) 8720; What's_Going_On_(Marvin_Gaye_album) 12377.
  That clearly fails the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC that it should be "highly likely—much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term". --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:39, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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both links to sputnikmusic at the bottom do not work (one goes to the sputnikmusic 404 page equivalent, and the other says the page was not archived) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A601:A929:8A00:1DC5:5456:8011:EB25 (talk) 03:16, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 22 May 2022

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the pages to the proposed titles at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 04:51, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

– Primary topic per pageviews, and also by long-term significance. See also related RM at What's Going On (Marvin Gaye song). 162 etc. (talk) 16:19, 22 May 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 21:36, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move of associated disambiguation page. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 00:39, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Far too many articles by this title and far too generic name for any to be primary. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:58, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support. None of the disambiguation entries are as relevant as the album, so it can be a time-saver. 2804:14D:1C79:9C7C:F137:A327:A0C8:8EFA (talk) 22:00, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support seems to be a pretty clear primary topic per nom's reasoning Turnagra (talk) 06:51, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the song is extraordinarily important/significant on its own, as its article explains Red Slash 19:09, 7 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Bummed I missed this. Definitely a solid argument to move based on WP:PRIMARYTOPIC page views I support. Please ping me when it comes up again. —В²C ☎ 21:18, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article

Can someone who's contributed to this article nominate it for WP:GA? Seems like it at least deserves that. Would be cool to get this to featured some day. TlonicChronic (talk) 01:12, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 7 February 2024

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The result of the move request was: moved. Request does not go against Wikipedia policies and guidelines and consensus is that the move can be justified by WP:PDAB. (non-admin closure) Bait30 ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 21:54, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album) → What's Going On (album) – This album is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC by a sufficient margin to justify a WP:PDAB. When compared to the other albums by this name – What's Going On (Johnny "Hammond" Smith album), What's Going On (Dirty Dozen Brass Band album), and a partial title match at What's Goin' On (Frank Strozier album) – Gaye's album receives 146.9 times the average monthly pageviews of the other three albums combined. This pageview ratio is comfortably within the precedents for partial disambiguation. The long-term significance criterion also favors this album above the other topics: Gaye's album is often counted among the greatest albums of all time by reputable music publications (e.g. [1], [2], [3], etc.), a level of notability and acclaim that significantly exceeds what any of the other same-named albums have received. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 15:33, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Incomplete disambiguation. Ambiguity is always best avoided. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:39, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is it though for this case? Everything that ModernDayTrilobite stated clearly show that this is the first album with this title that pops up in people’s minds. SailorGardevoir (talk) 10:00, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's not how disambiguation works though. It's not primary topic for What's Going On, so it remains ambiguous. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:09, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I seen plenty of articles that just have a simple qualifier, even if there are other works belonging to said qualifier that shares the same title. SailorGardevoir (talk) 20:05, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I agree with the nominator's rationale. Adumbrativus (talk) 06:12, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Move to What's Going On, which was discussed two years ago, and had considerable support at that time. 162 etc. (talk) 06:30, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Eh, the title track is just as important. SailorGardevoir (talk) 10:01, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. This album is clearly much more important than the other albums of the same name. SailorGardevoir (talk) 09:54, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I also like to point out that all three of the non-Marvin Gaye albums mentioned has a cover of the title track. SailorGardevoir (talk) 23:40, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. The other albums with this name are so obscure that you could bet a hundred dollars that someone means this album when they bring it up without mentioning the artist. Let's drop Marvin Gaye from the title. Songwaters (talk) 23:11, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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