Talk:Black to the Future (TV series)

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On 6 August 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to Black to the Future (documentary series). The result of the discussion was Moved to Black to the Future (TV series).

Reference to?[edit]

Reference to the obvious (Back to the Future), or reference to Mark Dery's notable chapter entitled "Black to the Future" (1994) which served as the first usage of the term Afro-futurism? Ghostwhip (talk) 22:20, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 6 August 2022[edit]

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: Moved to Black to the Future (TV series). Dab page to take over Black to the Future. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 06:44, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

– This TV series is not the primary topic. Per pageviews, it seems that the Black to the Future (Sons of Kemet album) could actually be primary, but this TV series is definitely not. Natg 19 (talk) 22:26, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nomination. There are four entries listed upon the Black to the Future (disambiguation) page, with no indication that the four-episode TV miniseries broadcast in February 2009 made such a historical impact that it still overshadows the combined prominence of the remaining three entries. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 02:13, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support moving DAB to primary. (Timewasters currently gets more pageviews, but that's recentism and relatively few people know that series by its working title.) For the first part, I would like to counter-propose Black to the Future → Black to the Future (TV series) or possibly Black to the Future (miniseries) as the target disambiguator. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television) recommends (TV series) (also (miniseries), (game show), (talk show), and (TV program) but does not mention documentary series). While not codified in the naming conventions, there seems to have been a migration of disambiguators from (documentary series) to (TV series) beginning around 2017, with an intitle search only finding two articles (not counting redirects) retaining (documentary series). There is some dissent to this (see Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)/Archive 15 § Articles disambig'ed with (documentary), etc. and Talk:Vikings (2012 TV series)) but practise seems to prefer (TV series). Because the documentary tells a history, I believe there is enough of a connecting narrative to consider it a series rather than a program. – Reidgreg (talk) 14:24, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Reidgreg (TV series) or (miniseries) is fine by me. Natg 19 (talk) 22:14, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I too would likewise support either "Black to the Future (TV series)" or "Black to the Future (miniseries)". —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:53, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:32, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.