Category talk:Music genres

RFM discussion: October 2015–January 2018
I am requesting that this page be moved to Category:Musical genres. Nobody refers to the contents of this category as "music genres", the common term is musical genres. Pur ple back pack 89  20:07, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The claim made in the nomination is blatantly false. — Ungoliant (falai) 20:10, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * How often have you heard a Native English speaker use the phrase "music genres"? Cuz I'm a Native English speaker; I hear "musical genres" and "genres of music" often, but almost never "music genres" Pur ple back pack 89   20:15, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Very, very often. — Ungoliant (falai) 20:15, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. The rationale given makes no sense, as Ungoliant mentions. —CodeCat 20:53, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The rationale is that the phraseology "musical genres" is more common than "music genres". How the hell is that not a sensible reason for a rename? Pur ple back <font color="#CC33CC">pack <font color="FFBB00">89   21:44, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * It would make sense if it were obviously true. —CodeCat 21:47, 12 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Neutral. I really don't care which it's called, but "musical genre" is indeed more common than "music genre". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:51, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, I guess it's true, CodeCat <font face="Verdana"><font color="#3A003A">Pur <font color="#800080">ple <font color="#991C99">back <font color="#CC33CC">pack <font color="FFBB00">89  21:57, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * It doesn't look like it's obviously true, nor did it appear so when you first made your claim, nor is your claim that nobody refers to it as "music genres" accurate, as we can see now from the data. —CodeCat 22:18, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Why does "obvious" have to be the threshold? If it's 60-40 or 70-30 in favor of musical, the title should be musical.  And the data say's it's musical by better than 2-1.  It doesn't have to be 99-1, though in my circles it's damn near that. <font face="Verdana"><font color="#3A003A">Pur <font color="#800080">ple <font color="#991C99">back <font color="#CC33CC">pack <font color="FFBB00">89   22:50, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think this threshold is big enough to consider renaming. "Music genre" is clearly widespread enough as well, and easily understood. We don't always have to use the exact most common phrasing. And "obvious" is a threshold because how else would we make a decision based on your claims? You never gave any evidence, so all we could go by was that your claim was not obviously true. Obvious would be if someone said that "a bird in the hand" is a lot more common than "a mouse in the hand". —CodeCat 23:59, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, like you've never renamed anything primarily because the name change was "obvious" to you. Right... <font face="Verdana"><font color="#3A003A">Pur <font color="#800080">ple <font color="#991C99">back <font color="#CC33CC">pack <font color="FFBB00">89  00:06, 13 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I find a 2:1 difference recently and a larger difference earlier at Google N-grams, favoring musical genre(s). It seems more natural to me though I often think of senses of musical other than what is intended when I hear this. DCDuring TALK 23:40, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * moving per DCDuring: GNV prefers Musical genres in 2:1 ratio in 2008 and in 3:1 in 2000 . The GNV picture until 1940 is even more striking. --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:45, 17 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Moved. - -sche (discuss) 20:49, 14 January 2018 (UTC)