Talk:Adele (given name)

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In French, this name means good humor, and in German, it means Nobility. Adele spelt with an accent over the means pleasure or pleasureable in French.

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved after 52 days. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:45, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

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Adele (name) → Adele – "Adele" was moved to "Adele (name)" with no discussion after someone thought "Adele" should redirect to the singer, I think this should be reverted per primary use, it being a common name with quite a few very famous bearers. Antandrus's view on the move. John Cengiz talk 18:23, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

• Move Adele (singer) to Adele, per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Adele (singer) had over 1,000,000 pageviews in the past 30 days. Adele had over 140,000, the large majority of whom almost certainly were looking for the singer rather than info about the name or anyone else on the list. Other possible uses - the language, ship or musical - were minimal, under 1,000 combined. For Adele to be a list of names seems to inconvenience tens of thousands or[of] readers. Station1 (talk) 20:12, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
• Move. I agree with Station1. I think "Adele" should be moved to "Adele (given name)" and the search term "Adele" should lead to the British singer's page. I'm sad to say that I was engaged in an edit war with the JohnCengiz77 over this page, and as an Admin, I should have known better. I was the one who initially created the page move. My rationale was the following, posted on the use's talk page:

According to Wikipedia:Disambiguation, "Although an ambiguous term may refer to more than one topic, it is sometimes the case that one of these topics is highly likely—much more likely than any other, and more likely than all the others combined—to be the subject being sought when a reader enters that ambiguous term in the Search box. If there is such a topic, then it is called the primary topic for that term. If a primary topic exists, the ambiguous term should be the title of, or redirect to, the article on that topic." In other words, when people come to Wikipedia and search for "Adele", it's probably a safe bet that they didn't come here to search the history of the given name; the singer, being on the level of success she is right now, is the primary topic for the search term. See basic terms like "Elvis", "Bono" (given names) or "Shakespeare" a surname etc— these lead directly to the page that people will most likely be searching for.

I searched for the singer and it took me a good few minutes of plodding though a near-infinite list just to come up on her page! Chances are, if I search "Adele" in this day and age, and with her level of success, I'm not looking for some random French nun who lived in the 1800s. Not many people are going to put "(artist)" in the search box.

I think Adele should redirect to the singer, with a dab notice on the singers page. Orane (talk) 21:16, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

• I also agree with Station1. Seems to be a clear primary topic.--Kotniski (talk) 13:19, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
• Comment - The set up in place just now actually works quite well, with "Adele" redirecting to the name page and the hatnote linking to the singer, making it easy to find her.

I count about 45 thousand views on just a few of the most famous Adeles in the past month; Adele Astaire, Adèle Anderson, Adelle Davis, Adele Givens, Adèle Haenel, Adele Jergens, Adele King, Adelle Lutz, Adele Mara, and Adele Silva.

I think that the views also show that the vast majority of people find the singer's page by Google, so just by going to the "Adele" page, quite a lot of people are looking for one of the countless other Adeles.

Possibly, "Adele Adkins" is the better name for the singer's page, she often uses her last name, I don't see why she should make "Adele" seem like a less common name because she's chosen to omit her surname when it's clearly a common given name.

She's not really at Cher's level and there aren't any other Cher's at all, let alone 75 people with the name on Wikipedia, and some very famous bearers as with Adele Astaire or Adele Silva. John Cengiz talk 00:19, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Adele (singer) actually gets 4 times the pageviews of Cher, about a million more this month. (And there are a number of other people on WP whose first name is Cher, as well as a river and department of France.) Station1 (talk) 05:43, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

• Support; however I think probably both of the articles Adele (name) and Adele (disambiguation) should be combined/merged to form Adele, in the same way that Adelaide (disambiguation) includes both people and other uses. Adele should definitely NOT redirect or move to the singer. Good grief, Madonna doesn't redirect to the singer. Softlavender (talk) 12:05, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

• Comment. This discussion is well over a month old. Why hasn't it been closed or relisted? Softlavender (talk) 23:24, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Singer Adele in the main list

Not everyone is familiar with the dab concept, nor may immediately notice that the pop singer is mentioned at the very top. For the sake of completeness, and to be helpful to those who may have trouble navigating the page, I added the singer Adele to the main list as well (at the top not because of notability but because she is only known by the one name, while all the others have last names and would therefore follow her in alphabetical order). 68.146.72.113 (talk) 13:56, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Sounds good to me -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 14:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Additional trivia

From German Wiki: "Adele is a female given name adopted from French, originally borrowed from German. The name is also a short form of Adelheid" (whose English form is Adelaide). In German, the first E is accented https://de.forvo.com/word/adele/#de. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8109:25C0:6C8:C8:F17F:6360:C6AB (talk) 15:42, 30 October 2021 (UTC)