Talk:List of Easter films

Requested move 1 April 2021

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. There was some opposition here, but it didn't make it to the point of being unable to discern a consensus. Overall, the argument that the proposed title has greater clarity and is more descriptive of the list came out as the strongest position both in terms of how many people supported it and in terms of being built on stronger underlying principles. The consistency argument is noted, but 'consistency' is a complicated thing, and both arguments for and against the move were based in consistency, ultimately not setting that out as an argument against. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vaticidalprophet 10:25, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

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List of films set around Easter → List of Easter films – Further to the AfD discussion. Better, more focused name. gidonb (talk) 10:03, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

• Support I and others did suggest this in the AFD. Dream Focus 13:21, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
• Note that the top of the article explains its only for Easter related films, not films with Easter vaguely in them since that wouldn't be a valid list. This is a list of films that have something to do with Easter or have Easter as a significant part of them. For Easter specials of regular TV shows, see the list of Easter television specials. For films about the Biblical Easter see List of films based on the Bible. Dream Focus 21:00, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose I find the proposed title to be vague and confusing. ~ HAL333 17:52, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

  The start of the article explains things perfectly. This is a list of films that have something to do with Easter or have Easter as a significant part of them. For Easter specials of regular TV shows, see the list of Easter television specials. For films about the Biblical Easter see List of films based on the Bible. We don't list films that happened around the time of the Easter holiday but had nothing to do with it. Dream Focus 19:08, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

  Regarding the Bible link, it does not appear that list of Bible films or list of Biblical films exist, even as redirects, which would be analogous here. As for other holidays, we have list of Christmas films, but we also have List of films set around Halloween and List of films set around Thanksgiving. Actually, looking at Category:Lists of films set around holidays, "set around" is more common than not. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 19:17, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

  List of films set around Thanksgiving includes movies that have absolutely nothing to do with Thanksgiving, thus the name. Different situation. Instead of just removing things not related to the holiday at all, they changed the name of the article to include unrelated things. They also have a List of Thanksgiving television specials but not a List of television species set around Thanksgiving. The fact that a few places have "set around" in them for a specific reason, doesn't mean other articles should have it when that reason does not exist there. Dream Focus 19:29, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose: Just because they are set around Easter doesn't mean that they are Easter films or films dealing with the Biblical story. This is a completely backwards suggestion. --Nicholas0 (talk) 20:50, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

  @Nicholas0: There is nothing on the list containing films that were just set around Easter. Everything is about the Easter bunny and whatnot. All Biblical Easter films are in a different list article. Dream Focus 20:58, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

• Support. There are gory Holy Week films, set at the first resurrection, which are very different from Easter films set in modern life and filled with bunnies, strolls on Fifth Avenue, and painted egg hunts. Bearian (talk) 21:01, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

  List of holiday horror films shows all the horror films for different holidays. Dream Focus 21:07, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

• Support I take Erik's point in regards to counter-examples such as Films set around Thanksgiving, but I believe imposing a temporal criteria on the list is unnecessarily restrictive, and potentially misleading. It seems to me the list was given its current title with the explicit intent to admit biblical films, but this is no longer a factor. Splitting the list between films focusing on the biblical Easter and films that are thematically linked to the festival of Easter seems like a natural division to me, and to some extent this is already reflected at categorization level: Category:Films about Easter. Betty Logan (talk) 09:57, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

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.