Talk:Star Wars: Starfighter

Primary topic?

The film should be the primary topic over the game. Last year, the game had 77 pageviews per day, and this year, it's in the hundreds directly because of film-related details. (The major spikes in pageviews are all attributable to the film as well.) Basically, a lot more readers were arriving at the game article looking for the film article. In case WP:CRYSTAL is a concern, the worst-performing Star Wars film, Solo from 2018, still had in 2024 a daily pageview of 1,540, and even more this year with 1,835. Erik (talk | contrib) 12:18, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

I would support this move if others agree, it will need to happen eventually anyway. - adamstom97 (talk) 16:54, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

I also agree that this film is going to be the inevitable primary topic, and would support moving it as such. — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥 ^{(discuss · contribs)} 17:29, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

Trailblazer101, Adamstom.97, I've requested a move below. Erik (talk | contrib) 23:42, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Requested move 29 September 2025

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. Pageviews are high enough for the film to be the primary topic; the video game's article views only spiked after the creation of the film's article, showing that most reader's were looking for the film. Placing little weight on !votes which disregards or incorrectly uses polices and guidelines, as strong reasoning opposing them were brought up during the discussion. (closed by non-admin page mover) veko. (user | talk | contribs) he/him 23:38, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

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Star Wars: Starfighter (film) → Star Wars: Starfighter – In August 2025, the video game article was at Star Wars: Starfighter and had a daily average of 583 views. In September, after the disambiguation to Star Wars: Starfighter (video game), it had a daily average of only 67 views. (Last year, it averaged 77 views.) This means most readers were arriving at the video game article looking for the film article.

Meanwhile, the film article has had a daily average of 3.5K views, and as stated in the discussion above, the worst-performing Star Wars film, Solo from 2018, still has a daily pageview today of nearly 1.8K. So the film is the primary topic for Star Wars: Starfighter now and for the foreseeable future, and we do not need two disambiguation terms at a disambiguation page. The film article can have a hatnote linking to the video game article and to the list of Star Wars starfighters. Erik (talk | contrib) 23:41, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Support move as proposed, per nom and the above discussion. This film is clearly the primary topic. — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥 ^{(discuss · contribs)} 23:43, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Support per nom. - adamstom97 (talk) 08:46, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose Obvious WP:RECENTISM and WP:CRYSTALBALL here. I agree it's likely the film will be the primary topic, but I also see no reason why we can't wait until that is retrospectively clear. We are not working for Disney's advertising department. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 07:10, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

  This is the entire history of the video game article (daily average pageview of 78 before 2025), and the spikes you see at the end are because of the film. The whole point of WP:P1 is that the primary topic "is highly likely—much more likely than any other single topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term". You're saying here that the video game article has a chance of upsetting that. The goal of this is for readers to get to the film article directly, which they aren't today. It doesn't matter if it's a commercial topic or not, that directness should be achieved regardless. Erik (talk | contrib) 11:27, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

  Looking more closely, the essay WP:RECENTISM does not even mention primary topics or disambiguating article titles in the body, and WP:DISAMBIG does not even mention "recent" or anything related. Furthermore. WP:CRYSTALBALL has no applicable content here, unless you think the article should actually be deleted instead. It is a completely valid topic today. Not only that, pageviews of the film article have not even peaked. Erik (talk | contrib) 11:53, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

  Precisely this. The film article is only going to become inevitably more sought after by our readers, so we should follow suit to ensure the main intended topic is easily accessible. This has nothing to do with promoting Disney's upcoming film and is everything to do with meeting the demands of our readers and ensuring a smooth transition to where they expect to end up when searching for a certain topic. — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥 ^{(discuss · contribs)} 15:49, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

• Support per nom and above the film is clearly the primary topic. Vestrian24Bio 16:18, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

  I don't support it. Wikipedia shouldn't be guided by article views. This article is getting a lot of views, which means people are finding content about the film. The game came first, so it should have the title. MatheusLimaLisboa (talk) 17:45, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

  WP:DETERMINEPRIMARY literally directs users to use page views as one of many ways to determine what a primary topic is. We know other Star Wars films have become the primary topic over other media, so why would the case be any different here? — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥 ^{(discuss · contribs)} 01:06, 6 October 2025 (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.

Missing cast bracket

Flynn Gray's name in the article’s opening is missing a bracket; please add it. S1r Gawa1n 2004 (talk) 21:39, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Fixed — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥 ^{(discuss · contribs)} 21:49, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much! S1r Gawa1n 2004 (talk) 21:52, 13 May 2026 (UTC)