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Requested move 22 November 2024

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 20:21, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Self-cannibalism → Autocannibalism – The new title would make a lot more sense, is somewhat more scientific sounding, and is also used on the article List of autocannibalism incidents. Gaismagorm (talk) 19:36, 22 November 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Frost 13:01, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support - while I don't think that making "more sense" is the best rationale for a move request, the ngrams appear to support this. [1] estar8806 (talk) ★ 01:43, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Estar8806 are you aware that ngrams are case sensitive? The corrected ngram shows self-cannibalism is marginally more used. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 22:09, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support. While I'm not totally sure about the n-grams argument (it seems that "self-cannibalism" is, for whatever reasons, just not found?), the suggested title better fits the related List of autocannibalism incidents article. Gawaon (talk) 18:00, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I have no clear opinion – it seems inconclusive. Here's ngrams, including the less common "auto-cannibalism" (which I would count together with "autocannibalism"): [2]. On Google Scholar search I get "About 1,620 results" for "self-cannibalism" (with quotes), compared to 1,040 for "autocannibalism" and 580 for "auto-cannibalism". Adumbrativus (talk) 00:36, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, that is a good point actually. Perhaps a moving of List of autocannibalism incidents might make more sense. @Adumbrativus what do you think? Gaismagorm (talk) 02:42, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, from the n-grams it's notable that that various spellings of "autocannibalism" considered together are still more popular than "self-cannibalism". Moreover, the latter overtook "autocannibalism" (without variants) only in 2018, long after this article was created. I suppose that, since this article exists, many people will simply have used the term they found in Wikipedia, so it might be best to disregard any n-grams since 2006. In the academic literature (Google Scholar), both terms seem equally popular, and the word "autocannibalism" is used in Shirley Lindenbaum's article "Thinking About Cannibalism", which I consider an excellent summary of the field. Hence I think it makes more sense to rename this article than to rename the list. Gawaon (talk) 11:50, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. We definitely should rename the article rather than the list. Thanks for pointing that out! Gaismagorm (talk) 14:45, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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