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: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (Goodbye!) 05:48, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Backrooms → BackroomsBackrooms – There isn't any other article named "Backrooms", and WP:DEFINITE is quite clear. It is definitely the primary topic over the web series and film of the same name. The only reason to have the redirect is if the song or album is equally important, although for the album "Back Room" and "Backroom" could still be a redirect. Aspets (talk) 18:00, 24 July 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 20:58, 31 July 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath^talk 04:58, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Horror, WikiProject Internet culture, WikiProject Culture, WikiProject Popular culture, INACTIVEWP, and WikiProject Folklore have been notified of this discussion. Векочел (talk) 07:39, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rename – WP:DEFINITE says "Do not place definite or indefinite articles (the, a, and an) at the beginning of titles unless they are part of a proper name" so the question is whether the name of the backrooms is "Backrooms" or "The Backrooms". Sources cited in the article seem to be split between using "Backrooms" and "The Backrooms" as their name. I don't agree that WP:DEFINITE prohibits "The" in this situation. However I do agree with the renaming because short names are good, simple names are probably easier to link without piping, and there are plenty of precedents for "Backrooms" being used as their name. --Northernhenge (talk) 15:22, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support: The article itself refers to the location as "the Backrooms". Also, defaulting to omitting "The" from titles is usually a good idea. (example being the header at the top of this page) Yerlo (talk) 19:24, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose "The" is usually prepended to the name when said as a proper name, so this does not fall under WP:THE as a case for removal. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:14, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename to Backrooms (fictional location) and redirect Backrooms to Back room as clear primary redirect. Often spelt this way. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:56, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Where do I even begin with how bad of a DAB page back room is? Wikipedia is not a search index. That page should be moved to Backrooms (disambiguation) and Backrooms primary redirected here, with the non disambiguations purged completely. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 05:42, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Dab pages are useful when the same term (backroom / back room / backrooms etc.) is used in different ways in different contexts. In that sense, they are one of Wikipedia’s search tools. Unlike a free-text search, they won't help you find articles that just happen to use those two words together, so dab pages are more help when you know that the term really is used in the context you are interested in, and you want to find the right page. There has to be a limit – it's not a word-association game – but the back room dab page currently stays well within that limit. Other possible entries could include Backstage (theatre) and Storage room but that’s not today's discussion. --Northernhenge (talk) 10:35, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Forgot to mention that I've added subheadings to the dab page to make the different contexts more obvious. That, of course, is straying into cataloguing, which is another way that dab pages can contribute to Wikipedia's overall search infrastructure. --Northernhenge (talk) 10:40, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose "The" is part of the name. Skyshiftertalk 14:04, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As a fan of The Backrooms, I will tell you now that it is most commonly known as “The Backrooms” collectively and not just “Backrooms”. If you look around online you will see most references use “the” before it including the original 4chan post. There are some use cases such as Kane Parson’s web series where he just uses “Backrooms” but for the most part we refer to it as “The Backrooms”.

Why not just have a page that is “Backrooms” redirect to “The Backrooms”. That way anyone searching for the name without “the” will still be directed to the correct page. 2001:4479:5A03:3E00:34FF:8AC2:75CE:D8C0 (talk) 12:12, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Because backroom (with or without a space and/or an s) is too similar to "back room", which has a number of meanings. That leads me to oppose the move as it makes it slightly clearer that this is a specific subculture use of the term, not a general reference to a backroom. --Northernhenge (talk) 23:10, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]