Talk:Giant Swing

Proposed move to Sao Chingcha

I'd like to propose that this article be moved to Sao Chingcha for the following reasons:

1. The name “Sao” “Chingcha” is used in the Tourism Authority of Thailand's website.
2. Whilst people searching for “Giant Swing” on Google much more often than “Sao Chingcha” or “Sao Ching Cha” according to Google Trends, searching for “Giant Swing” on Duckduckgo would bring up search results unrelated to the Sao Chingcha.
3. Even though a lot of website uses the term “Giant Swing”, they're often accompanied by the term “Sao Chingcha” or “Sao Ching Cha”

I'm aware that such page move would be quite a violation of WP:TRANSLITERATE thus I'd like to bring this to the talk page first.

🐲 Jo the fire dragon 🐉(talk|contributions) 11:57, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia's guidelines are pretty clear. We should follow the name most commonly used by English-language reliable sources, other factors notwithstanding. (What users tend to search for isn't quite relevant.) And "Giant Swing" is much, much more common. --Paul_012 (talk) 17:23, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

I see. I suppose I don't have to care about other places that are also named “Giant Swing”. Thank you very much for your response. Jothefiredragon🐲talk🐉edits 10:13, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

We'll begin to care when there are other giant swing articles created on Wikipedia. Then hatnotes will probably be needed to point readers to the correct article. If there are many, a dismabiguation page may be needed. See WP:Disambiguation for details. --Paul_012 (talk) 11:04, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

I have seen a lot of WP:Disambiguation pages, but I didn't know that such text are called WP:hatnotes!. Again, thank you very much :) Jothefiredragon🐲talk🐉edits 05:49, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Proposed move to Sao Chingcha (2025)

The arguments I have this time (in addition to the last discussion) are

1. The bus stop nearby Sao Chingcha is named "Sao Chingcha" in both BMTA's website and Viabus application.

1. The article currently have merely 3 English-language sources. And only one of them directly contains either "Giant Swing" or "Sao Chingcha" (which it features both terms)
2. Signs in Sam Yot MRT Station primarily refers to this structure as "Sao Chingcha"

To be absolutely fair, I have some counter-reason as well:

1. The plaque with English text at the very structure itself only uses the term "Giant Swing".

Personally I think that renaming this article to Sao Chingcha would disambiguate it from operational swings (like in Sentosa, Lotte World etc. ; Put "Giant Swing" into YouTube search box and look at the results). Jothefiredragon🐲talk🐉edits 20:23, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move 26 February 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: not moved. – robertsky (talk) 16:49, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

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Giant Swing → Sao Chingcha –

Original rationale: I initially wanted to move this page to “Sao Chingcha” (or “Sao Ching Cha”), for the following reasons.

1. Used in the Tourism Authority of Thailand's website.
2. The bus stop near the structure is named “Sao Chingcha” in both BMTA's website and Viabus application. Note that this is so far the only bus stop in Bangkok with different name than the English Wikipedia article that I can think of (None call Wongwian Yai as big roundabout, Victory Monument as Anusawari Chai Samoraphum or Democracy Monument as Anusawari Prachathipatai
3. Signs in Sam Yot MRT Station primarily refers to this structure as “Sao Chingcha”.
4. The name “Giant Swing” can be ambiguous with other places, most of which are actual functional swings.
5. The term “Giant Swing” is often accompanied by the term “Sao Chingcha” anyway.

However, I also found many arguments against moving the page to “Sao Chingcha”:

1. It'd violate WP:TRANSLITERATE
2. It'd also violate WP:COMMONNAME as variations of “Giant Swing (Bangkok)” yield way more search results on Google than “Sao Chingcha”.

So alternately I came up with a new idea, move the page to Giant Swing (Bangkok) instead. Then the Giant Swing redirect would point to Professional wrestling throws § Giant swing instead. For ONE reason:

1. If for some reason something new showed up and become WP:Primarytopic of Giant Swing, there would be no need to change the links within Wikipedia to this article as those links had already been updated to Giant Swing (Bangkok).

Last but not least I would also like to comment that I don't have any objections if other people would prefer moving to either “Sao Chingcha” (or “Sao Ching Cha”) instead.

References

Update 17 March 2025: As I found out that a songthaew project uses “Sao Ching Cha” I think that Sao Chingcha may have more weight over Giant Swing (Bangkok) Jothefiredragon🐲talk🐉edits 05:10, 26 February 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Bensci54 (talk) 16:47, 12 March 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 00:00, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: Giant Swing capitalised shouldn't redirect to the wrestling move, though lower-case giant swing maybe could, per WP:DIFFCAPS. If we're going to disambiguate the title, though, it would make sense to see if there are other articles that might actually need disambiguating. I've gone ahead and created giant swing as a disambiguation page, which should address the primary topic issue for lower-case giant swing. I still haven't found other uses of upper-case Giant Swing as a proper noun with coverage on Wikipedia, so I'm not inclined to support the move, though I'll keep my position neutral for now. --Paul_012 (talk) 09:08, 26 February 2025 (UTC), 09:17, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Southeast Asia and Hinduism-related topics notice board have been notified of this discussion. Sophisticatedevening ^(talk) 14:34, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

One upper-case Giant Swing that I've found is this ride in Sentosa. (The official website capitalize the name of the ride as "Sentosa Giant Swing") It barely got any mentions on Wikipedia though: Sentosa § Operating attractions.

When searching for "Giant Swing" on Youtube, sorted by view count, the Sentosa Giant Swing appeared as the 32nd result. Unfortunately our beloved Sao Chingcha would only showed up as 150th result. Jothefiredragon🐲talk🐉edits 04:08, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

• Support, and retarget Giant Swing to the dabpage Giant swing. 162 etc. (talk) 22:27, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Move to Giant Swing (Bangkok), per the original proposal. 162 etc. (talk) 16:25, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose. Giant Swing is unambiguous and recognisable and the DAB at giant swing is validly distinguished from it by a small detail. Nothing to fix. Andrewa (talk) 06:00, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

  What's the criteria for being "unambiguous"? I have stated before that many other places outside Thailand are also called Giant Swing. 🐲Jothefiredragon🔥talk🧨contributions✨log🐉 04:10, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

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A revisit to the title of this article and Sao Chingcha subdistrict

Note: unless specified otherwise, GS in this context refers to the Giant Swing as the topic of this article.

I have dig into the title of this article more after last RM and I found these:

1. According to the Google Books Ngram Viewer “Sao Chingcha” dosen't yield any results at all but “Sao Ching Cha” yielded only one result. Variant capitalization of “Giant Swing” does yield more results but I have no way to check if it's actually about GS or something else. So, if we're to move this article to Sao Ching Cha, we might also need to move Sao Chingcha subdistrict to Sao Ching Cha subdistrict.
2. Searching for literal “Giant Swing” on YouTube yield the most viewed video on GS as 52nd result which is this video. Interestingly, a video with more views than the aforementioned video doesn't show up in the result even though its name contains literal “Giant Swing”.
3. Bangkok Metropolitan Administration commissioned 4 font files as Corporate Identity: “BKK Draft5 Regular” “Sao Chingcha Bold” “Sao Chingcha Light” “Sao Chingcha Regular”.

Aside from above statements I also found this policy (WP:NATURAL) which, to me, leans towards either Sao Chingcha or Sao Ching Cha: Using an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English reliable sources, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title, is sometimes preferred. However, do not use obscure or made-up names. - as article title.

So what I think we have now are four potential names for this article:

1. Giant Swing (Article remains un-moved per WP:SMALLDETAILS)
2. Giant Swing (Bangkok)
3. Sao Chingcha
4. Sao Ching Cha

And two possible names for Sao Chingcha subdistrict (either un-moved or Sao Ching Cha subdistrict)

Lastly, some thoughts. Yesterday I've been thinking about the previous RM and an idea popped up: While I've been digging things up at great length to avoid potential WP:NWFCTM. (As a person in Thailand would think of GS first when be told of Giant Swing), what if I just think of the perspective of GS as not being “worthy” for the name “Giant Swing”? I mean, for the duration of the last RM, that's what I thought. But what if GS is in fact, always has been “worthy” of the name Giant Swing. (Which is a great thing as it's a much more memorable name than “Sao Chingcha”/“Sao Ching Cha” to an average English speaker.) This is why I didn't create this topic as another move request. As my main desire is to list out every potential reasons I could find that supports a move. And getting either:

1. Response giving reassurance that GS is indeed worthy for the name “Giant Swing”.
2. Response giving agreement over some of the things I've listed out either here or in the last RM which leads to the article(s) actually being moved.

As the last RM gave me both of these two and they cancelled out. I'm making this topic to raise the question once again if this article and Sao Chingcha subdistrict would actually be moved. As for me, I personally am too indecisive to say anything. 🐲Jothefiredragon🔥talk🧨contributions✨log🐉 10:45, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I asked people outside Thailand to search for “Giant Swing” on Google Maps. One of them responded to me saying that “Giant Swing” indeed showed up as the first result to him even though he's not in Thailand. However, most others reported otherwise.

My conclusion so far would be that the name Giant Swing is a fait accompli. In the sense that even though I might not like this name that much, other people already chose this name and it's unlikely to change. (Thank you to @Novem Linguae's comment at Talk:Trump's_Liberation_Day_tariffs#Requested_move_14_April_2025 for teaching me about this interesting phrase!)

Btw, anyone know how to contact Bangkok Mass Transit Authority, to rename the bus stop from Sao Chingcha to Giant Swing?

🐲Jothefiredragon🔥talk🧨contributions✨log🐉 12:26, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Notes

References

June 2025

A few days ago I updated the Thai Smile Bus application on my phone then I found out that it has English language option. So I looked up as to what Sao Chingcha bus stop is labeled in the app. (Using the term “Sao Chingcha” here as it's the name of the bus stop on Google Maps and Viabus) It was simply “Giant Swing”.

After that I tried looking up what “เสาชิงช้า” translate to on Google Translate, it also was “Giant Swing”. I've also tried some LLM; ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot; they all called it “Giant Swing”.

So yeah, it does seem to be that “Sao Chingcha” signs are the ones that should be changed to “Giant Swing”, not the other way around. Although in practice this place is probably going to be commonly named as both “Giant Swing” and “Sao Chingcha” for a long time. 🐲Jothefiredragon🔥talk🧨contributions✨log🐉 10:31, 24 June 2025 (UTC)