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This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination. Discussions: Not moved, 10 February 2023, to Haunted house (attraction), see discussion. Moved, 1 July 2025, from Haunted attraction (simulated) to Haunted attraction, see discussion.

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Requested move 1 July 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 to Haunted attraction. (closed by non-admin page mover) Frost 09:49, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Haunted attraction (simulated) → Haunted house attractionHaunted house attraction – Per WP:NATURAL. While there are other types that aren't merely houses, it's still referred to in general as a "haunted house". ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:25, 1 July 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Bensci54 (talk) 16:56, 8 July 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath^talk 02:04, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Haunted house attraction does redirect here, but I don't see how it's any less ambiguous than Haunted attraction (a disambiguation page listing this article and Haunted house). jlwoodwa (talk) 16:53, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, Haunted attraction is at least as clear and is more natural, certainly more concise. Wikinav won't work for Haunted attraction so I'm not sure where most readers navigate from there. My sense is that haunted house is the main term people use for both the "real" ones and the "attractions" but that when specifying haunted attraction it almost always means the subject of this article, although obviously some purportedly haunted locations become "attractions". --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 00:35, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support, but maybe put the attraction in brackets e.g. haunted house (attraction). Sushidude21! (talk) 10:10, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Haunted attraction as alternative, and move Haunted attraction → Haunted attraction (disambiguation) or just use hatnotes since there are only two items listed. Ngram shows haunted attraction is more commonly used and looking the first couple pages of Google Books results it usually refers to the type of tourist/live entertainment attraction described in the article. Where it refers to "real" haunted locations it is usually describes their status as a tourist attraction (though not always with the live entertainment aspect). For example, here a distinction is made between a purportedly haunted house and the "haunted attraction" that is hosted there every Halloween. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 17:43, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I still prefer Haunted attraction but would support the nominator's proposal Haunted house attraction as second choice. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 00:06, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support per nom. No opinion on move to Haunted house attraction vs. Haunted attraction. If not the title, the other should redirect to Haunted attraction (simulated) per Myceteae; no need for Haunted attraction (disambiguation) given WP:ONEOTHER. Wracking ^talk! 00:49, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Amusement Parks, WikiProject Horror, and WikiProject Holidays/Halloween task force have been notified of this discussion. TarnishedPath^talk 02:04, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support move to Haunted attraction and add hatnote for haunted house – For reference, this 2014 discussion is how the current titling of the article happened. There wasn't much participation, and the primary argument was that outside of the US, the term "haunted attraction" can mean real and not simulated, in the context that it may be a real haunted site marketed as a tourist attraction. I am unconvinced that enough evidence has been presented to show that "haunted attraction" is more common that say "haunted site", "haunted area", or even "haunted house". Furthermore, there's no reason we can simply use a hatnote at this article to mention the other possibility per WP:ONEOTHER; a DAB page is not needed here. --GoneIn60 (talk) 12:08, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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.