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The result of the move request was: Second is moved, first is no-consensus. So putting a disambiguation page at the base name for the time being. This will also allow incoming links to be sorted out by the disambiguation team. Going forward, discussions can be held regarding the possible merge that SMcC mentions below, and there is no prejudice against a further RM to propose the first move again, with fresh evidence, once the dust has settled. — Amakuru (talk) 13:50, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
– WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and perhaps WP:Common sense. The "film" is just a mash-up of clips from the TV series, rather like the Battlestar Galacitica movie that was made up of scenes from the first season of that [original] TV series. Honestly, just merging the film into the TV series article, at The Hexer, as a section would also be an appropriate possibility. While before the current The Witcher TV series on Netflix, the film might maybe have had a primary-topic claim, in that various English-language movie sites mentioned the film more often than non-Polish sites talked about the full TV series, today there's more material out there about the original TV series, including in-depth comparisons of The Hexer to Netflix's The Witcher, and they generally agree the film isn't worth watching or covering in any detail, since it's just a poor edit of the original series. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 11:20, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
The only thing approaching a counter-example I can think of would be if we had separate articles on the complete ten-volume edition and the abridged one-volume summary of The Golden Bough. The single-volume abridgement can probably be found in any good bookstore, and is frequently read by college students and such, while the complete version is out-of-print, costs around US$300–400 on the used market, was mostly only ever bought by libraries, and has in its exceedingly obtuse and rambling entirely has only been read by a few academics. Regardless, we still just have a single article. (And it might be permissible not to, per Das Kapital versus Das Kapital, Volume I, etc. – we can have multiple articles on a huge work when encyclopedically warranted. Das Kapital isn't a parallel case, though, since we're spinning out articles by volume not by complete versus summarized version; it's more like spun-out season and episode articles for a TV series).
The Battlestar Galactica case is more parallel in all ways, except in not being a problem for WP titling because the BG "film" has non-ambiguous alternative titles for us to use (including the original "Saga of a Star World", which we chose, and various marketing titles like Battlestar Galactica: The Movie, and Battlestar Galactica: The Motion Picture). However – and this seems contextually quite important – we are treating it primarily as an episode (or three-episode serial, depending on release format/market) of the first season, not primarily as an independent film. That is, even as a notable stand-alone topic that can support having its own separate article, the TV series still remains the primary topic. The similarities seem too close to ignore: in both the BG case and The Hexer case, the "film" was released in advance of the full series in an attempt to generate buzz and to quickly recoup some of the series development costs. The only real difference seems to be that the theatrical The Hexer drew from more than 1–3 episodes of its parent series, and that seems to be a meaningless distinction.
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 12:30, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
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