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Tenet was nominated as a Media and drama good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (March 7, 2022). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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This article has been viewed enough times in a single year to make it into the Top 50 Report annual list. This happened in 2020, when it received 13,948,713 views.

This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report 11 times. The weeks in which this happened:

On 2 January 2026, it was proposed that this article be moved from Tenet (film) to Tenet. The result of the discussion was moved.

The probable origin of the name is worth a passing mention?

Tenet is a slavic word, present in Ukrainian and some other languages, it can be translated as a net or a web, or a spiderweb. Often used in phrases about getting tangled, like. "He got tangled in their web". Yehoria (talk) 23:08, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See sator square for the likely inspiration of 'Tenet'. Aszx5000 (talk) 19:37, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wiktionary wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ten- has links to wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/tenēō, wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/teneto. Don’t think there’s a place to say it, but it’s somehow related Sqicc (talk) 01:46, 29 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Can also say no one knows what “Arepo” means Sqicc (talk) 01:49, 29 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Note added to Palindromes anadromes analysis section Sqicc (talk) 03:53, 29 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Do not think Maxwell's demon is referenced in the film?

The ending of the article currently lists Maxwell's demon as a concept that is referenced in the film. I don't remember this reference, and can't find any source for this having tried to look it up. I think Maxwell's demon should probably be removed from this sentence? Tobycrisford (talk) 06:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maxwell's demon is at the heart of Tenet - the theoretical foundations of how entropy could be reversed. The "blue" and "red" are from his experiment, and it is drawn on the whiteboard of the lab in which The Protagonist is first shown the inverted bullets. See more here. Aszx5000 (talk) 19:46, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 2 January 2026

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. Given the fact that this has no opposition, very clear analytics to back it up, and that this RM likely could have been a WP:BOLD move, I am going to close this a day early as both a WP:SNOW closure and a WP:BOLD move. (closed by non-admin page mover) – LuniZunie_(talk) 14:14, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Tenet (film) → Tenet
Tenet → Tenet (disambiguation)

– I am requesting that the article on the 2020 Christopher Nolan film be moved to become the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of the term "Tenet", per the pageviews count. A quick web search took me until the 12th or 13th page to find any article not about the film, which were mainly discussing "Tenet Solutions", "Tenet Healthcare", and "Tenet Media", all of which are sufficiently disambiguated names. There are also entries for TENET (network), Tenet (band), and Tenet (ensemble), although none of their pageviews remotely meet the average view count for this film article or the DAB page, which has an unusually exorbinate viewcount, presumably for readers looking for an article on the film directly. For those who may inquire about the term "TENET" potentially holding more weight, there is precedent in another Nolan film, Inception, being the primary over the term "inception", which is complemented by its own DAB page, Inception (disambiguation). A hatnote at the film article pointing to the DAB, where the "TENET" inscription in the Sator Square is listed, should suffice for readers looking for the other targets. — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥^{(discuss · contribs)} 03:01, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Film/American cinema task force, WikiProject Science Fiction, WikiProject Film/British cinema task force, and WikiProject Film have been notified of this discussion. — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥^{(discuss · contribs)} 03:02, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom, I honestly think this is uncontroversial enough to have been moved BOLDly already. Thanks, Glasspalace (talk • contribs) 07:19, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I have been considering this move for some time, but I wanted to get community input to ensure my interpretation was accurate. — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥^{(discuss · contribs)} 02:48, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough. No rush. Thanks, Glasspalace (talk • contribs) 03:15, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support since "tenet" by itself is just a dictionary definition and does not have an encyclopedic scope for its core meaning, compared to other terms. The film under this title appears to be the primary topic, like Inception was. Erik (talk | contrib) 15:59, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. It easily satisfies WP:PT1 as well as most conditions listed under WP:DPT. --GoneIn60 (talk) 16:35, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nomination. The film article overwhelmingly has the primary topic by usage. Between 2020 and September 2021, which is 1 year after the film was released in theaters, the film held 98.7% of pageviews. The average pageview for films typically settles down 1-2 years after its theatrical release. That was true in the case of Tenet, with pageviews settling in September 2021. Total pageviews post-peak (September 2021–November 2025) are showing 98.6% for the film, though this includes 1 peak when Nolan's Oppenheimer was released. Though, as linked in the nomination, between December 2024 and November 2025 the film still held 98.5% of pageviews. Wikinav is also showing 92% of outgoing traffic on the dab page going to the film. And that dab page is the second most viewed topic for the term "Tenet". So nearly 100% of traffic is going to the film article, which has maintained this even 5 years after the film was released. A primary topic is one which is highly likely to be the topic sought when a reader searches for this term, and the others not. It is evident from the aforementioned data that the film is and has long been the primary topic. Οἶδα (talk) 22:36, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Guz13 (talk) 02:45, 3 January 2026 (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.