Wikipedia:Requested moves
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Requested moves is a process for requesting the retitling (moving) of an article, template, or project page on Wikipedia. For retitling files, categories and other items, see When not to use this page.
Please read the article titling policy and the guideline regarding primary topics before moving a page or requesting a page move.
Any autoconfirmed user can use the Move function to perform most moves (see Help:How to move a page). If you have no reason to expect a dispute concerning a move, be bold and move the page. However, it may not always be possible or desirable to do this:
- Technical reasons may prevent a move; for example, a page may already exist at the target title and require deletion, or the page may be protected from moves. See: § Requesting technical moves.
- Requests to revert recent, undiscussed, controversial moves may be made at WP:RM/TR. If the new name has not become the stable title, the undiscussed move will be reverted. If the new name has become the stable title, a requested move will be needed to determine the article's proper location.
- A title may be disputed, and discussion may be necessary to reach consensus: see § Requesting controversial and potentially controversial moves. The requested moves process is not mandatory, and sometimes an informal discussion at the article's talk page can help reach consensus.
- A page should not be moved and a new move discussion should not be opened when there is already an open move request on a talk page. Instead, please participate in the open discussion.
- Unregistered and new (not yet autoconfirmed) users are unable to move pages.
Requests are generally processed after seven days. If consensus to move the page is reached at or after this time, a reviewer will carry out the request. If there is a consensus not to move the page, the request will be closed as "not moved". When consensus remains unclear, the request may be relisted to allow more time for consensus to develop, or the discussion may be closed as "no consensus". See Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions for more details on the process.
Wikipedia:Move review can be used to contest the outcome of a move request as long as all steps are followed. If a discussion on the closer's talk page does not resolve an issue, then a move review will evaluate the close of the move discussion to determine whether or not the contested close was reasonable and consistent with the spirit and intent of common practice, policies, and guidelines.
When not to use this page
Separate processes exist for moving certain types of pages, and for changes other than page moves:
- Making an uncontroversial move – if you can, be bold and do it yourself! If you can't, see § Requesting technical moves.
- Renaming a category – propose the move at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
- Renaming a stub template – propose the move at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
- Renaming an image or other file – see Wikipedia:Moving a page § Moving a file page.
- Moves from draft namespace or user space to article space – Unconfirmed users: add
{{subst:submit}}
to the top of the article. See Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Confirmed users: Move the page yourself. - Merging two articles – make a request at Wikipedia:Proposed mergers, or be bold and do it yourself.
- Splitting an article – make a request at Wikipedia:Proposed article splits, or be bold and do it yourself.
- Requesting that page histories be merged – list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge.
- Contesting a move request close – use the Wikipedia:Move review process.
Undiscussed moves
Autoconfirmed editors may move a page without discussion if all of the following apply:
- No article exists at the new target title;
- There has been no previous discussion about the title of the page that expressed any objection to a new title; and
- It seems unlikely that anyone would reasonably disagree with the move.
If you disagree with a prior bold move, and the new title has not been in place for a long time, you may revert the move yourself. If you cannot revert the move for technical reasons, then you may request a technical move.
Move wars are disruptive, so if you make a bold move and it is reverted, do not make the move again. Instead, follow the procedures laid out in § Requesting controversial and potentially controversial moves.
If you are unable to complete a move for technical reasons, you can request technical help below. This is the correct method if you tried to move a page, but you got an error message saying something like "You do not have permission to move this page, for the following reasons:..." or "The/This page could not be moved, for the following reason:..."
If you are here because you want an admin to approve of your new article or your proposed page move, you are in the wrong place.
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- To list a technical request: Uncontroversial technical requests subsection and insert the following code at the bottom of the list, filling in pages and reason:
This will automatically insert a bullet and include your signature. Please do not edit the article's talk page.{{subst:RMassist|current page title|new title|reason=edit summary for the move}}
the - If you object to a proposal listed in the uncontroversial technical requests section, please move the request to the Contested technical requests section, append a note on the request elaborating on why, and sign with ~~~~. Consider pinging the requester to let them know about the objection.
- If your technical request is contested, or if a contested request is left untouched without reply, create a requested move on the article talk and remove the request from the section here. The fastest and easiest way is to click the "discuss" button at the request, save the talk page, and remove the entry on this page.
Technical requests
Uncontroversial technical requests
- LRT Line 1 (Manila) → LRT Line 1 (Metro Manila) (currently a redirect back to LRT Line 1 (Manila)) (move · discuss) – Original article title was a result of a previous RM that had a very long discussion, and should ideally be moved via another RM. The current article name was also one of the rejected options in the RM. Current article was nefariously moved twice to avoid reversion back to original title. Howard the Duck (talk) 21:28, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- LRT Line 2 (Manila) → LRT Line 2 (Metro Manila) (currently a redirect back to LRT Line 2 (Manila)) (move · discuss) – Original article title was a result of a previous RM that had a very long discussion, and should ideally be moved via another RM. The current article name was also one of the rejected options in the RM. Current article was nefariously moved twice to avoid reversion back to original title. Howard the Duck (talk) 21:28, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- User:Jussie2024 also had moved several metro articles I suspect there's something else going on. Howard the Duck (talk) 21:29, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Indie game → Indie video game (currently a redirect back to Indie game) (move · discuss) – "Indie game" should instead be a disambiguation page, linking to these 3 articles: "Indie video game" (with the content of the current page "Indie game"), "Indie role-playing game", and "Indie Game: The Movie". I can't move it myself because "Indie video game" already exists as a redirect page to "Indie game". Nodicenomasters (talk) 21:50, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Untitled Alice in Wonderland film → Alice & the Mad Hatter (move · discuss) – The movie title was finally revealed. {{{sig}}}
Requests to revert undiscussed moves
Contested technical requests
- Special Forces Tab → Special Forces tab (currently a redirect back to Special Forces Tab) (move · discuss) – Parallel to Ranger tab and consistent with Army's own AR 670-1 document about insignia (and basic English/WP MoS), "tab" should be lowercase. I can't do the move myself because there's a redirect in the way (they should be swapped). — JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 19:52, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- I wonder if Ranger tab should be moved instead so both words are capitalized in that title, because both of these military awards appear to be proper terms in which title case should be used. Also, both articles are currently written as if that is the case, with the title at the top of the Ranger tab article being the only exception. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 20:05, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for looking at this, Doomsdayer. When I first stumbled across this, I was irritiated by the "Tab" on these things, as it seemed another case of overcapitalization, but I looked around to see if it wasn't exactly that: a special, proper noun. Tabs of the United States Army used (already, before I started standardising the texts) a mixture. There was some inconclusive mention on the Talk of that article, but otherwise, I haven't found any discussion, just a bit of sloppiness.
- For me, the deciding factor (apart from my understanding of English rules) was the use by the Army itself in the Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia document I linked to. I figure, if anybody can be expected to inappropriately overcapitalize words, it'd be the US military, but they consistently downcase not just "the tab" but "the airborne tab", e.g., at p.2 (even "airborne" is lowercase there). Also I find at [1] ("...awarded the Governor's Dozen tab...") and [2] (PDF's p.11, 4th-last paragraph "arctic tab").
- Unfortunately, I've already gone ahead and made changes to article text as well as redirects (where I could) so as to unify the mix of usages contrary to Army/military usage. I didn't mean to throw a WP:FAIT situation at you, so I've stopped to see what you decide. If you think these changes might, in fact, be controversial, I can open up discussions on the (I think) four pages I've tweaked. If folks don't like what I've done, I'll go around with my reverting hat on (I mean my Reverting Hat). — JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 21:06, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- If various articles in this area are sloppy and inconsistent in capitalization, then we absolutely need you to clean everything up. Your efforts are appreciated. If anyone familiar with these precise military terms pops up here, we may be able to nail down whether these terms should all be in Title Case or Sentence case. Whatever the ultimate verdict, reverting some of your recent edits and moving some remaining page titles shouldn't be too difficult. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 12:49, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
- @JohnFromPinckney Sounds like more expert input is needed here. Perhaps a post on WT:MILHIST would help. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 23:48, 21 September 2024 (UTC)- Per source stats, capping "tab" is clearly not necessary. We should fix them all. Dicklyon (talk) 02:47, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Dicklyon I'm not reading it as cut-and-dry enough for a technical request. In your link, in 2009, "Tab" outnumbered "tab" 4:1. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:15, 23 September 2024 (UTC)- Sure, worth a discussion. Dicklyon (talk) 04:55, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Dicklyon I'm not reading it as cut-and-dry enough for a technical request. In your link, in 2009, "Tab" outnumbered "tab" 4:1. --Ahecht (TALK
- Thanks for not archiving this while I've been away, and thanks, Ahecht, for your suggestion. I have started something (long and possibly overly detailed) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Capitalization of "tab" and "badge". I'll try to stay active while any MILHISTers are engaging. — JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 11:21, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- Per source stats, capping "tab" is clearly not necessary. We should fix them all. Dicklyon (talk) 02:47, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- I wonder if Ranger tab should be moved instead so both words are capitalized in that title, because both of these military awards appear to be proper terms in which title case should be used. Also, both articles are currently written as if that is the case, with the title at the top of the Ranger tab article being the only exception. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 20:05, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Tanda thermal power plant → Tanda Thermal Power Plant (currently a redirect back to Tanda thermal power plant) (move) – Capitalisation only Thewikizoomer (talk) 17:54, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Thewikizoomer Wait for the current merge proposal to be resolved first. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:29, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Thewikizoomer Wait for the current merge proposal to be resolved first. --Ahecht (TALK
- Ojuelegba, Lagos → Ojuelegba (move · discuss) – I'm requesting this article to be renamed because there isn't another place with the name "Ojuelegba". Ojuelegba is the primary topic and there's no need for Lagos to be included in the title. Versace1608 Wanna Talk? 15:06, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Versace1608 Both the suburb and the song get around 1000 pageviews per month, it's not clear which is the primary topic. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:29, 25 September 2024 (UTC)- If we're keeping the dabpage, then it will need to be moved back to Ojuelegba. OP, such primary topic grabs are, by definition, not uncontroversial. 162 etc. (talk) 17:18, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- @162 etc. I moved the dabpage back pending consensus on a primary topic. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:28, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- @162 etc. I moved the dabpage back pending consensus on a primary topic. --Ahecht (TALK
- If we're keeping the dabpage, then it will need to be moved back to Ojuelegba. OP, such primary topic grabs are, by definition, not uncontroversial. 162 etc. (talk) 17:18, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Versace1608 Both the suburb and the song get around 1000 pageviews per month, it's not clear which is the primary topic. --Ahecht (TALK
- Polynesian Mythology (book) → Polynesian Mythology (currently a redirect instead to Polynesian mythology) (move · discuss) – Remove disambiguator that is unnecessary per WP:DIFFCAPS. Nurg (talk) 09:32, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Nurg I don't think the "distinct" part of WP:DIFFCAPS is met here, and Polynesian mythology is probably still the primary topic for the title-case title. Worth a discussion at least. C F A 💬 15:00, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- I also oppose this. 162 etc. (talk) 20:58, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Nurg I don't think the "distinct" part of WP:DIFFCAPS is met here, and Polynesian mythology is probably still the primary topic for the title-case title. Worth a discussion at least. C F A 💬 15:00, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- Georgia Academy of Arts, Mathematics, Engineering and Science → The Georgia Academy (move · discuss) – The Georgia Academy is the new official name for Georgia Academy of Arts, Mathematics, Engineering and Science. The latter name is no longer used following Middle Georiga State University policy 6.7. For further confirmation, contact the <a href="https://www.mga.edu/legal-affairs/index.php">university counsel</a> MGAMarCommRanha (talk) 13:45, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Decapod → Decapod (disambiguation) (currently a redirect back to Decapod) (move · discuss) – 'Decapod (disambiguation)' was created for the express purpose of redirecting to 'Decapod'. However, 'Decapod' clearly has a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. 'Decapod' is the common name for the order Decapoda that houses all crabs, all shrimp, all prawns, all lobsters, and all crayfish. There are thousands of articles that fall under Decapoda and whose subjects can be called decapods. I've seen at this point several dozen wikilinks formatted as [[Decapoda|decapod]] because we direct to a disambig instead of a PT. At the bare minimum, even if a PT somehow isn't established, 'Decapod' would point to 'Decapod (disambiguation)', not vice-versa. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 08:16, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- @TheTechnician27 There has been a silent consensus for nearly twenty years, so I don't think this is necessarily uncontroversial. You can open a discussion by clicking the "discuss" link next to your request. C F A 💬 14:48, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Scream 7 → Draft:Scream VII (currently a redirect back to Draft:Scream 7) (move · discuss) – The other films had numerical numbers as the title. KingArti (talk) 17:22, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- @KingArti There's no need to move this now, as the draft approver can move it to the appropriate title when it is moved out of draftspace. That said, the previous films are not consistent: there is Scream 4 and Scream VI. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:25, 1 October 2024 (UTC)- @KingArti Also, the Instagram post that announced the release date used "Scream 7", not "Scream VII". --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:34, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- @KingArti Also, the Instagram post that announced the release date used "Scream 7", not "Scream VII". --Ahecht (TALK
- @KingArti There's no need to move this now, as the draft approver can move it to the appropriate title when it is moved out of draftspace. That said, the previous films are not consistent: there is Scream 4 and Scream VI. --Ahecht (TALK
Administrator needed
- Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies → Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies (move · discuss) – Closed discussion but page is protected Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_LGBT_studies#Requested_move_6_September_2024 Dr vulpes (Talk) 04:54, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- User:Soulbust/iHasCupquake → IHasCupquake (move · discuss) – Page was (speedy?) deleted multiple times in 2015 and the namespace was indefinitely protected. It's been nearly a decade and I've drafted a version which is good to go into the mainspace, but can't move it there because of the protection. Soulbust (talk) 11:11, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax → Springfield pet-eating hoax (move · discuss) – Per consensus at Special:Permalink/1248518496#Requested move 24 September 2024. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 16:12, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
The discussion process is used for potentially controversial moves. A move is potentially controversial if either of the following applies:
- there has been any past debate about the best title for the page;
- someone could reasonably disagree with the move.
Use this process if there is any reason to believe a move would be contested. For technical move requests, such as to correct obvious typographical errors, see Requesting technical moves. The technical moves procedure can also be used for uncontroversial moves when the requested title is occupied by an existing article.
Do not create a new move request when one is already open on the same talk page. Instead, consider contributing to the open discussion if you would like to propose another alternative. Multiple closed move requests may be on the same page, but each should have a unique section heading.
Do not create a move request to rename one or more redirects. Redirects cannot be used as current titles in requested moves.
Requesting a single page move
To request a single page move, click on the "New section" (or "Add topic") tab of the talk page of the article you want moved, without adding a new subject/header, inserting this code:
{{subst:requested move|New name|reason=Place here your rationale for the proposed page name change, ideally referring to applicable naming convention policies and guidelines, and providing evidence in support where appropriate. If your reasoning includes search engine results, please prioritize searches limited to reliable sources (e.g. books, news, scholarly papers) over other web results. You don't need to add your signature at the end, as this template will do so automatically.}}
Replace New name
with the requested new name of the page (or with a simple question mark, if you want more than one possible new name to be considered). The template will automatically create the heading "Requested move 2 October 2024" and sign the post for you.
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Unlike other request processes on Wikipedia, such as Requests for comment, nominations need not be neutral. Make your point as best you can; use evidence (such as Google Ngrams and pageview statistics) and refer to applicable policies and guidelines, especially our article titling policy and the guideline on disambiguation and primary topics.
WikiProjects may subscribe to Article alerts to receive RM notifications. For example, Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Article alerts/Requested moves is transcluded to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography. RMCD bot notifies many of the other Wikiprojects listed on the talk page of the article to be moved to invite project members to participate in the RM discussion. Requesters should feel free to notify any other Wikiproject or noticeboard that might be interested in the move request, as long as this notification is neutral.
Single page move on a different talk page
Occasionally, a move request must be made on a talk page other than the talk page of the page to be moved. For example, a request to rename Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Resources to Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Reviewing and templates would need to take place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation because the talk page of the project page to be moved, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Resources, is a redirect to that centralized discussion page. In this type of case, the requested move should be made using the following code:
{{subst:requested move|reason=(the reason for the page move goes here).|current1=(present title of page to be renamed)|new1=(proposed title of page)}}
The |1=
unnamed parameter is not used. The |current1=
and |new1=
parameters are used similar to multiple page moves described below.
Requesting multiple page moves
A single template may be used to request multiple related moves. On one of the talk pages of the affected pages, create a request and format it as below. A sample request for three page moves is shown here (for two page moves, omit the lines for current3 and new3). For four page moves, add lines for current4 and new4, and so on. There is no technical limit on the number of multiple move requests, but before requesting very large multi-moves, consider whether a naming convention should be changed first. Discuss that change on the talk page for the naming convention, e.g., Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (sportspeople).
To request a multiple page move, edit at the bottom of the talk page of the article you chose for your request, without adding a new header, inserting this code:
{{subst:requested move
| current1 = Current title of page 1 (this parameter can be omitted for discussions hosted on a page that is proposed to be moved)
| new1 = New title for page 1 with the talk page hosting this discussion
| current2 = Current title of page 2
| new2 = New title for page 2
| current3 = Current title of page 3
| new3 = New title for page 3
| reason = Place here your rationale for the proposed page name change, ideally referring to applicable naming convention policies and guidelines, and providing evidence in support where appropriate. If your reasoning includes search engine results, please prioritize searches limited to reliable sources (e.g. books, news, scholarly papers) over other web results. You don't need to add your signature at the end, as this template will do so automatically.
}}
For example, to propose moving the articles Wikipedia
and Wiki
, put this template on Talk:Wikipedia
with current1
set to Wikipedia
and current2
set to Wiki
. The discussion for all affected articles is held on the talk page of the article where the template is placed (Talk:Wikipedia
). Do not sign the request with ~~~~
, since the template does this automatically (so if you sign it yourself there will be two copies of your signature at the end of the request). Do not skip pairs of numbers.
RMCD bot automatically places a notice section on the talk page of all pages that are included in your request except the one hosting the discussion, to call attention to the move discussion that is in progress and to suggest that all discussion for all of the pages included in the request should take place at that one hosting location.
For multi-move discussions hosted on a page which is itself proposed to be moved, it is not necessary to include the |current1=Current title of page 1
for the page hosting the discussion, as its current title can be inferred automatically. Occasionally the discussions for significant multi-move requests may be hosted on WikiProject talk pages or other pages in Project namespace, in which case it is necessary to include |current1=
to indicate the first article to be moved.
Request all associated moves explicitly
Please list every move that you wish to have made in your request. For example, if you wish to move Cricket (disambiguation) to Cricket because you do not believe the sport is the primary topic for the search term "Cricket", then you actually want to move two pages, both Cricket (disambiguation) and Cricket. Thus you must list proposed titles for each page affected by your request. For example, you might propose:
If a new title is not proposed for the sport, it is more difficult to achieve consensus for a new title for that article. A move request that does not show what to do with the material at its proposed target, such as:
is incomplete. Such requests may be completed as a request to decide the best new title by discussion.
- Cricket → ?
If a disambiguation page is in the way of a move, the request may be completed as proposing to add (disambiguation).
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Requested move 2 October 2024
Wikipedia:Requested moves → ? – why Example (talk) 00:41, 2 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
{{subst:Requested move|new|reason=why|talk=yes}} |
Requested move 2 October 2024
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{{subst:Requested move|new1=?|current2=y|new2=?|reason=why}} |
Requested move 2 October 2024
– why Example (talk) 00:41, 2 October 2024 (UTC) |
Commenting on a requested move
All editors are welcome to contribute to the discussion regarding a requested page move. There are a number of standards that Wikipedians should practice in such discussions:
- When editors recommend a course of action, they write Support or Oppose in bold text, which is done by surrounding the word with three single quotes on each side, e.g.
'''Support'''
. - Comments or recommendations are added on a new bulleted line (that is, starting with *) and signed by adding
~~~~
to the end. Responses to another editor are threaded and indented using multiple bullets. - The article itself should be reviewed before any recommendation is made; do not base recommendations solely on the information supplied by other editors. It may also help to look at the article's edit history. However, please read the earlier comments and recommendations, as well as prior move requests. They may contain relevant arguments and useful information.
- Vested interests in the article should be disclosed per Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI.
When participating, please consider the following:
- Editors should make themselves familiar with the article titling policy at Wikipedia:Article titles.
- Other important guidelines that set forth community norms for article titles include Wikipedia:Disambiguation, specific naming conventions, and the manual of style.
- The debate is not a vote; please do not make recommendations that are not sustained by arguments.
- Explain how the proposed article title meets or contravenes policy and guidelines rather than merely stating that it does so.
- Nomination already implies that the nominator supports the name change, and nominators should refrain from repeating this recommendation on a separate bulleted line.[a]
- Do not make conflicting recommendations. If you change your mind, use strike-through to retract your previous statement by enclosing it between <s> and </s> after the bullets, and de-bold the struck words, as in "•
SupportOppose".
Please remember that reasonable editors will sometimes disagree, but that arguments based in policy, guidelines, and evidence have more weight than unsupported statements. When an editor offers an argument that does not explain how the move request is consistent with policies and guidelines, a reminder to engage in constructive, on-topic discussion may be useful. On the other hand, a pattern of responding to requests with groundless opinion, proof by assertion, and ignoring content guidelines may become disruptive. If a pattern of disruptive behavior persists after efforts are made to correct the situation through dialogue, please consider using a dispute resolution process.
Closing a requested move
Any uninvolved editor in good standing may close a move request. Please read the closing instructions for information on how to close a move request. The Simple guide to closing RM discussions details how to actually close a requested move discussion.
Relisting a requested move
Relisting a discussion moves the request out of the backlog up to the current day in order to encourage further input. The decision to relist a discussion is best left to uninvolved experienced editors upon considering, but declining, to close the discussion. In general, discussions should not be relisted more than once before properly closing.[b] Users relisting a debate which has already been relisted, or relisting a debate with a substantial discussion, should write a short explanation on why they did not consider the debate sufficient to close. While there is no consensus forbidding participation in a requested move discussion after relisting it, many editors consider it an inadvisable form of supervote. If you want to relist a discussion and then participate in it, be prepared to explain why you think it was appropriate.
Relisting should be done using {{subst:RM relist}}
, which automatically includes the relister's signature, and which must be placed at the very end of the initial request after the move requester's signature (and subsequent relisters' signatures).
When a relisted discussion reaches a resolution, it may be closed at any time according to the closing instructions; there is no required length of time to wait before closing a relisted discussion.
If discussion has become stale, or it seems that discussion would benefit from more input of editors versed in the subject area, consider more widely publicizing the discussion, such as by notifying WikiProjects of the discussion using the template {{RM notification}}. Banners placed at the top of the talk page hosting the move request can often be used to identify WikiProjects suitable for notification.
Notes
- ^ A nominator making a procedural nomination with which they may not agree is free to add a bulleted line explaining their actual position. Additional detail, such as sources, may also be provided in an additional bullet point if its inclusion in the nomination statement would make the statement unwieldy. Please remember that the entire nomination statement appears on the list on this page.
- ^ Despite this, discussions are occasionally relisted more than once.
- This section lists all requests filed or identified as potentially controversial which are currently under discussion.
Do not attempt to edit this list manually; a bot will automatically update the page soon after the {{subst:Requested move}} template is added to the discussion on the relevant talk page. The entry is removed automatically soon after the discussion is closed. To make a change to an entry, make the change on the linked talk page. |
This list is also available in a page-link-first format and in table format. 66 discussions have been relisted.
October 2, 2024
October 1, 2024
- (Discuss) – Power Four conferences → Power conferences (college football) – While the "Power Five" conferences died with the old Pac-12, it's unclear and too soon to determine if this "Power Four" grouping has long-term significance in the 12-team playoff era. Reliable sources also alternately describe two tiers in the current power structure, with the B1G/SEC as "Power Two" conferences above the Big 12 (diminished by the loss of Texas and Oklahoma) and the ACC (with Florida State and others currently actively trying to break out of the conference). In the moved article, Automatic Qualifying, Power Five, Power Four, and Power Two would all be included as MOS:BOLDALTNAMES in the lead. Power conferences (college football) is a title that is inclusive of both the BCS / Power Five notable historic era that makes up much of the article and both options for the Power Four / Power Two current reality. This is supported by reliable sources: :Washigton Post, 2023:
The Power Five concept that existed for more than a decade is dead. The sport will be framed around the “Power Two” conferences and everyone else for the next decade. “Everyone else” includes a haphazardly assembled, coast-to-coast Big 12, which picked Utah, Arizona, Arizona State and former Big 12 member Colorado off the Pac-12’s carcass to compensate for losing Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC. Then there’s the ACC, whose East Coast members are leaning against annexing Pac-12 castaways California and Stanford.
The article title Power conferences (college football) and/or Power conferences without disambiguation was supported by most participants in the recent requested move, with the closer statingWhile there's some suggestion that other names may be even better, there's no direct consensus on that... but there is consensus that the proposed name is preferable to the current name, so moved as specified. If people want to explore other moves in future RMs, they can go ahead.
I'm doing that now. In my opinion the "(college football)" disambiguation is needed, as Power Six conferences atop the Mid-majors is a term that exists / existed in College Basketball. PK-WIKI (talk) 21:51, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) → Israel–Hezbollah war – since the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon has began and the death toll is climbing and above 1,000 I think this article should be move to war. HuntersHistory (talk) 19:35, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – September 2024 Lebanon strikes → September 2024 Lebanon airstrikes – Per WP:PRECISION titles should unambiguously define the topical scope of the article - how can we reasonably say that "strikes is perfectly unambiguous? Are we supposed to believe that the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike was a military operation? Same for the 2022–present National Health Service strikes? "Airstrikes" is perfectly precise to accurately describe the nature of these attacks.For the first two nominations I would also support "... Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon". estar8806 (talk) ★ 19:21, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- August 2024 Israel–Lebanon strikes → August 2024 Israel–Lebanon airstrikes
- April 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel → April 2024 Iranian airstrikes against Israel
- October 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel → October 2024 Iranian airstrikes against Israel
- 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel → 2024 Iranian airstrikes against Israel
- (Discuss) – Balancing Rocks → Balancing rocks of Zimbabwe – As far as I can tell, this term is not really a proper noun for a specific place with balancing rocks or for a specific group of balancing rocks and is not unambiguous, as there are balancing rocks in a lot of other places besides Zimbabwe. The most famous ones in Zimbabwe are apparently in or near Matobo National Park and are sometimes called the Chiremba balancing rocks or the Epworth balancing rocks, and one particular group of such rocks is called the Mother and Child Kopje and is featured on the banknotes of Zimbabwe, but this article seems to be about balancing rocks in Zimbabwe in general. — BarrelProof (talk) 19:20, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Heavenly Delusion (TV series) → Tengoku Daimakyo – Official international title, used by Disney VenezuelanSpongeBobFan2004 (talk) 18:06, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Spider-Boy (Marvel Comics) → Spider-Boy – (also, Spider-Boy to Spider-Boy (disambiguation)). It's clearly the main use. Even if it was created recently, the character already has a self-titled ongoing comic book and has appeared in others. Spider-Boy (Amalgam Comics) is just a one-shot comic, that will never be used again because of its tangled copyrights (it's shared by Marvel and DC, two competitors that rarely release things together; the comic was clearly never meant to last for long), and Spider Boy (novel) is just a novel of borderline notability. Cambalachero (talk) 17:48, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Spider-Boy → Spider-Boy (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum → South Sudanese independence referendum – The inclusion of the year in the current title is unnecessary disambiguation because this was the only independence referendum in South Sudan’s history. There are no other referendums of this nature that require disambiguation by date. Other Wikipedia articles related to referendums generally avoid using years in the titles unless there is a need to distinguish between multiple similar events. So, the simpler title is more appropriate and aligns with Wikipedia’s naming policies, mostly WP:CONCISE. 𝚈𝚘𝚟𝚝 (𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚟𝚝) 16:22, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – 2023 BC Port strike → 2023 British Columbia port strike – When "BC" is used after a year name, it usually means "Before Christ", so the abbreviation should be expanded to avoid confusion. Also, "port" is not a proper noun, so it should be all lowercase. JsfasdF252 (talk) 16:09, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Decapod → Decapod (disambiguation) – 'Decapod (disambiguation)' was created for the express purpose of redirecting to 'Decapod'. However, 'Decapod' clearly has a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. 'Decapod' is the common name for the order Decapoda that houses all crabs, all shrimp, all prawns, all lobsters, and all crayfish. There are thousands of articles that fall under Decapoda and whose subjects can be called decapods. I've seen at this point several dozen wikilinks formatted as [[Decapoda|decapod]] because we direct to a disambig instead of a PT. At the bare minimum, even if a PT somehow isn't established, 'Decapod' would point to 'Decapod (disambiguation)', not vice-versa. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 08:16, 1 October 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 15:43, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers → Ultra Street Fighter II – Simpler common title and would hence follow the format also used in the articles Super Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II Turbo, and several others where the long full name isn't the article name. Sceeegt (talk) 15:00, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Parsley massacre → 1937 massacre of Haitians in the Dominican Republic – As stated in the article and backed up by citations, the current article title has been shown by academic research to be a misnomer. Furthermore, it is less recognizable than a descriptive title and there is no evidence that it is the WP:COMMONNAME. (Although it's hard to count, from Google Scholar results it appears that the majority of sources about this topic are using some kind of descriptive title,[3] rather than Parsley massacre.) (t · c) buidhe 14:44, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Flag of Macha → Flags from Macha – The current title is a bit misleading, firstly it discusses two flags, secondly "Flag of Macha" suggests that this is the official flag of that village, not a specific artifact found there. I know that the current title is technically correct, but since it's about flags, I think "Flags from Macha" would be a better option. Swiãtopôłk (talk) 20:13, 23 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 13:26, 1 October 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 14:10, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Homoleptic → Homoleptic and Heteroleptic compounds – Inclusive title Jeaucques Quœure (talk) 14:09, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Capros aper → Capros – Per WP:MONOTYPICFAUNA, "Capros" is the best title for this article, as long as disambiguation isn't required. I think this is the case – i.e., this fish is the primary topic for "Capros". Capros is currently a disambiguation page, but the only other entry there is CapROS, which is WP:DIFFCAPS. Special:PrefixIndex/Capros also shows Capros River, but that isn't even mentioned at its target. jlwoodwa (talk) 23:24, 23 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 14:01, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Capros → Capros (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – Tianjin University Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute → Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute, Tianjin University – Revert undiscussed move to the previous, and the official English name of this institution, which is commonly used and recognized by Chinese government, media and academic databases. Tim Wu (talk) 09:44, 14 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 00:21, 24 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 13:31, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Cristina Castro → Cristina Castro (politician) – No PRIMARYTOPIC, Cristina Castro (athlete) exists with same name. Create DAB at base name. Ortizesp (talk) 13:30, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Tangier Incident (film) → Tangier Incident – Sole such main title header, thus obviating need for the parenthetical qualifier "(film)". As for the entry delineating a relatively minor historical event from nearly 120 years ago, which is not known as "Tangier incident" and which currently does not carry a hatnote pointing to the film, a hatnote to the effect — "For the Tangier Crisis of 1905–06, see First Moroccan Crisis" — would suffice atop the film's entry. If consensus approves, a lowercase header — "Tangier incident" — could be created as a redirect to First Moroccan Crisis. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 19:43, 23 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 13:23, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Gheorghe Fieraru → Gheorghe Ferariu – his official name is Ferariu Ferarium (talk) 11:43, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – High Speed Rail Authority → High Speed Rail Authority (Australia) – To differentiate it from any other high speed rail authorities in other countries (previous, current and future). MiasmaEternal☎ 08:49, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Tunnel → Chenani–Nashri Tunnel – Suggest title is widely accepted (WP:COMMONNAME) by the reliable sources [4], [5], [6], [7]. If you search the current title on Google, it will display Chenani–Nashri Tunnel [8] It seems the tunnel has been renamed to Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Tunnel but that can be fixed in the lead section as "Chenani–Nashri Tunnel, Officially known as Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Tunnel". TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 08:48, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Czech Republic → Czechia – So, this is a perennial topic, but we said we would return to it in October to re-evaluate in the light of the Olympics, which is the latest in a long string of contexts in which we have recently seen a rapid change in usage. Before we get into arguments on the details, can we perhaps first have clarity on the criteria? These are laid down at Wikipedia:Article titles. May I suggest that everybody read that before they comment here? I think we can save ourselves a lot of time if we all agree to follow policy. Past discussions have suffered a lot from misinformation about this. Assuming that a subject has more than one title in reliable sources, the choice should be made primarily on five key criteria (shortcut WP:CRITERIA): recognizability (defined to mean that someone familiar with the topic will know what is meant), naturalness (meaning people will find it in a search), precision (what is most correct), concision (fewer words are better than more) and consistency (the article title follows a similar pattern to other articles on parallel topics). The policy page then goes on to talk about the rule of thumb that it is helpful to find the most commonly recognizable name (shortcut WP:COMMONNAME), not as an end in itself, but because this will often shed light on what best meets the five criteria. The logic is that if experts in the field have come to a consensus on terminology, they will usually have alighted on something that is recognizable, natural, precise, concise and consistent. So for present purposes, common name means what is commonly used by relevant authoritative voices. It specifically does not mean we should follow whatever is statistically most commonly used by people on the street who may have limited familiarity with the topic, and the policy page warns against giving too much weight to Google hits and the likes. Rather,
"[i]n determining which of several alternative names is most frequently used, it is useful to observe the usage of major international organizations, major English-language media outlets, quality encyclopedias, geographic name servers, major scientific bodies, and notable scientific journals."
I hope we can agree on those principles. So how do they apply to this case? Here’s my take. Czechia seems to me to fit all the five criteria, and on three of the five, it fits better than Czech Republic. # recognizability – both options are equally recognizable; we’re way beyond the point where anyone might not know what is meant by Czechia. # naturalness – this is subjective, but I think people will find us, so again I don’t think there is anything here to speak against the move. # precision – this one matters. The most correct name for a country or a people is the name it chooses for itself. The Czech government has asked the English-speaking world to use Czechia. That fact trumps all others on the question of correctness. # concision – one word rather than two is not a massive difference, but Czechia wins there too. # consistency with other articles – this is the biggie. I can’t think of any other country for which Wikipedia uses the long, official-sounding name as the article title when there is also a short, colloquial one. Actually, the policy page on article names specifically gives the example that we should use North Korea, not Democratic People's Republic of Korea. So our article title Czech Republic is a total outlier. So on precision and consistency there are strong arguments for a move, and the other three criteria certainly don’t speak against one. I think those arguments have been made and won long ago. The reason we have not had a consensus to change is because of judgments about what is the common name. In my opinion these have been problematic for two reasons. First, it has been repeated here like a mantra that common name is all that matters – in fact the policy page is quite clear that common name is subsidiary to the five naming criteria. And secondly, it has been treated as though common name means what is statistically most frequently used – sorry, but if we based this on a vox pop on the streets of Birmingham or Chicago, we would end up moving back to Czechoslovakia! Google hit counts can be part of our thinking, but not a big part of it. Rather, common name means: what is used by people professionally involved with the topic. Here we have to be careful to look at recent sources, because usage is changing fast. The policy page gives us suggestions for how to decide this, and if we follow these, the argument for Czechia now being the common name is beginning to look strong: # The usage of international organizations – it is significant that this is the policy page’s number-one pointer to common name, and here we have observed a landslide in the direction of Czechia in the last couple of years. It is now used by the diplomatic arm of the Czech government, the EU, the UN, NATO, the Council of Europe, the British Foreign Office, the American State Department, the CIA, the Olympics, UEFA, the Eurovision Song Contest, and many, many others. # Media – I don’t have an overview here, so I’ll let someone else discuss that, but I’m certainly seeing it in the newspapers. # Quality encyclopedias – I’m not sure there are any recent enough to reflect current changes. # Geographic name servers – A cursory survey suggests these usually recognize Czechia. I think the likes of Google Maps would be highly relevant here, and it now uses Czechia. # Scientific bodies and journals – My impressions are probably anecdotal, but the university people I know in Czech studies have been using Czechia for years. We see it prescribed in style-sheets for academic publishing. I’m sure there is a lot of evidence in both directions that other people can add here, but please concentrate on these kinds of authorities. Common name is NOT about hit-counts. Obviously even authorities who now prefer Czechia will still use Czech Republic wherever they would use French Republic or Republic of France. The point is not that the long form has gone, but that the short form is used when the short form of any other country would be used. I submit that for the most part, the relevant authorities have now reached that point. Doric Loon (talk) 04:32, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Siege of Gerona (disambiguation) → Sieges of Gerona – Several issues I hope to address with these proposed moves. First, it makes little sense to have the "second" and "third" sieges as titles but to call the first event a battle; of the three is was the most like a battle, but the distinction is confusing in this case. It does seem that [ordinal] siege of Gerona is the most common manner of disambiguating the various events. If the first segment were to carry the WP:COMMONNAME "Battle" then it should not carry a parenthetical qualifier, being already WP:NATURALly disambiguated and the primary topic for the term; the base name Battle of Girona already redirects there and is WP:MISPLACED. Second, when used alone without additional context, "Siege of Gerona" does seem to refer to the successful final siege as a primary topic, and currently redirects there. I am proposing to leave this as a primary redirect and turn the disambiguation page into a set index at the plural, but I would also support having the set index in place of the redirect at the singular. Third, while I personally feel "Siege" in these titles is part of the proper noun, use in sources is mixed, and most "siege" articles on enwiki do not take siege as part of the proper noun (in contrast to "Battle of..." which is almost always part of the proper noun; I don't see the distinction) and WP:MILCAPS is vague, so for now let's go for being the most consistent. Lastly, as for the Girona vs. Gerona issue, there has been past move reversions and discussion about this (e.g. Talk:Third siege of Girona#Girona/Gerona), and we should reach consensus here. I am open to either spelling, but am proposing a return to Gerona because it does seem a majority of reliable sources use this spelling, and that is the criterion upon which we should base our choice. On the other hand, the modern spelling of the city is the Catalan spelling. Regardless, the set index/disambiguation page should use the same spelling as the articles. Overall, I am open to discussing and considering any and all variations of this proposal, but the status quo should not be kept. Mdewman6 (talk) 04:03, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Cantonese Pinyin → ILE romanization of Cantonese – Per above, whose author I thank for pointing out just how poorly this article is named. I am frankly not sure about the proposed title, but it seems serviceable. If it's not ideal, better considered suggestions are encouraged. Remsense ‥ 论 03:53, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Albury V/Line rail service → Albury line – Under WP:COMMONNAME, the name should be "Albury line" not "Albury V/Line rail service" ThylacineHunter (talk) 03:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Albury line → Albury line (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – Ballarat V/Line rail service → Ballarat line – Under WP:COMMONNAME, the name should be "Ballarat line" not "Ballarat V/Line rail service" ThylacineHunter (talk) 03:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Bendigo V/Line rail service → Bendigo line – Under WP:COMMONNAME, the name should be "Bendigo line" not "Bendigo V/Line rail service" ThylacineHunter (talk) 03:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Geelong V/Line rail service → Geelong line – Under WP:COMMONNAME, the name should be "Geelong line" not "Geelong V/Line rail service" ThylacineHunter (talk) 03:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Gippsland V/Line rail service → Gippsland line – Under WP:COMMONNAME, the name should be "Gippsland line" not "Gippsland V/Line rail service" ThylacineHunter (talk) 03:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Seymour V/Line rail service → Seymour line – Under WP:COMMONNAME, the name should be "Seymour line" not "Seymour V/Line rail service" ThylacineHunter (talk) 03:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Warrnambool V/Line rail service → Warrnambool line – Under WP:COMMONNAME, the name should be "Warrnambool line" not "Warrnambool V/Line rail service" ThylacineHunter (talk) 03:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound standoff → Arrest of Apollo Quiboloy – Not a standoff, as the cops were allowed to get in; not a siege, because this was not in a warzone. The cops' mission was to arrest Quiboloy, and that should be the name of the article. Howard the Duck (talk) 02:44, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Kim Hyo-yeon → Hyoyeon – Obvious case of WP:COMMONNAME. Subject has never used her full name professionally is widely known and referred to mononomously as "Hyoyeon". "Hyoyeon" is unambiguous and currently just exists as a redirect to this article. Only other option would be "Hyo", which she started using relatively recently, but "Hyoyeon" is still by far the most common way she is referred to by reliable sources. References to "Hyoyeon" in relatively recent English language reliable sources: The Chosun Ilbo [9], Korea JoongAng Daily [10], NME [11], Maeil Business Newspaper [12], VN Express [13], NME [14], United Press International [15], South China Morning Post [16], ABS-CBN News [17], In normal circumstances this could probably just be an uncontroversial WP:BOLDMOVE but there was a previous discussion 12 years ago that prevents this as a matter of policy - I'm surprised it's taken this long to be formally brought up again. RachelTensions (talk) 01:50, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Bill Murray (American football) → Bill Murray (American football coach) – avoid confusion with Bill Murray (offensive lineman) Joeykai (talk) 00:21, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Dorian Williams → Dorian Williams (equestrian) – not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Joeykai (talk) 00:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Davis Allen → Davis Allen (designer) – not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Joeykai (talk) 00:14, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Patrick Scales → Patrick Scales (musician) – not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Joeykai (talk) 00:14, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Ronnie Bell → Ronnie Bell (chemist) – not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Joeykai (talk) 00:14, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Antonio Johnson → Antonio Johnson (defensive tackle) – not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Joeykai (talk) 00:13, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Cam Smith → Cam Smith (artist) – not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Joeykai (talk) 00:13, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
September 30, 2024
- (Discuss) – Ibi, Spain → Ibi, Alicante – Same form as Cox, Alicante; Cañada, Alicante; Orba, Alicante; Pego, Alicante; Planes, Alicante; Rafal, Alicante; etc. Nuvolet (talk) 23:35, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Richard Lyons (business professor) → Richard Kent Lyons – WP:NATURAL. Lyons is now more widely known as the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley than as a business professor. Cfls (talk) 22:54, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Albaida, Province of Valencia → Albaida, Valencia – Simplified form, like in Ador, Valencia. Nuvolet (talk) 22:45, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Obrimus (phasmid) → Obrimus – Obrimus is currently a disambiguation page, listing Bromius (son of Aegyptus) and Mage: The Awakening as two other targets. However, neither actually mentions an "Obrimus". Hippothoe and Actaeon both link to Bromius with the (piped) link text "Obrimus", so a hatnote could possibly be justified, but the phasmid definitely seems like the primary topic here. jlwoodwa (talk) 19:39, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- Obrimus → Obrimus (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – Republic of China (1912–1949) → Republican China – Primarily per the naturalness and concision WP:CRITERIA. The use of "Republican China" as a term referring to this periodization and its associated state is simply ubiquitous in English-language sources, such as The Cambridge History of China.[1] By contrast, merely "Republic of China" is not used as a term referring specifically to the pre-1949 period, so a parenthetical disambiguator is arguably inappropriate. On that note, this change would also more elegantly distinguish the scope of this article from that of Taiwan. This specific move was previously suggested in 2018: suffice it to say, I did not find the opposing arguments convincing. Heading a few potential objections off at the pass: firstly, historiographical labels function perfectly well as article titles in situations like these, cf. July Monarchy, Revolutionary Catalonia, Nazi Germany. Secondly, several editors argued the terms are not synonymous, or that "Republican China" refers only to the mainland during this period; these seem clearly dubious to me, and no further explanation or evidence for such distinctions was provided in the previous discussion. One final note: I was motivated to pose this RM as the result an offsite discussion with Generalissima, who was asking about the current naming situation and pondering about starting an RM herself; I then offered to do it instead.
References
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- Twitchett, Denis Crispin; Fairbank, John King, eds. (1983) [1978]. Republican China, 1912–1949 (Part 1). Vol. 12. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-23541-9.
- Fairbank, John King; Feuerwerker, Albert, eds. (1986) [1978]. Republican China, 1912–1949 (Part 2). The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 13. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-24338-4.
- Gao, James Zheng (2009). Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow. ISBN 0-8108-4930-5.
- Remsense ‥ 论 00:47, 22 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 16:31, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- Republican China → Republican China (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – Perspiration → Sweat – WP:COMMONNAME, in line with sweat gland and night sweats –Tobias (talk) 12:56, 18 September 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). – robertsky (talk) 08:01, 21 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 15:31, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Rococo Revival → Rococo revival – Per MOS:CAPS, the Wikipedia guidelines specify that we should render something as a proper name only if it is "consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources". However, looking at a pair of ngrams for this, one comparing the capitalised form of the bare name against other common capitalisations - [18] and the other including the word "was" afterwards, to eliminate false positives from titles and suchlike - [19] - we can see that while 20 or 30 years ago the title-case version was very dominant, in recent times it has dwindled to almost neck-and-neck. Thus the stipulation above is no longer met, and we should render this in sentence case. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 12:28, 21 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 15:29, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Wikipedia:Why is BFDI not on Wikipedia? → Wikipedia:Why is Battle for Dream Island not on Wikipedia? – I don't think having the show's name written out fully would be a bad idea. – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 14:46, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Michael Hardy (attorney) → Michael Hardy – Although the singer's full name is Michael Hardy, there doesn't seem to be widespread use of that name in reference to him, as he's usually credited as just Hardy. Therefore, this can be presumed to be the primary topic for "Michael Hardy" Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:09, 23 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 12:21, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Dargwa language → Literary Dargwa language – The article talks about the literary variety of Dargin, which is a language family, not a standalone language. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 23:54, 22 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 12:19, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Walton-on-the-Hill → Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey – No clear primary topic, the Surrey one has 310 views but the Staffordshire one has 44 and the Liverpool one has 1,616. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:01, 29 September 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). Crouch, Swale (talk) 11:45, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – SS Ivernia → RMS Ivernia (1899) – I've been performing significant research on Ivernia at the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, and with other primary sources including ship's passenger lists and correspondence. These all indicate the ship was in fact issued a Royal Mail contract like its sisters, Saxonia and Carpathia . As such, like its sister, the article should be named RMS Ivernia (1899) in line with its sister, using its launch date for disambiguation. This probably means that RMS Ivernia should be also disambiguated to RMS Ivernia (1955). An example of evidence of this prefix that is publicly accessible can be found here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/magbell.04100128/?sp=1&st=image Where Alexander Graham Bell is writing to his wife using official Cunard Letterhead on the Ivernia, stating the RMS prefix, which would have been a highly controversial thing to do less than six months after its maiden voyage if it had not in fact been given contract for the prefix. Other examples include the ship's crew writing RMS on passenger lists, articles in contemporary engineering journals using the RMS prefix, and more, although many of these are not in the public domain. Conversely, all evidence the ship was named SS Ivernia come from secondary sources, possibly influenced in part by the wikipedia title, with hobbyist indexes of ships, wreck sites, and other such content. Tobin Dax (talk) 10:20, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – First Morgan government → First Rhodri Morgan government – To avoid confusion with Eluned Morgan government DotCoder (talk) 10:02, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – LGBT rights by country or territory → LGBTQ rights by country or territory – per WP:CONSUB and MR/RM discussions and consensus on CfD, Portal, WProject --MikutoH talk! 23:50, 27 September 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). SilverLocust 💬 03:34, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Sexual disorder → Conditions related to sexual health – Update per ICD-11. Web-julio (talk) 03:25, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Insomniac (Green Day album) → Insomniac (album) – Likely WP:PRIMARYPDAB over Insomniac (Enrique Iglesias album), per a ~14:1 pageview ratio and per long-term pageviews. JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 03:14, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
September 29, 2024
- (Discuss) – Observatory Circle (Washington, D.C.) → Observatory Circle (neighborhood) – Better disambiguation is needed because Observatory Circle is also in Washington, D.C. I think "neighborhood" is a less confusing disambiguator. --Another Believer (Talk) 22:44, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Trump International Golf Club (Dubai) → Trump International Golf Club, Dubai – According to most primary sources, the name of the course directly includes the city's name, so the parentheses are not necessary. See here and here for example. I'd also like to bring up Trump National Golf Club, Los Angeles, Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia, and Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C., which are all actually in adjacent cities instead of their namesakes, but are titled that way because that's their actual names. This requested move similarly applies to Trump International Golf Club (West Palm Beach) and any other Trump golf courses that include superfluous parentheses. Unnamed anon (talk) 21:42, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine → Charles III Philip – Precise and concise. Per the WP:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility) guideline and the WP:Article titles policy, article titles should not contain disambiguation when no disambiguation is needed. Surtsicna (talk) 21:36, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Dory → Dory (boat) – No pageviews[20] or long-term notability advantage ahead of Dory (fish); WP:NOPRIMARY. 162 etc. (talk) 21:10, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Amran District → 'Amran District – I assume that this should follow 'Amran Governorate and 'Amran. 1234qwer1234qwer4 19:45, 21 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 21:09, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Matsieng Air Strip → Matsieng Aerodrome – Seems to be the predominant name (particularly in the sources about the crash). ("Matsieng Airstrip" without a space is also slightly more common than the current spelling according to Google Search.) 1234qwer1234qwer4 18:28, 22 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 21:04, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – John Pearce (entertainer) → John Pearce (singer) – Ambiguous with John Pearce (actor); primarily known for the Wiggles. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 19:40, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Nana (entertainer) → Nana (entertainer, born 1991) – Ambiguous with Nana (entertainer, born 2001) and Nana (rapper). Hameltion (talk | contribs) 19:34, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Jun (entertainer) → Jun (Seventeen singer) – (alternative titles welcome, perhaps Jun (entertainer, born 1997), though that's not ideal either) – Currently ambiguous with Lee Jun-young (entertainer), who comes up first in a search for
jun actor
. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 19:33, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Lee Jun-young → Lee Jun-young (disambiguation) – Clear primary topic by overwhelming pageviews (99.3%). Hameltion (talk | contribs) 19:28, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Lee Jun-ho → Lee Jun-ho (disambiguation) – Revert 2016 move as clear primary topic by overwhelming pageviews (99.5%). Hameltion (talk | contribs) 19:23, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Paul Whelan → Paul Whelan (disambiguation) – Primary topic by overwhelming pageviews (99% all-time, still 99% sans spikes) and, besides massive press coverage compared to other two, only notable Paul Whelan on first pages of Google Books. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 19:11, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Anna Hall (athlete) → Anna Hall (heptathlete) – (alternatively Anna Hall (track and field)) Given Anna Hall (volleyball), per Wikipedia:NCSP § Athletics (track and field):
To avoid the conflict between general sportspeople and the sport of athletics (track and field), it's best to disambiguate by event category rather than use a generic "(athlete)" suffix.
It may also be worth considering moving to Anna Hall as the primary topic; the question is whether to count Anna Hall Roosevelt in the pageviews but I don't think the Roosevelt is notable under that name. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 18:55, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Billy Boyd → Billy Boyd (disambiguation) – Clear primary topic by pageviews (99.6%!—other three combined average four views/day) and, as a gesture toward long-term significance, ngrams spike in the wake of the actor's LOTR films. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 18:37, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Kate Scott (presenter) → Kate Scott (British presenter) – Insufficient disambiguation, akin to (soccer) vs. (footballer). Alternatively, the British one should maybe return to Kate Abdo, by which she seems to be better known still. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 18:23, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Trump International Golf Club (West Palm Beach) → Trump International Golf Club (West Palm Beach, Florida) – Per parent article West Palm Beach, Florida. --Another Believer (Talk) 18:22, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Snowy albatross → Wandering albatross – Wandering albatross is the more common name. Kolano123 (talk) 17:50, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – 2024 CFL draft → 2024 CFL national draft – Now that CFL draft is ambiguous with CFL global draft, would it be better to have less ambiguous titles for the national drafts? Dicklyon (talk) 17:44, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 → Microsoft Flight Simulator (1982 video game) – "Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0" is unofficial. The game was never referred to as that name. Æ's old account wasn't working (talk) 14:48, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Aimee Wiele → Aimée Van de Wiele – Correct spelling and capitalization according to Belgian conventional usage. 94.196.249.214 (talk) 14:44, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Russell Findlay (politician) → Russell Findlay – He is now the primary topic as he has recently been promoted to leader of the Scottish Conservatives, a fairly important post. The other person can be dealt with by a hatnote. PatGallacher (talk) 13:53, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- Russell Findlay → Russell Findlay (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – Dimerization (chemistry) → Dimerization – Dimerization already redirects to Dimerization (chemistry). Am I missing something here? Is there any other sense of the term that is not chemistry (even in the biochemical senses)? Maybe there is a good reason for the disambiguated title, but I am certainly not seeing it. BD2412 T 12:03, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Statutory rules of Northern Ireland → Statutory rule of Northern Ireland – Statutory instrument (UK), Scottish statutory instrument, Welsh statutory instrument, are all named in the singular. the gazette refers to it in singular DotCoder (talk) 09:38, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Vilyeyka → Vileika – WP:COMMONNAME: most common English name, which any general-purpose rules cannot trump. google ngram does not see 'Vilyeyka' in books at all --Altenmann >talk 21:40, 3 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Bensci54 (talk) 17:02, 11 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 01:26, 19 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 08:25, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Fiat New 500 → Fiat 500 (2020) – Fiat 500 is more common name for this vehicle, didn't even see New 500 name in official website. John123521 (Talk-Contib.) 03:16, 22 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 07:59, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Capotain → ? – "Capotain(e)" appears to be a ghost word created by Walter Scott. The closest thing that can be found in early modern sources is "copataine", which occurs once in Shakespeare. The more usual terms for this kind of headwear were "copintank" and "sugarloaf hat". I suggest using one or the other as the title of the article. Zacwill (talk) 03:12, 22 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 07:56, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Anthony Gould → Anthony Gould (cricketer) – not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Joeykai (talk) 06:20, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Xavier Johnson → Xavier Johnson (basketball) – not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Joeykai (talk) 06:19, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Duke Riley → Duke Riley (artist) – not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Joeykai (talk) 06:18, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Eric Birgersson → Erik Birgersson – Only 19th century sources spell his name with "c". Compare the two post-1900 Google Books searches: * 1275+"Eric Birgersson" (no relevant results in any language) * 1275+"Erik Birgersson" (many relevant results, some in English) — Jähmefyysikko (talk) 20:41, 14 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:12, 22 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. RodRabelo7 (talk) 04:53, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Wembo Airport → Wembo-Nyama Airport – Seems to be the more widespread name. 1234qwer1234qwer4 03:32, 22 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. RodRabelo7 (talk) 04:52, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – List of Roblox games → List of notable Roblox games – Despite its tagging as a dynamic list and the title implying that it is a comprehensive list of Roblox games, this page is instead intended to outline a few notable games which do not meet criteria for a full page. Therefore, this should probably be renamed as such, especially given that the inclusion criteria for games that can be added to this page need be notable themselves. This page also goes beyond the standard list format which would usually just use bullets or tables. FamiliarFlareon (talk) 04:01, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Sloboda → Sloboda (settlement) – Everything I said three months ago in #Requested move 22 May 2024 still holds, we just had so little interest. In summary, there is no primary topic here. I believe I addressed the sole complaint. Here's hoping we'll get more people to read this now. In the meantime, the usage statistics continue to show the same picture of a lack of a primary topic, the topics most commonly navigated to are consistently not about the settlement meaning. (See Clickstreams from the last three months hidden box below.) Even if we're unsure, I say we should move it and then do the same measurements again later, and see if reader behavior indicates we need to keep or revert. -- Joy (talk) 08:14, 24 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 07:10, 1 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 03:28, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Mboie Airport → Mboi Airport – Seems to be the more widespread name. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:24, 22 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 03:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Skunk River → Skunk River (Iowa) – Per WP:PRECISE, WP:PLACEDAB and WP:NCRIVER. This river flows through rural Iowa directly into the Mississippi while the Skunk River (Platte River tributary) flows through rural Minnesota indirectly into the Mississippi. If I had to pick one to be the primary topic it would be this one since it's longer, but neither is prominent enough to avoid ambiguity. Indeed, I just corrected links to the wrong Skunk River on the Hillman, Minnesota, Pierz, Minnesota, and Genola, Minnesota articles.- RevelationDirect (talk) 00:55, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Quédate (disambiguation) → Quédate – No clear primary topic. (CC) Tbhotch™ 00:04, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Danna (disambiguation) → Danna – The singer still known as "Danna Paola", despite her stage name change,[21] is hardly the primary topic. (CC) Tbhotch™ 00:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
September 28, 2024
- (Discuss) – Battle of the Sacramento River → Battle of Sacramento (Mexico) – No strong evidence the battle is actually referred to as "Battle of the Sacramento River" except for a few web pages that aren't really WP:RS and may just be following enwiki's lead. Evidence instead point to "Battle of Sacramento" being the WP:COMMONNAME, and I'm not sure the current title is a sufficiently supported alternative name to justify WP:NATURAL disambiguation with Battle of Sacramento (Kentucky). Not sure if Kentucky/Mexico are the best disambiguators, open to suggestions. Perhaps years or war would be better qualifiers. Mdewman6 (talk) 23:11, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Canadian women in the World Wars → Canadian women in the world wars – In the recent RM discussion recorded at Talk:Canada in the world wars and interwar period, it was agreed that "world wars" is not consistently capitalized in reliable sources and therefore should be in lowercase. There are two articles that I am not yet including in this list until further discussion is held at Talk:List of films made in Poland in the Interwar Period about whether it is better to say "interwar period" or "between the world wars". — BarrelProof (talk) 22:42, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- Women in the World Wars → Women in the world wars
- Wales in the World Wars → Wales in the world wars
- Tanks of the United States in the World Wars → Tanks of the United States in the world wars
- United States service medals of the World Wars → United States service medals of the world wars
- Switzerland during the World Wars → Switzerland during the world wars
- History of the British 1st Division during the World Wars → History of the British 1st Division during the world wars
- Australian rules football during the World Wars → Australian rules football during the world wars
- List of England rugby union footballers killed in the World Wars → List of England rugby union footballers killed in the world wars
- List of Wales rugby union footballers killed in the World Wars → List of Wales rugby union footballers killed in the world wars
- (Discuss) – Hawk Tuah → Hawk tuah – Unnecessary capitalization. Article is no longer about the "Hawk Tuah Girl" (where title case would be necessary). The RM above was closed without really addressing the captalization. C F A 💬 21:49, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Piccolino no Bōken → Pinocchio (1976 TV series) – Official English name, per Studio 100 International's site. VenezuelanSpongeBobFan2004 (talk) 20:30, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Expectation → Expectation (disambiguation) – According to Cambridge Dictionary, the primary meaning of "expectation" refers to the psychological concept of anticipating something to happen. The other entries listed on the disambiguation page have a more specific names like expectation–maximization algorithm. Therefore, it seems logical to move the psychological concept to the more concise title, which would also resolve another issue: the parenthetical addition. Typically, we use a noun as a disambiguator (e.g., anticipation (genetics), stress (mechanics)) rather than adjectives. Additionally, it’s challenging to attribute this concept to a single scientific field—whether psychology, philosophy, or epistemology—so how should we specify it? For all other meanings, we can simply just add a disambiguation hatnote to the lead of the current expectation (epistemic) page. –Tobias (talk) 20:19, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Motocross des Nations → Motocross of Nations – Seems to be the most used name for the event (WP:COMMONNAME), including FIM, the governing body. Also WP:ENGLISHTITLE. Pelmeen10 (talk) 19:45, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Kentarō Itō → Kentarō Itō (voice actor) – There needs to be some disambiguation as the article Kentaro Ito (actor) exists, which is for another actor with he same romanized name. lullabying (talk) 18:44, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Spīn Ghar → Safed Koh – Restore the article to its previously discussed name. The article was moved to a local name [22], but per the discussion on the talk page, it was restored[23] to its original stable WP:COMMONNAME. Ainty Painty (talk) 04:40, 18 September 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). – robertsky (talk) 07:51, 21 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 15:00, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – European Canadians → White Canadians – Nowhere does Statistics Canada conflate the racial term "white" with the geographic origin term "European". Source 1 - Source 2 -Source 3 - Source 4Moxy🍁 14:08, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Million Roses → Dāvāja Māriņa – Move to original title of song. Current title is English translation of Russian title. No English version of the song is known to exist. Other feasible titles would be Dāvāja Māriņa meitenei mūžiņu (longer version of title), Million roz (transliterated official Russian title) or Million alykh roz (common colloquial version of Russian title). While it could be argued that the Russian version is more widely known, I believe using the original Latvian title (with the Russian titles as redirects) is more respectful and appropriate, considering also that the Raimonds Pauls is famous in Russia too, and the song is AFAIK widely known there to be his, and also AFAIK neither version is widely known in English sources. The shorter Latvian title seems to be more common and also used in Latvian wiki; I don't know if the longer title is actually official (although it has been used on at least one Latvian cover). Mats84 (talk) 12:44, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Omega (Rosalía song) → Omega (song) – Only song titled "Omega" with an article. Next time just remove the redirect and write the article there. 2803:9800:9096:7B96:B87B:73A8:9378:7A88 (talk) 07:38, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – 2024 Haret Hreik airstrike → July 2024 Haret Hreik attack – This needs to be disambiguated from the September 20 attack also in Haret Hreik[24]. The consensus at that article's talk page seems to be forming around September 2024 Haret Hreik attack, so the proposed title format would be WP:CONSISTENT. The term "attack" in both titles would be consistent with Majdal Shams attack, Nabatieh attack etc. VR (Please ping on reply) 05:14, 21 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 06:19, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Gheorghe Popescu (footballer, born 1967) → Gheorghe Popescu – Gheorghe Popescu is the name of two footballers. This one is the clear primary topic, being one of Romania's most important players ever. The pagemove to "footballer, born 1967" is only a year old and happened without discussion, and as you can infer I believe it was a good-faith action but ultimately misguided. Geschichte (talk) 05:46, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- Gheorghe Popescu → Gheorghe Popescu (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – App Store (Apple) → App Store – WP:DIFFCAPS and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. The generic concept is called an app store, not an App Store. There is only one notable app store called the "App Store"; the other major app stores are called Google Play, Amazon Appstore, Microsoft Store, and Galaxy Store. (Amazon Appstore is a partial title match.) Note that there is a separate article for the Mac App Store, which is a subtopic of this article and not a contender for the primary topic. InfiniteNexus (talk) 04:40, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Ryan Whitney → Ryan Whitney (ice hockey) – Firstly, there is no clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC between Ryan Whitney and Ryan Whitney (actress) (see similar page view numbers, suggesting equal readership). Ryan Whitney used to be called Ryan Newman, which is where all the problems start. However, after three years, two failed RMs, and a unilateral move by a user, we're passed the WP:TOOSOON stage. Let's say Ryan Whitney (actress)'s WP:COMMONNAME is actually Ryan Whitney (more on that later), and we manage to agree that there is no PRIMARYTOPIC, then, we need to move the pages accordingly and create a proper disambiguation page, instead of what is now at Ryan Whitney (disambiguation).
Next, for the case of Ryan Newman (racing driver), the page needs to be moved to Ryan Newman, since he would be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the name "Ryan Newman". We could leave a hatnote at the top so that readers looking for the former Ryan Newman, now Ryan Whitney, could find her. I don't think a Ryan Newman (disambiguation) page is necessary, but let me know. Ryan Dean Newman can stay as is, and we can leave a hatnote if need be.Alternate proposal
: if you disagree with Ryan Whitney's WP:COMMONNAME being Ryan Whitney, I suggest moving Ryan Whitney (actress) to Ryan Whitney Newman, which is used in a fair chunk of sources and on places like her Instagram page. Ryan Newman (racing driver) is still moved to Ryan Newman, hatnotes are still left at the top, but that way we can leave Ryan Whitney (the ice hockey player) where he is, and just leave a hatnote at the top. Ryan Whitney (disambiguation) can be outright deleted. Ryan Dean Newman, no change but hatnotes where needed. Paul Vaurie (talk) 13:17, 29 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 06:15, 7 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Sennecaster (Chat) 01:25, 28 September 2024 (UTC)- Ryan Newman (racing driver) → Ryan Newman
- Ryan Newman → Ryan Newman (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- Ryan Whitney (disambiguation) → Ryan Whitney
- (Discuss) – Gender self-identification → Gender self-determination – This page is about the legal human right to determine one's gender in documents. Gender self-identification refers to the act of self-identifying or self-conceptualizing one's own gender identity. Self-determination includes not only the freedom to self-identify, but also the freedom to disidentification (not identifying as something doesn't automatically mean self-identifying as another thing). And thus gender self-determination is more precise and concise. --MikutoH talk! 23:52, 20 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 01:16, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Hyperparameter → Hyperparameter (Bayesian statistics) – Does not appear to be primary topic over Hyperparameter (machine learning) * Pppery * it has begun... 20:13, 20 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 01:15, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Serviceton railway line → Ararat railway line – Edited article a while ago to reflect that the Serviceton line hasn't existed since 1995, when it was truncated to Ararat; the section past Ararat through to Serviceton was converted to standard gauge in 1995 and connected to other lines to form today's Western standard gauge railway line. Current Ararat railway line page is a redirect to Ballarat V/Line rail service (which covers the Ballarat and Ararat passenger services running on the line). I requested a move back when I first edited the article, however the request was removed as it was never completed. Граймс (talk) 08:51, 17 September 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). 2pou (talk) 17:46, 20 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 01:14, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Extremely online → Chronically online – Chronically online is the common name. I looked up "chronically online", "terminally online", and "extremely online" with quotation marks on Google, and 933,000, 240,000, 153,000 search results were returned respectively (the numbers may vary, but not the order). Chronically online is also the descriptive name, as chronically and acutely are two different things, with terminally and extremely possibly referring to acutely, which would be an inaccurate characterization. Anecdotally, I hear chronically online slightly more commonly than terminally online while almost never hearing extremely online, which has been backed by the search results. Sir Kenneth Kho (talk) 16:18, 20 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 01:12, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Distributed social network → Federated social network – Most people and articles today refer to distributed social networks such as ActivityPub or AT Protocol as a federated social network, not a distributed social network. Renaming the article to "Federated social network" would help the article to gain more visibility and attention, especially considering the outdated state of the article. LemurianPatriot (talk) 13:13, 13 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading of Beans 14:43, 20 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 01:10, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Oligosoma homalonotum → chevron skink – Most common name used in news articles. Scientific publications tend to list the name chevron skink before Oligosoma homalonotum; also following the general convention of the majority of New Zealand endemic reptile pages using common names. Prosperosity (talk) 00:39, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
September 27, 2024
- (Discuss) – 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike → 27 September 2024 Beirut attacks – While Israel states it only targeted the Hezbollah headquarters, several RS say the attack lay waste to "Several apartment blocks"[25] or "multiple high-rise apartment buildings"[26]. Given such an immense destruction of civilian infrastructure, we should not put Israeli claims that this was a "precise strike" on just the Hezbollah HQ in wikivoice (violation of WP:POVTITLE]), and instead pick the most neutral title. VR (Please ping on reply) 21:40, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Cusk (fish) → Brosme – "Cusk" is a common name of another fish, the burbot (source). I think it's better to use the unambiguous scientific name than to further disambiguate this common name. jlwoodwa (talk) 20:44, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Eric Trolle → Erik Trolle – The first item is per WP:COMMONNAME. Comparison between Google Books searches "Erik Trolle" 1512 and "Eric Trolle" 1512 shows that the former returns more relevant results. The second item is per WP:NCPDAB, which recommends using something else than the birth-death range as a disambiguator. Additionally, the results for "Eric Trolle" are mostly about the diplomat, but perhaps not clearly enough for a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Thus, Eric Trolle should be made into a dab page. — Jähmefyysikko (talk) 20:41, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Briggsia → Briggsia (plant) – I don't think this historically recognized plant genus is the primary topic over Briggsia (fish), a currently-accepted genus. jlwoodwa (talk) 20:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Copenhagen criteria → European Union membership criteria – This article includes both the Copenhagen criteria and geographic criteria; according to comments on the talk page these are separate. Readers interested in one topic are probably interested in the other, so having them both in a single article makes sense, and it's been that way for a while. This proposal is to change the title to match the contents of the article, to resolve the repeated complaints on the talk page that the geographic criteria are off-topic. -- Beland (talk) 19:25, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Dahiya doctrine → Dahieh doctrine – Very few sources refer to "Dahieh" area as "Dahiya." I think the main article should be "Dahieh doctrine" with alternative spellings being mentioned in the first sentence of the article. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Dahiya%22 only returns results as it relates to this military doctrine NOT the area it is supposedly named after. RisingTzar (talk) 19:12, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – 2024 Labour Party freebies controversy → United Kingdom freebies controversy – Former Tory chancellor George Osborne had suggested on the podcast that former Tory Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha Cameron had received freebie clothes paid for with Tory donor cash to "look smart" which was undeclared at the time. Therefore I do believe that the current controversy is now becoming a wider controversy across the political spectrum. Pikachu3408 (talk) 16:27, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Blade (New Line franchise character) → Blade (1998 film series character) – While this article has historically used alternative titles with "New Line" in the DAB (which is not even the complete name of New Line Cinema), I am not convinced that this is the most beneficial or recognizable disambiguation for this subject. In accordance with WP:FILMCHARACTERS, the most relevant franchise title ought to be used. Because this article primarily covers Wesley Snipes' portrayal of the role (from the 1998 film to 2024, with only a one season spin-off TV show in 2006 played by Sticky Fingaz), I am proposing a title change to one more closely associated with the film series rather than putting more preference and WP:UNDUEWEIGHT on one of the studios behind it. The New Line alt DABs can obviously remain as helpful search term redirects, alongside one with a "Wesley Snipes" DAB, which would not be in line with FILMCHAR due to its preference to use film, film series, or franchise DABs. This is consistent with the approach to titles for Superman (1978 film series character) and Bruce Wayne (1989 film series character) (both of which have appeared in other media but are primarily covering the original film series versions), Bruce Wayne (Dark Knight trilogy), Joker (The Dark Knight), and Peter Parker (Sam Raimi film series) (all using more recognizable DABs for the subject rather than the studio). Trailblazer101 (talk) 15:40, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum → NEOS (Austria) – Here on English Wikipedia we use the name that is most commonly used by independent, reliable, English-language sources. We do not have to use the full/official/legal names, or include taglines/slogans or use literal translations of foreign language names. Independent, reliable, English language sources are more likely to use NEOS than NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum. The party calls itself "NEOS". Obi2canibe (talk) 15:19, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Public Service Announcement (disambiguation) → Public Service Announcement – Per WP:DIFFCAPS and everything else (other than the common term heard on social media) is written that way in the dab page. To make it clear, the term 'public service announcement' has a primary topic but 'Public Service Announcement' doesn't. JuniperChill (talk) 11:58, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Mohamed Kamara → Mohamed Kamara (footballer, born 1987) – no WP:PRIMARYTOPIC per page views [27] Joeykai (talk) 00:06, 20 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 09:42, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Rest (superannuation fund) → Rest Super – Natural disambiguation 122.151.135.161 (talk) 09:23, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – ARIA Music Awards of 1987 → 1987 ARIA Music Awards – Per guidelines outlined here. Consider discussion at Talk:2020 ARIA Music Awards, which resulted in the move of ARIA Music Awards of 2020 to 2020 ARIA Music Awards. Subsequent awards articles in this series maintained the {{year}} ARIA Music Awards format. The discussion implied the moving of prior years' articles, but as afar as I can tell only redirects were implemented. Didier Landner (talk) 07:09, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- ARIA Music Awards of 1988 → 1988 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 1989 → 1989 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 1990 → 1990 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 1991 → 1991 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 1992 → 1992 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 1993 → 1993 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 1994 → 1994 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 1995 → 1995 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 1996 → 1996 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 1997 → 1997 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 1998 → 1998 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 1999 → 1999 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2000 → 2000 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2001 → 2001 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2002 → 2002 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2003 → 2003 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2004 → 2004 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2005 → 2005 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2006 → 2006 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2007 → 2007 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2008 → 2008 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2009 → 2009 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2010 → 2010 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2011 → 2011 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2012 → 2012 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2013 → 2013 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2014 → 2014 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2015 → 2015 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2016 → 2016 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2017 → 2017 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2018 → 2018 ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2019 → 2019 ARIA Music Awards
- (Discuss) – Māori religion → Religion of Māori people – Open to another title suggestion but the current title implies this is an article on the the Maori religion rather than being about the different religious beliefs held by Maori people. Redirect would probably need to be re-targetted but only after all incoming links have been updated Traumnovelle (talk) 05:44, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – September 2024 East–West MRT line disruption → 2024 East–West MRT line disruption – While there are other train disruptions in 2024 (like a lightning strike on another line, most of the rest, if any, and if not all, are minor and likely not notable by our standards here. Therefore proposing the removal of the month here. Furthermore, adding the hyphen for consistency with the parent topic, East–West MRT line. – robertsky (talk) 05:17, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Niigata Sogo Television → NST Niigata Sogo Television – Current corporate name as of 2019. VenezuelanSpongeBobFan2004 (talk) 03:14, 20 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 03:36, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Oracle Cerner → Oracle Health – Continuing the rebranding of the Cerner and Oracle Cerner to Oracle Health. Now that cerner.com has been redirected to oracle.com/health, and the page uses the branding of "Oracle Health", I feel as though this is the correct namespace for this page. Of course with redirects from Cerner and Oracle Cerner to the new page name. Tim (Talk) 22:23, 19 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 03:17, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Yuta Nakamoto → Yuta – Propose moving Yuta Nakamoto to Yuta per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Regarding WP:COMMONNAME rationale: *Article subject uses mononym professionally and almost all English-language sources refer to him as "Yuta" rather than full name. **Examples: Korea Joongang Daily, Star News Korea, Hollywood Reporter, USA Today, Nikkei, L'Officiel Singapore, NME, Vogue Singapore Cosmopolitan Regarding WP:PRIMARYTOPIC rationale: *Yuta is currently a redirect to Yūta. **Yuta average daily redirect views: 2 **Yūta average daily page views 18 **Yuta Nakamoto average daily page views 223. The few people looking for the name Yūta could easily be directed to their intended destination by a hatnote on the Yuta Nakamoto article. RachelTensions (talk) 02:32, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – AIM-174B → AIM-174 – Might as well eliminitae the "B" per WP:CONCISE -- the "AIM-174B" is *technically* a specific variant of the AIM-174. Also allows for future variants (a hypothetical AIM-174C, for instance) to be added with no issue. Attempted to move myself, cannot; re-direct exists. MWFwiki (talk) 00:44, 20 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. RodRabelo7 (talk) 01:33, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – MountainView Hospital, Las Vegas → MountainView Hospital – There is no other hospital called "MountainView" so the ",Las Vegas" modifier isn't needed. Bait30 Talk 2 me pls? 01:28, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – The Tea Party → The Tea Party (band) – The name of this subject is probably not enough to distinguish it from other subjects on Tea Party, specifically Tea Party movement which is sometimes called "The Tea Party". For this reason, readers would probably be better served if The Tea Party redirected to disambiguation page Tea Party in order to figure out which topic they are looking for. Steel1943 (talk) 00:47, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
September 26, 2024
- (Discuss) – Mozart's name → Names of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Harmonization with similar articles Juwan (talk) 23:50, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Rivergate Mall → RiverGate Mall – While both variations are used, most reliable sources (such as news articles and the mall's official website) use "RiverGate" over "Rivergate." BlueShirtz (talk) 22:30, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Travis Hunter (American football) → Travis Hunter – The football player is the clear primary topic. See pageviews stats which show over 1 million views for the football player versus about 3,500 for the writer in the past two years. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:37, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- Travis Hunter → Travis Hunter (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – Russian-Livonian War (1480-1481) → Livonian–Russian war of 1480–1481 – or Livonian–Pskov Republic war. The hyphenated date range is strange, especially since Russian-Livonian War is a red link. Perhaps the Livonian War (of 1558–1583) could be described as a Russian–Livonian war. Perhaps alphabetical order is appropriate. A dash rather than a hyphen seems appropriate between the opposing parties in a war (unless a combining form is used such as Russo-Livonian war of 1480–1481). — BarrelProof (talk) 21:08, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Thomas Alvard (1460–1504) → Thomas Alvard (merchant, born 1460) – or the second one could be Thomas Alvard (politician) or Thomas Alvard (Ipswich MP) or Thomas Alvard (MP for Ipswich). Wikipedia doesn't ordinarily use lifespan ranges (especially hyphenated ones) for disambiguation of people under WP:NCP. Neither is dominant in a pageviews analysis. — BarrelProof (talk) 20:38, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – John Rous (fl. 1410-1414) → John Rous (Ipswich MP) – or John Rous (MP for Ipswich). To avoid using a date range as the disambiguator, which is not generally done under WP:NCP (especially using a date range expressed with a hyphen). — BarrelProof (talk) 20:06, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Sir Henry Willoughby (1451-1528) → Sir Henry Willoughby (knight) – or Sir Henry Willoughby (sheriff). Wikipedia does not ordinarily use lifespan ranges (especially hyphenated ones) for disambiguation of people per WP:NCP. BTW, do we really need the "Sir" honorific? — BarrelProof (talk) 19:48, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Rupert of Palatinate-Simmern (1420-1478) → Rupert of Palatinate-Simmern – On Wikipedia, we ordinarily don't use lifespan ranges (especially hyphenated ones) as disambiguators for people under WP:NCP. Pageviews show the one born in 1420 as dominant between the two. — BarrelProof (talk) 19:14, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Turnover (employment) → Employee turnover – This would appear to be a clear WP:NATURAL situation. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:09, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Bessarabske, Ukraine → Bessarabske – Only one populated place with such name Yuriy Kvach (talk) 14:41, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Leading-tone → Leading tone – Is and has always been the most common form; the present title looks like either an idiosyncratic mistake or the adjectival form. Remsense ‥ 论 14:35, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Danny Cohen (television executive) → Danny Cohen (media executive) – The present name is outdated and inaccurate. Cohen is a media executive working with a large variety of media forms aside from just television. C at Access (talk) 15:06, 11 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 12:05, 18 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ASUKITE 14:34, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Chelis → Chelis (moth) – All three pages have identical names, with the sole differences being diacritics. Add disambiguator for all and create a disambiguation page. RedPatch (talk) 14:06, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Wild Wing (disambiguation) → Wild Wing – No clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, per Pageviews. Paradoctor (talk) 11:52, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Enhanced interrogation techniques → Use of torture under George W. Bush – It seems like the last time this was debated, much of the content of the page and the WP:RS consensus was not present. Now, the article itself shows near unanimous agreement that EIT = torture. I don't have a good replacement name, but the current name has about as much support as "Shower Rooms in Nazi Germany". For example: "According to ABC news in 2007, the CIA removed waterboarding from its list of acceptable interrogation techniques in 2006." If these techniques were "enhanced", why are they no longer used? Even the group the put that name out there doesn't believe in the techniques anymore. It was a branding exercise, not a meaningful summary or specifier on the techniques used. Compare to Enhanced driver's license and Enhanced Fujita scale. I just skimmed the article and the only people I could find calling it not-torture in the modern-ish era are: Bush administration officials, and NPR in 2009 (15 years ago). NPR has since published the term in scare quotes[1], leading one to wonder how useful the descriptor is. I notice the page for Armenian genocide is not the "events of 1915" (one of the Turkish euphemisms for the genocide), for example.
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September 25, 2024
- (Discuss) – North American Soccer League (1968–1984) → North American Soccer League – As the primary topic in both common use and long-term significance, I believe the original NASL should not need to be disambiguated while its short-lived reincarnation should remain disambiguated. The second league has been defunct for several years and most coverage in secondary sources in the past few years has been focused on the original NASL. SounderBruce 22:22, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- North American Soccer League → North American Soccer League (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – Roseto Sharks → Pallacanestro Roseto – The club was refounded in 2020 under the name Pallacanestro Roseto (see official website). Radis (talk) 18:34, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Bellevue Transit Center → Bellevue Downtown station – Name should reflect the station's actual name, capitalization of "station" is contingent on the discussion at Talk:Symphony station (Sound Transit) LinkLightRail (talk) 04:31, 7 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ASUKITE 20:07, 18 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 14:25, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Philippos Alexandreia F.C. → A.E. Alexandreia F.C. – The club was dissolved in 2018 and then refounded in 2019–2020 as A.E. Alexandreia F.C. as Asd199023's edits suggest. The same user (now blocked) attempted the move as a cut-and-paste move, which has since been reverted. GTrang (talk) 14:04, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion → 2024 Kursk offensive – The offensive is far beyond 2024 August until now, so the "2024 August" is less suitable for this moment. Cmsth11126a02 (talk) 13:24, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Murder of Felicia Gayle → Murder of Felicia Gayle and execution of Marcellus Williams – This article now contains more content sbout the execution of Marcellus Williams than the murder of Felicia Gayle. There are two victims here, Gayle and Williams; one most likely murdered by persons unknown, and the other a victim of unjust judicial killing, as criminal conviction requires proof beyond reasonable doubt. However, both topics are inextricably linked, precluding a split. For that reason, it needs to be renamed to cover both topics. — The Anome (talk) 13:06, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Jean de Luxembourg (1400-1466) → Jean de Luxembourg, Lord of Haubourdin – or Jean de Luxembourg, Admiral of the Burgundian Netherlands or Jean de Luxembourg, Admiral of the Netherlands or Jean de Luxembourg, Admiral of the Netherlands outside Flanders. To avoid using the lifespan as a disambiguator (especially a lifespan that uses a hyphen instead of a dash). — BarrelProof (talk) 12:43, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Nikola Kalinić → Nikola Kalinic – This nomination is a follow-up to the recently concluded Talk:Nikola Kalinić (footballer)#Requested move 7 September 2024. Since English language does not use accents or diacritics, the default option in the creation of English Wikipedia disambiguation page main title headers should be to likewise not add those marks to such headers unless every entry on a particular dab page uses them. Thus, in the case at hand, Nikola Kalinić should redirect to Nikola Kalinic, rather than Nikola Kalinic redirecting, as it currently does to Nikola Kalinić. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 15:10, 17 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 12:31, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Green Lane Hospital → Green Lane Hospital, Wiltshire – The Auckland hospital seems to have more significance than the one in Wiltshire and receives more views. The Auckland hospital is over a century old whilst the Wiltshire one is barely three decades old. Traumnovelle (talk) 08:32, 18 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 12:26, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Gordon Campbell → Gordon Campbell (Canadian politician) – I question if there is a primary topic. We have the Secretary of State for Scotland, not much less important than prime minister of British Columbia, who some British people might regard as the primary topic. We also have a British vice-admiral, who won the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest award for bravery. PatGallacher (talk) 09:21, 18 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 12:24, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Wildest Dreams → Wildest Dreams (disambiguation) – Clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC per pageviews. JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 14:44, 17 September 2024 (UTC)— Relisting. Dekimasuよ! 11:22, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Never Grow Up → Never Grow Up (disambiguation) – Clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC per pageviews. JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 03:20, 17 September 2024 (UTC)— Relisting. Dekimasuよ! 11:21, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – List of films made in Poland in the Interwar Period → List of films made in Poland in the interwar period – or List of films made in interwar Poland and Lower-level football leagues in interwar Poland, or List of films made in Poland between the world wars and Lower-level football leagues in Poland between the world wars. Per the body of the article about the interwar period and the recent RM discussion at Talk:Canada in the world wars and interwar period#Requested move 27 August 2024, "Interwar" should not be capitalized, and these are the only two article titles I find on Wikipedia that capitalize that word (except one that has the word in a book title). It also seems desirable for article titles to be consistent in regard to using "the interwar period" versus "interwar Countryname" versus "between the world wars". I also see no justification for capitalizing "Level", "Football" and "Leagues", and I suggest "lower-level" should be hyphenated in this usage per MOS:HYPHEN. Possibly, the football league article could be alternatively be called a list. Note that there are also decade-specific lists that cover the same timespan for the films; see Lists of Polish films. — BarrelProof (talk) 10:34, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Don't Blame Me → Don't Blame Me (disambiguation) – Clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC per pageviews. JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 17:45, 17 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. cyberdog958Talk 08:15, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Turkmenistani manat → Turkmen manat – The demonym of Turkmenistan is widely considered to be "Turkmen", and "Turkmenistani" is not widely used. Therefore it should be "Turkmen manat". Hlsci (talk) 15:51, 1 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 10:08, 9 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading of Beans 05:41, 18 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 05:58, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Postmodern television → List of postmodern television programs – Article as written is a list of programs so would be better if the name reflected that RJFJR (talk) 02:45, 11 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 04:38, 18 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 05:55, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Piecewise property → Piecewise – The "piecewise" isn’t a property in the way, say, the continuity is a property of a function. The same point has been made by other editors at Talk:Piecewise_function#Requested_move_20_July_2024. Taku (talk) 08:08, 26 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Steel1943 (talk) 21:20, 17 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BD2412 T 01:01, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
Elapsed listings
- (Discuss) – Bus Driver (video game) → Bus Driver – Per WP:DIFFCAPS, as there is nothing competing for the capitalized version. Was reverted with the argument that it is "controversial" and that the game is "not notable" (which is not true, see here for the reviews). Needless to say I do not agree in the slightest. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 00:28, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Quonset Hut Studio → Bradley Studios – The studio that came to be known as the "Quonset hut studio" was the second of two studios (Studio B) at Bradley Studios. Bradley Studios was later purchased by Columbia Studios, who retained the "Quonset hut studio" as Columbia Studio B, but built a new Columbia Studio A as part of the Music Row complex. While Studio B has generally been known as the "Quonset hut studio", it's only part of the story of that recording facility, and even the historical marker at the site is about Bradley Studios and not only the "Quonset hut studio". Now that the article has been expanded to encompass Bradley Studios and later Columbia Studios, I think the article would more appropriately be named Bradley Studios, with a Redirect page for the "Quonset hut studio". synthfiend (talk) 22:27, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Statue of Lucille Ball → Statue of Lucille Ball (Celoron, New York) – Disambiguation helpful given Statue of Lucille Ball (Palm Springs, California). I propose converting Statue of Lucille Ball into a disambiguation page. ---Another Believer (Talk) 22:20, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – George Yeoman Pocock → George Yeomans Pocock – The subject's middle name was 'Yeomans' per the discussion 'Middle name of subject' and birth certificate, above. The page was moved[28] from 'George Yeomans Pocock' only recently, so this is a request to move it back. Phlar (talk) 21:16, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Middleton F.C. (1890) → Middleton F.C. – The original Middleton F.C. page was for a prominent football club from the 1890s. A user tried to delete the page (without warning) so that they could create a new page for a non-league club of no prominence. That having failed, they simply deleted all the text for the 1890 club, which got reverted; and then moved the 1890 club page to a new page, meaning the links to it were duly ruined. Now the "new" Middleton club has changed its name so these underhand shenanigans were all moot. Am proposing we put the 1890 club back to where it was created as there are no links to the new club - notably the person who made all these changes did so without contacting the page creator (me) once... In Vitrio (talk) 21:07, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – LGBT pride → LGBTQ pride – The page was moved from Gay pride to LGBT pride a few years ago in recognition that this article is about Pride of the community, not just exclusively the Gay community, despite the term Gay pride still being higher in use than LGBT pride was at the time, so the consensus for the article was explicitly to deviate from exclusively applying WP:COMMONNAME as a compound word in the move in 2022 in recognition that the true common name nowadays is just Pride without any qualifiers. Now as a followup some years later, I propose we move it to LGBTQ pride in recognition of the community continuing to evolve and explicitly adding the Q as was also recently done in the main article LGBTQ (RM discussion) in recognition of LGBTQ replacing just LGBT. The person that contested the bold move argued that WP:COMMONNAME applied, but as I pointed out, this article is already not named in line with strict common name of the combined term, but in recognition of the community as the true common name today is simply "Pride" (in line with the sibling articles Pride Month and Pride parade, which doesn't need a qualifier, so no suffix or prefix is needed to disambiguate) without any qualifiers, but since the article requires a qualifier to differentiate it from just the English word Pride, it was then decided to add LGBT for it, which was the common name for the community at large at the time, consistent with the parent article, which was also LGBT at the time and instead of using Pride (LGBT) it was decided to use LGBT Pride per WP:NATURAL to use a prefix, not a suffix, so the current article title should not be interpreted as a compound word, but instead is just a natural combination instead of suffix disambiguation. Following this now, I believe means we should continue to now also follow WP:CONSUB for consistent titling of sub-articles related to the parent title. This is also supported if we combine LGBTQ pride and Queer pride, which is about double that of just LGBT pride per Google Ngram and this also shows that LGBT pride is on a downwards trend since 2017, while LGBTQ pride and Queer pride both are on an upwards trajectory, both individually, as well as combined having overtaken just LGBT pride since 2016. The other alternative would be to break from the natural title disambiguation and call the aticle Pride (LGBTQ) in recognition that the name of the article is just Pride and that the prefix or suffix are just disambiguators from Pride (disambiguation) terms. Raladic (talk) 19:13, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – N. Chandrababu Naidu → Nara Chandrababu Naidu – He is known and called as Nara Chandrababu Naidu. Never was he referred to as N. Chandrababu Naidu. Google search also reveals more articles referring to him as Nara Chandrababu Naidu, so it would be appropriate to move the article to the said title. Thewikizoomer (talk) 16:38, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Éric Borel → Cuers massacre – This could go either way, but I think this article would be better scoped as an article on the event and not the perpetrator, given WP:BIO1E. Admittedly, a very large proportion of the coverage on the event is about Borel, so even as an event-based article it will probably still largely be about him, but given that he has no notability outside of it and how the event is covered I believe it will be easier to structure and improve as an event-based article. The common title for the event in French is "Tuerie de Cuers", literally Cuers massacre. There were killings in other locations but the sources call it this. This incident is usually referred to without the year in French given how notorious it was (I think it's the worst non-terror mass shooting in France), but admittedly is not too well known overseas so specifying the year may be necessary. PARAKANYAA (talk) 05:05, 17 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 05:53, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – 2024 Israeli military operation in the West Bank → Operation Summer Camps – While the operation has been given two names (by the two sides) "Operation Summer Camps" appears to be the name most widely used in sources. (Simply look up "Operation Summer Camps" vs "Horror of the Camps operation" in Google news to see what I mean.) Additionally, using the Israeli name of the operation is also in parallel to Operation Defensive Shield, which is, interestingly, the other big large-scale West Bank operation to which this ongoing one has been compared to. Evaporation123 (talk) 04:51, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Maratha Confederacy → Maratha Empire – It was Maratha empire until the death of Madhav Rao in 1772, only after that it was called as Maratha Confederacy. All other sources call it as Maratha Empire. The area of control at peak was from Tamil Nadu to Peshawar, so it was called as Empire. Move was requested multiple times within short period, and last move [29] was closed by a non-admin. This is just revision of history by some wikipedia editors for propaganda, so as to diminish the importance of Marathas in the eyes of readers. Crashed greek (talk) 04:09, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – No 32–04 \ vd → Kremlin report "No 32–04 \ vd" – The current name is too anonymous a combination of letters and numbers to be a title people would remember. A title should give some sort of clue about the topic. The new title gives those numbers some context. Valjean (talk) (PING me) 01:51, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Sievierodonetsk → Siverskodonetsk – On September 19, the Verkhovna Rada renamed a number of settlements as a part of derussification. Yesterday the Chairman of the Rada signed the resolution, thus it comes into force today. Most of the renamed settlements are located on Ukrainian-controlled territory and are too insignificant for the moves to be discussed (some were already moved, e.g. Novomoskovsk → Samar and Chervonohrad → Sheptytskyi). However, in the case of larger settlements that are currently Russian-occupied, I think discussion is necessary, especially for Sievierodonetsk/Siverskodonetsk as it is probably significant enough for WP:COMMONNAME to apply. Shwabb1 ⟨taco⟩ 01:39, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
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- (Discuss) – Supercopa Rei → Supercopa do Brasil – Article frequently moved due to the promotional name (Supercopa Rei), to the detriment of WP:COMMONAME (Supercopa do Brasil). A clearer consensus is needed Svartner (talk) 00:25, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) → Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban – or Man in a Red Turban or Portrait of a Man in a Turban (reverting to the title before an undiscussed move in 2007 suggesting a right to naming deriving from ownership) or Man in a Turban, or at least Portrait of a Man (possible self-portrait) or Portrait of a Man (Van Eyck possible self-portrait). There are several problems in the current title. One is that the disambiguator appears to be a redundant alternative title rather than a type classification or context clarifier. Another is the question mark indicating a lack of confidence about whether the painting's title should be "Self Portrait" or not (or whether the painting fits into the self-portraiture category or not). We shouldn't be using question marks this way. The use of title case and the lack of a hyphen in "Self Portrait" also seem questionable. See also the previous discussion of the title from 2011–2017 on the article talk page. — BarrelProof (talk) 20:11, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Template:WikiProject Essays → Template:WikiProject Wikipedia essays – Per Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia essays. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 18:55, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Hospital-acquired infection → Nosocomial infection – The current title ignores non-hospital related infections. Nosocomial infections also include veterinary practices. Nosocomial infection is also more common on Google Scholar Traumnovelle (talk) 22:10, 8 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 04:52, 16 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 16:15, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Mary Rae Knowling → Mary Roe Knowling – "Roe" is a family name - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Roe-795 - Her father's Death Notice, shows Mary's full name, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NQX-CS1L - Also in the refrences for this article - ref 7 - for the book, The Lives of Robert and Jennie Mullins - https://books.google.co.za/books?id=vjhFygAACAAJ&redir_esc=y - the google books link shows editor's name "Mary-Roe Knowling" - I suspect the error made was in the DSG document which showed the name "Rae" Borisrc (talk) 11:09, 16 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Fathoms Below (talk) 15:36, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Dozer → Dozer (band) – Bulldozer, often shortened to "Dozer", is the primary topic. Move and create WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT. A disambiguation page at Dozer (disambiguation) is also recommended. 162 etc. (talk) 15:03, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – 2019 El Paso shooting → 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting – Per WP:UCRN. Though at the time of the shooting (around 2019) the shooting was more commonly referred to as something in the vein of "El Paso shooting" by reliable sources, in recent years reliable sources trend towards calling it something akin to "El Paso Walmart shooting". Out of 50 articles published since 2020 about the incident, 42 mention Walmart in the title while 8 do not. The 'Walmart' aspect appears to be part of a commonly recognised naming convention, which should be reflected in the page's title. Reliable sources that tended to include 'Walmart' in their titles include CNN, PBS, BBC News, ABC News, AP News, The Independent, the Washington Post, NBC News and others. Local news sources, such as the Texas Tribune and El Paso Times, tended to also refer to 'Walmart' in their titles. I recommend '2019 El Paso Walmart shooting' as it fits other naming conventions. If needed, I can provide several of the referenced articles, though they can be found by Google search. Macxcxz (talk) 11:02, 15 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 01:47, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Baby, The Stars Shine Bright → Baby, the Stars Shine Bright (apparel) – New York Times (link), The Cut (link), and The Mercury News (link) uses the lowercase "t" for "the." Victoria & Albert Museum (link) uses both capitalizations, but there seems to be more of a precedence using the lowercase version. Even the English websites use the lowercase spelling (see the NYC location and SF location). I'm also open for it to be renamed Baby, the Stars Shine Bright (clothing). lullabying (talk) 01:24, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson → Horatio Nelson – Per Britannica and WP:CONCISE there doesn't seem a need for the "1st Viscount Nelson" like Anthony Eden per WP:OBE given he's primary for this term. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:45, 13 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. reading beans 01:21, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – List of Israeli massacres in Gaza 2023–2024 → Israeli massacres during the Israel–Hamas war – Seems like a more put-together title? The introductory text appears to imply documentation extending only within the temporal bounds of the current conflict. Rebestalic[leave a message....] 10:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 10:10, 9 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. reading beans 01:19, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora → Assyrian diaspora – Much like my request to rename "Assyrians/Syriacs in Sweden" to "Assyrians in Sweden", the reasoning applies that the article refers to the same people as simply "Assyrian", while respecting that there are several different identifications for them such as "Syriac", "Chaldean", and "Aramean". Additionally, it would bring the article to the pattern of other articles that talk about the Assyrian diaspora, especially as the article is no longer prone to edit-warring as it was when it was first made. Surayeproject3 (talk) 22:45, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Ibrahim Aqil (Hezbollah) → Ibrahim Aqil – The Hezbollah figure is the obvious WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the name. This is certainly true in terms of news coverage after his assassination today, but also in terms of long-term significance. The other person with this name, a Jordanian taekwondo athlete, is only a minor figure in his sport who appeared at one Olympics. The Hezbollah commander was allegedly a key figure in the 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut and 1983 Beirut barracks bombings with a $7 million bounty on him by the U.S. State Department. — Goszei (talk) 04:10, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- Ibrahim Aqil → Ibrahim Aqil (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – Eryholme–Richmond branch line → ? – Either Richmond branch or Richmond branch line – The line does not have any reliable references calling it Eryholme–Richmond branch line. Plenty of Mirrors and those who have used the name of the article in their webpages.[1][2] The railway was built in 1845 when the junction with the East Coast Main Line was Dalton Junction. This was re-named in 1901 to Eryholme Junction,[3] so by way of comparison, for the first 56 years of its existence, it would not have been called the Eryholme–Richmond branch line. There are different names, but those that state just Richmond branch with a lower case 'b' are: *[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] The North Eastern Railway Civil Engineering Drawings List held at the National Railway Museum, has 22 references to Richmond, 17 of which state Richmond Branch (both capitalised), and others stating Richmond to Darlington, or Richmond to Eryholme.[14] *Just Richmond Branch Railway:[15][12] *Hansard refers to the the line when it was under threat of closure as the Darlington–Richmond Line.[16]
References
- ^ "Eryholme–Richmond branch line". TriplyDB: The Network Effect for Your Data. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ "A Walk to Easby Abbey » Two Dogs and an Awning". Two Dogs and an Awning. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ Hoole, Kenneth (1985). Railway stations of the North East. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. p. 65. ISBN 0-7153-8527-5.
- ^ Body, Geoffrey (1989). Railways of the Eastern Region volume 2. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens. p. 68. ISBN 1-85260-072-1.
- ^ Haigh, A. (1979). Yorkshire railways: including Cleveland and Humberside. Clapham: Dalesman Books. p. 24. ISBN 0-85206-553-1.
- ^ Young, Alan (2015). Lost stations of Yorkshire; the North and East Ridings. Kettering: Silver Link. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-85794-453-2.
- ^ Hoole, Kenneth (1985). Railway stations of the North East. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. p. 48. ISBN 0-7153-8527-5.
- ^ Suggitt, Gordon (2007). Lost railways of North and East Yorkshire. Newbury: Countryside Books. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-85306-918-5.
- ^ Burgess, Neil (2011). The Lost Railway's of Yorkshire's North Riding. Catrine: Stenlake. p. 13. ISBN 9781840335552.
- ^ Blakemore, Michael (2005). Railways of the Yorkshire Dales. Ilkley: Great Northern. p. 54. ISBN 1-905080-03-4.
- ^ "RID mileages". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ a b Lloyd, Chris (1 July 2017). "90 years ago three million people headed north by rail to witness one of the biggest events of the year - a total eclipse of the sun". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ Shannon, Paul (2023). Branch Line Britain. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-39908-990-6.
- ^ "North Eastern Railway Civil Engineering Drawings List" (PDF). railwaymuseum.org.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
Various pages - use the search function for Richmond
- ^ "List of North Yorkshire & North Riding plans of railway lines..." (PDF). archivesunlocked.northyorks.gov.uk. p. 5. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ "Darlington-Richmond Line (Closure) Volume 774: debated on Wednesday 4 December 1968". hansard.parliament.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- Regards. The joy of all things (talk) 21:17, 13 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 04:03, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Lego Racers → Lego Racers (Lego theme) – Primary topic over Lego Racers. The current content of Lego Racers could be moved to Lego Racers (Lego theme), following the same naming scheme as The Lego Batman Movie (Lego theme) is to the primary The Lego Batman Movie. Sceeegt (talk) 19:31, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Bahía Limón → Limon Bay – common name — Karnataka 19:11, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Lynnwood Transit Center → Lynnwood City Center station – Name should reflect the station's actual name, capitalization of "station" is contingent on the discussion at Talk:Symphony station (Sound Transit) LinkLightRail (talk) 04:09, 7 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ASUKITE 16:51, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – 2024 Central European floods → Storm Boris (2024) – Wrong name: Boris affected also Southern Europe (Italy and Greece).-- Carnby (talk) 10:00, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – 2024 Lebanon pager explosions → ? – Following up from last RM, the options for this RM will focus on the specific language in the title. Keep the arguments on WP:TITLE policy. We can always propose additional changes to the title in this section. Awesome Aasim 23:48, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Altaic languages → Altaic hypothesis – Per above This article has been a constant struggle to get the academic consensus to be the focus of the article, particularly in light of many people simply not realizing the Altaic hypothesis isn't actually widely accepted as fact. "Altaic hypothesis" is heavily used in the literature (i.e. here) and allows us to differentiate the sprachbund and language family arguments more clearly in the body of the article. It also means someone looking up the topic on Wikipedia who isn't familiar with it isn't going to be met with the same heading we use for language families followed up immediately by a statement that it isn't likely a genetic language family. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 09:27, 4 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ASUKITE 17:18, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Gyat → Gyatt – "Gyatt" is potentially the more common spelling, at least in my experience online (The provided sources seem split). The Kai Cenat quote in the article describing the word’s expanded popularity from his usage spells it as Gyatt. The disambiguation page currently present at "Gyatt" contains an alternate spelling for guyot that is unsourced and mentioned nowhere on the target article. "Gyat" could merge to "Gyatt", guyot should be removed, and the USS Gyatt linking should be a note at the top. DrewieStewie (talk) 02:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 05:22, 19 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading of Beans 05:28, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- Gyatt → Gyatt (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – Keshi → ? – The singer is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. In the past year, the singer has received a monthly average of 13,607 views, while the eraser has received 654 views. [30] A significant number of views for Keshi also navigate to the page for the singer.[31] मल्ल (talk) 17:58, 9 September 2024 (UTC)— Relisting. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 14:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 01:30, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Michelle Smith → Michelle Smith (swimmer) – There are nine women and one man listed upon the Michelle Smith (disambiguation) page, with no strong indication that the Olympian from 28 years ago has retained historical renown sufficient to dwarf the combined notability of the remaining eight women. As an alternative option, I would support retaining Michelle Smith as primary among the women named "Michelle", but moving Michelle Smith (disambiguation) → Michele Smith. Among the eight women who have English Wikipedia articles, five are named "Michelle" and three are named "Michele", thus dropping the parenthetical qualifier "(disambiguation)" still appears to be relatively evenhanded and users researching the swimmer would not lose their ability to access her entry directly [the two WP:DABMENTIONS are the entry for co-author of Michelle Remembers and the redirect for male sportsman Michele Smith (cyclist)]. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 16:51, 23 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 07:28, 1 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ASUKITE 16:49, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – List of New Testament minuscules (2001–) → List of New Testament minuscules (2001–3017) – or List of New Testament minuscules (2001–2900) or List of New Testament minuscules (2101–2900), where the alternative suggested titles would imply removing some of what's currently in the list. My primary goal is to get rid of the strange combination of the dash followed immediately by a closing parenthesis, which is usually a date range but in this case is not. There are less than 30 titles like that on the English Wikipedia that I could find. Note that there's a duplication of the content of the end of this list in List of New Testament minuscules (2901–). There is also a duplicate of the content of the beginning of this list in List of New Testament minuscules (2001–2100). I don't fully understand how these lists are constructed, but I don't see big transclusions. — BarrelProof (talk) 03:19, 22 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 06:35, 29 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading of Beans 06:50, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – List of national flags of sovereign states → List of national flags – 1. To be consistent with List of national anthems. 2. This is the most concise way of titling the list. (WP:CONCISE) 3. In general English usage, "national flag" refers to the flag of a country, which we consider synonymous with "sovereign state" in the article. Therefore it should be clear that flags of stateless nations are not included. ―Howard • 🌽33 22:22, 10 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 04:44, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Collingwood Blues (2020–) → Collingwood Blues – The qualifying bookend "(2020–)" is unnecessary. The article relates to an existing ice hockey team. Collingwood Blues (1988–2011) is for the defunct team with the same name. The target page is currently a redirect. Buffalkill (talk) 01:22, 29 July 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). – robertsky (talk) 02:55, 2 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Waqar💬 14:39, 10 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Steel1943 (talk) 21:22, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Collingwood Blues → Collingwood Blues (disambiguation) over redirect without leaving a redirect (implied), then WP:G14 delete if unnecessary
- (Discuss) – Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central → AN/MSQ-77 – It is common practice when naming articles for devices which use the American military JETDS naming convention for the article to be either AN/MSQ-77 or including the system name and type like AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central. For many examples, see Category:Military electronics of the United States. This would make the page far easier to locate since most users will search for either "AN/MSQ-77" or "AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central" (the redirect already exists for that one). It is not typical across Wikipedia to place the Manufacturer into the article name, such as Reeves AN/MSQ-77. I am not able to find any examples like that. But I am open to ideas. Please share your thoughts — TadgStirkland401 (TadgTalk) 22:29, 16 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. RodRabelo7 (talk) 11:32, 25 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 12:03, 25 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 04:26, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Attempted assassination of Donald Trump → Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania – Even if the new incident doesn't get a title move it seems clear that "in Pennsylvania" would be a better title per WP:PRECISE to sufficiently differentiate the two incidents. Esolo5002 (talk) 22:48, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Tropical Storm Conson (2021) → Tropical Storm Conson – Can this page be moved to just Tropical Storm Conson? As Daniel boxs stated above, the name was retired after the 2021 Pacific typhoon season. While there was a more notable iteration of Conson last 2010, it was a typhoon. This is the only page that is named "Tropical Storm Conson"— the 2004 and 2010 iterations were typhoons, and the 2016 iteration redirects you to the 2016 typhoon page, so it's a little distinctive compared to the previous Conson iterations. Bugnawfang (talk) 08:28, 8 September 2024 (UTC) Bugnawfang (talk) 08:32, 8 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Bobby Cohn (talk) 12:27, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Sfântu Gheorghe, Transylvania → Sfântu Gheorghe – This page was moved unilaterally after 20 years. I contend it should be moved back, because this is the primary topic. This Sfântu Gheorghe is a city and a county seat, the others are villages. If we must disambiguate, the proper target is “Sfântu Gheorghe, Covasna”, because Transylvania is not an extant administrative unit. Biruitorul Talk 15:40, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Cunning folk traditions and the Latter Day Saint movement → Folk magic and early Mormonism – Mainstream non-apologetic scholarship (Quinn, Vogel) uses term 'folk magic', not the euphemistic 'Cunning folk traditions'. Feoffer (talk) 09:27, 6 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans 10:29, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Muslim grooming gangs in the United Kingdom → Grooming Gang Moral Panic in UK – Last RM was a mess, had only three folks discussing a POV mess of an article. Now that we reverted back before all these POV edits, and more folks have their eyes on this, we should consider appropriate, less inflammatory, names Bluethricecreamman (talk) 16:28, 3 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ASUKITE 16:28, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Moggy → Domestic cat (landrace) – Wikipedia is a worldwide resource. Cats are found worldwide. There is no place for a localized colloquialism to be a MAIN page reference on Wikipedia. I am located in the United States and never once have I ever heard the term “moggy” used to refer to a cat. The merging of Domestic short-haired cat and Domestic long-haired cat was an appropriate move as the only difference is the gene for hair growth. However, I don’t understand why a slang term page was revived from like, 2007 to merge the two pages together. Wikipedia Manual of Style in the Opportunities for Commonality section states that as an international English-speaking Wikipedia, using universally accepted terms is much more appropriate. For example, “to mog” or “mogging” in Gen Alpha terms - see mog. Nobody outside of Britian or Australia even knows what a moggy is. To make things messier, there were previous merges and fights about “moggy” vs. “moggie.” Y’all do not need a page for your local colloquialism. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Opportunities for commonality bullet points 1-4. My new write-up for the beginning of the new article also explains this landrace breed, using hyphenation glossing as is suggested by the Manual of Style: A Domestic shorthair or Domestic longhair cat, sometimes regionally referred to as a moggy, is a landrace breed of cat reproducing without human intervention for type. The vast majority of cats worldwide lack any pedigree ancestry. The landrace can include cats living with humans or in feral colonies. Gene flow moves between the two populations as feral cats are tamed, housecats are released, and free-roaming unneutered cats breed freely. Simmy27star (talk) 11:37, 4 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ASUKITE 16:03, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Iranian Revolution → Iranian revolution – Change to sentence case (WP:AT). Not consistently capped in sources - per WP:NCCAPS and MOS:CAPS. See here. Cinderella157 (talk) 09:37, 11 September 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). Cinderella157 (talk) 03:18, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Qi (Henan) → Qǐ (state) – Currently this is the only article in Category:Ancient Chinese states that isn't disambiguated by the word "state". Several other reasons for the move request: Qi County, Hebi and Qi County, Kaifeng are both in Henan; the 12th-century puppet state Qi was also based in Henan; and several other polities named Qi also covered parts or the whole of Henan (including the Shandong-based Qi (state)). Not saying that the word "state" is in any way precise (it's obviously not), but it's good to be consistent with other articles in the same category. Yinweiaiqing (talk) 19:01, 13 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Waqar💬 08:28, 21 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Fathoms Below (talk) 19:43, 29 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 04:34, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Stanisław Potocki (1659-1683) → Stanisław Potocki (Polish noble, died 1683) – For alignment with WP:NCPDAB, especially to remove the lifespan ranges (especially the one using a hyphen). These people have more specific titles (szlachcic, voivode, etc.), but I think they are not used in English, so I am just suggesting "Polish noble" for all of them. For one of these, we have the birth year, but for the others we do not, so it may be best to consistently use the death year for all of them. Note that Stanisław Potocki (1734–1802) redirects to Józef Potocki (1734/35–1802). This seems to be an artefact of a previous error; see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 13#Stanisław Potocki (1734–1802). Note that there is also a non-disambiguated Józef Potocki. — BarrelProof (talk) 15:02, 30 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Bobby Cohn (talk) 15:29, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Israel–Hamas war → Israel–Gaza war – Despite the move request to Israel-Gaza war being closed as no consensus in February 2024, a lot has changed since then and RS have converged to use this name. This move is long overdue and aligns with the relevant Wikipedia guidelines of WP:COMMONNAME and WP:NAMECHANGE. RS per WP that uses the Israel-Gaza war name as the title of their coverage category: * The Guardian:
Israel-Gaza war
* The Washington Post:Israel-Gaza war
* BBC:Israel-Gaza war
* NPR:Israel-Gaza war
* The Conservation:Israel-Gaza war
* Al Jazeera:Israel's war on Gaza
Other RS that uses the Israel-Gaza war name as the title of their coverage category: * Doctors Without Borders:Israel-Gaza war
* Committee to Protect Journalists:Israel-Gaza conflict
* The National:Israel-Gaza war
* Middle East Eye:Israel's war on Gaza
RS per WP that uses the Israel-Gaza war in their coverage: * Reuters: [32], [33], [34]:Israel-Gaza war
* CBS news: [35]Israel-Gaza war
* Vox: [36], [37]:Israel's war in Gaza
This name change would also align with a third Wikipedia guideline, all five of the WP:CRITERIA one, namely #5 on Consistency, as this would align with Gaza War (2008–2009) and 2014 Gaza war. Makeandtoss (talk) 10:05, 13 August 2024 (UTC) :Update to add other RS mentioning Gaza instead of Hamas in one way or another in at least one instance: * Save the Children: [38]:War in Gaza
as coverage category title * Haaretz Israeli newspaper: [39]:Gaza war
as coverage category title (RS per WP) * Relief Web: Relief Web:Gaza war
* Crisis Group: [40]:Gaza war
* Norwegian Refugee Council: [41]:Gaza conflict
Makeandtoss (talk) 11:38, 16 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. FOARP (talk) 15:12, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel → 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel – I believe that enough time has passed since the last RM (which proposed the simpler "7 October attacks" name and closed with consensus to retain the current title) to re-propose a title change for this article. I believe that "7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel" is the WP:COMMONNAME for this event, as seen in sources such as: * Al Jazeera: "... counter the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, which saw ..." * Bloomberg: "... trapped in Gaza since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, which prompted ..." * CBC: "... around the world since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel of Oct. 7 but are now ..." * CNN: "... from the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel being held ..." * Euracitiv: "... triggered by the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel in which ..." * France24: "Before the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel that triggered ..." * ISW: "... spokesperson claimed that the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel was retaliation ..." * Middle East Eye: "Following the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel and subsequent ..." * NPR: "... Palestinian armed groups since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel that set off the war ..." * NYTimes: "... including some who participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, and that ..." * Reuters: "... were involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel that precipitated ..." * Times of Israel: "... during and after the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel." * The Conversation: "... participated in the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, which resulted ... " * WaPo: "Since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, restrictions have ..." Many sources simply say "7 October" or "October 7 attacks" instead of spelling out the full name, but I believe that while "7 October attacks" could be a more COMMON name, I think that it fails WP:AT#Precision in favor of "7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel." DecafPotato (talk) 00:43, 15 June 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. — Amakuru (talk) 14:09, 9 July 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. FOARP (talk) 07:27, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Discuss) – Dodola and Perperuna → Rainmaking (Southeast Europe) – see the discussion above. We also have the generic Rainmaking (ritual) page (techical nomination; no vote) --Altenmann >talk 20:15, 22 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ASUKITE 21:16, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
Possibly incomplete requests
- Talk:Decapod – Decapod is requested for move to Decapod (disambiguation), which could make the disambiguation malplaced. Has a primary redirect been specified?
References
See also
- Wikipedia:Requested moves/Article alerts, which includes a list of recently closed, as well as open discussions