Wikipedia:Requested moves

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.
• 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.

Uncontroversial proposals

Only list here proposals that are clearly uncontroversial but require administrator help to complete. Things like capitalization and spelling mistakes would be appropriate here. If there is any prior discussion as to the name of the article please link to it. If there is any possibility that the proposed page move could be opposed by anyone, do not list it in this section. If the move location appears as a red link you should be able to move the article using the move button of the top of the article's page and don't need to use this page

Please use {{subst:WP:RM2|Old page name|Requested name|Reason for move}} for uncontroversial moves only; do not copy, paste, and edit previous entries. No dated sections are necessary, and no templates on the article's talk page are necessary.

If your request was not fulfilled, and was removed from this section, please relist it in the other proposals section below.

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• Besa Scouts Albania → Beslidhja Skaut Albania —(Discuss)— The renaming of Beslidhja Skaut Albania was discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting/Translations#Albania with the result that the organization's name is not translatetable. User:English Subtitle move the Article to a made up translation and vandalized the redirects afterwards. —jergen 07:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

• The South Wales Borderers → South Wales Borderers — Move per WP:NCD —RJASE1 06:45, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• The Royal Regiment of Scotland → Royal Regiment of Scotland — Move per WP:NCD —RJASE1 07:17, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• The Royal Westminster Regiment → Royal Westminster Regiment — Move per WP:NCD —RJASE1 16:57, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers → Royal Regiment of Fusiliers — Move per WP:NCD —RJASE1 17:16, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• The Gordon Highlanders → Gordon Highlanders — Move per WP:NCD —RJASE1 18:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Saskatchewan Dragoons → The Saskatchewan Dragoons — This is the unit's official name (including "The"), see discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Canadian military history task force#Unit naming conventions and WP:NCD. —RJASE1 03:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada → The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) — This is the unit's official name, see discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Canadian military history task force#Unit naming conventions and WP:NCD. —RJASE1 17:38, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• William Randolph Hearst II → William Randolph Hearst, Jr. — William Randolph Hearst II and William Randolph Hearst, Jr. are two different people, and this article is about William Randolph Hearst, Jr. There is a redirect at William Randolph Hearst, Jr. which keeps me from making the move myself. —Eastmain 02:05, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

  Comment. There are six generations of William Randolph Hearst, three with articles. Sr. and Jr. change with time. I is Sr. and II is Jr. until I dies, then II becomes Sr. and III becomes Jr. Sr. and Jr. are only unambiguous when there are only two generations. So please keep as is. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 02:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC). Above completed Please help with second part of the move below:

• William Randolph Hearst I → William Randolph Hearst. I was going to make William Randolph Hearst a disambig page for the three articles, but there are too many articles to redirect, and it was easier to create William Randolph Hearst (disambiguation) than to move all the ones for I. I have moved any that belong to II and III to the proper person. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 06:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• The British Museum to British Museum – Move per WP:NCD. [talk to the] HAM 21:39, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Remo (Company) → Remo — "Remo" is the name of the company, there are no conflicting issues as the Remo page is currently a redirect to Remo (Company). —Pele Merengue 22:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

  Looking at Remo (Disambiguation) (which should use a lower-case 'd'), it's not clear to me that Remo (Company) (which should use a lower-case 'c') is the primary use. Why not move the disambiguation page back to the main title? -GTBacchus^(talk) 00:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

• John Shaw (disambiguation) → John Shaw — conform to Wikipedia guidelines for naming of disambiguation pages. John Shaw is currently just a redirect (but with other page history) to the former. —Colin MacLaurin 06:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

• Mountain View College (disambiguation) → Mountain View College — conform to Wikipedia naming conventions —Colin MacLaurin 06:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

• Copper Belt → Copperbelt — whether referring to the name of the Zambian province specifically or to the mining area of Zambia/Katanga in general, the spelling is one word. You never see it as two words in the Copperbelt towns. Google searches throw up 4 times as many pages for 'Copperbelt' as 'Copper Belt' and most of the latter pages refer to belts made of copper or copper mining areas in Vermont and Arizona. I tried to rename the page to 'Copperbelt' but someone has already redirected a page of that name "Copper Belt" and I can't do it. User:Rexparry sydney 07:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

• Talk:Korean hwan → Talk:South Korean hwan - the main article is South Korean hwan. --Hello World! 15:18, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

• The House On Maple Street → The House on Maple Street — Move to correct capitalization, as per

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Nonetheless, any future modifications of this guideline should be implemented only after consensus for the change has been achieved.

Previous discussions

A short list of discussions from 2004 and 2005 is at Wikipedia talk:Risk disclaimer/Archive 1 § More disclaimer templates. Some older discussions are at Wikipedia talk:Risk disclaimer or in the templates for deletion archives.

See also

• Wikipedia:Perennial proposals
• Wikipedia:Spoiler
• Wikipedia:Templates for discussion
• Wikipedia:Content labeling proposal (failed proposal)

Talk page disclaimer templates

• Template:Metatalk
• Template:Censor
• Template:Not a forum and standard capitalization rules. —Elizabennet | talk 19:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

• At War With The Army → At War with the Army — capitalization —Jogers (talk) 20:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Other proposals

All of the proposals listed below need to have a discussion set up on talk page of the article to be moved. Please use the template {{subst:WP:RM|Old Page Name|Requested name|Reason for move}} and, if necessary, create a new dated section.

30 January 2007

• Labour Party (Netherlands) → Partij van de Arbeid (Discuss) — The party is called 'Partij van de Arbeid'. Though Labour Party is the English translation, that is not what the Dutch party is called. —JackSparrow Ninja 00:23, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

  Moved from uncontroversial because I oppose the move. —  AjaxSmack  01:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

• Edgar_Dean_Mitchell → Edgar_Mitchell —(Discuss)— Article title should simply be his first name, last name to be consistent with similarly named astronaut articles (see Eugene Cernan request below}. —Bart 22:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
• John_Watts_Young → John_Young —(Discuss)— Article title should simply be his first name, last name to be consistent with similarly named astronaut articles (see Eugene Cernan request below}. —Bart 22:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
• Charles_Moss_Duke,_Jr. → Charles_Duke —(Discuss)— Article title should simply be his first name, last name to be consistent with similarly named astronaut articles (see Eugene Cernan request below}. —Bart 22:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
• Graham Bauer → Graem Bauer —(Discuss)— "Graem" is the spelling used in the show. —Serge 20:51, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
• Eugene_Andrew_Cernan → Eugene_Cernan —(Discuss)— Article title should simply be his first name, last name to be consistent with similarly named astronaut articles —Bart 18:06, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure how the article about Gemini and Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan get to be called by his full first-middle-last name in the first place. Neil Armstrong's article is just Neil Armstrong. Alan Bean's article is just Alan Bean. Alan Shepard's article is just Alan Shepard. I strongly recommend that the entire article about Eugene Cernan be transferred to Eugene Cernan and that the Eugene Andrew Cernan page either be made a redirect page or deleted entirely.

• Crusaders → Crusaders (Super rugby franchise) —(Discuss)— Name should redirect to Crusades as primary reference; team article will then follow the format of other Super rugby franchises (Blues, Hurricanes) etc —SigPig |^{SEND - OVER} 17:13, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
• Twilight Watch (Russian novel) → Dusk Watch (Russian novel) —(Discuss)— Official name. See also this item on Amazon.com —Belomoeff 13:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
• The Holocaust → Holocaust —(Discuss)— As per WP:NCD, we should avoid the use of the word "the" if it is not an official name or a title of a work ("the" is usually not capitalized). As well, we should avoid "the" unless it turns what would otherwise be a general term into a specific one. This works for pentagon vs. The Pentagon, and crown vs. The Crown, where the generic terms gain some meaning with "the", but in this case, 99% of Google searches for "Holocaust" (without "the") refer to the World War II Holocaust. The term is also sometimes used without the word "the" (e.g. "Holocaust survivors"). Finally, Holocaust already redirects here. —Bssc81 04:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
• Palatinate → Electoral Palatinate —(Discuss)— Palatinate is sufficiently ambiguous with no one meaning predominant —  AjaxSmack  01:50, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Palatinate (disambiguation) → Palatinate
• Corruption (grammar) → Corruption (linguistics) —(Discuss)— Article deals with all forms of linguistic corruption, not just grammatical corruption. —  AjaxSmack  01:50, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
• Barbarism (grammar) → Barbarism (linguistics) —(Discuss)— Article deals with all forms of linguistic "barbarism," not just grammatical barbarism. —  AjaxSmack  01:50, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
• Palatinate of the Rhine → Palatinate (region) —(Discuss)— Current title is ambiguguous and is not the principal name for this contemporary region. —  AjaxSmack  01:50, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
• St Johnstone F.C. → St. Johnstone F.C. —(Discuss)— Move revert request. Full stop/period should be included per the club's official website. The previous attempt to move it seems to have been done erroneously. —Dudesleeper · Talk 16:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

29 January 2007

• Waldemar Matuska → Waldemar Matuška —(Discuss)— Topic name does not match article name, incorrect spelling. Redirect from us-ascii is /was already present —≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 23:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• The Arcade Fire → Arcade Fire —(Discuss)— There is a longish debate over using the article for this band, as seen on the Talk page. The band is inconsistent itself but some consensus needs to be made on Wikipedia —Rogwan 21:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Forensics → Forensic science —(Discuss)— I cannot do the move because a redirect page of the desired name exists (but there is no Talk page in the way of this move). The current name is ambiguous because the primary definition of the word "forensics" has a different meaning, while the widely used term "forensic science" has a clear and unambiguous meaning. Indeed, the article starts off by attempting to justify the use of word "forensics". I proposed this move on Talk:Forensics; one other user supported it and there was no opposition. —orlady 18:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Neon Sollars railway station → Neen Sollars railway station — Was moved to current title some months ago by a user who thought it was the correct spelling, but all available evidence (e.g., Google) strongly suggests that "Neen" is correct. —Russ (talk) 18:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Polish Expedition to Kiev → Kiev Expedition (1018) —(Discuss)— Concise title with a date to disambig between other expeditions to that city (including more than one by the Poles). —Appleseed (Talk) 18:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Ancient Roman technology → Roman technology — (Discuss) See my arguments there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gun Powder Ma (talk • contribs) 13:15, January 29, 2007 (UTC).

• Level of support for evolution → Endorsement and rejection of evolution —(Discuss) - According to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (precision), this article has a very poor title. Note that both "level" and "support" are quite ambiguous. Would you know from the current title that this article would be about polls and open letters regarding both the endorsement and rejection of evolution in the context of the creation-evolution controversy? A number of the other editors have proposed equally ambiguous titles, the alternative is the only one that has seemed to have had at least a moderate (if somewhat guarded) support. Another idea floated was Popularity of evolution or Popular support for evolution, but I believe those two titles to be more ambiguous than the proposed one here. Note that there are a lot of ways to write an imprecise title to this article, but precision is absolutely necessary because we need to make sure that people are not misled in, for example, a POV-pushing fashion. For example, the simple title "support for evolution" rightly redirects to evidence for evolution because evolution's support isn't verifiably tied to opinion polls and open letters but rather to the scientific evidence. --ScienceApologist 05:45, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Trinity College, Dublin → Trinity College Dublin —(Discuss)— The version without a comma is correct (as college authorities have corrected me on this matter). I know that the Acts of Parliament used the comma in the past, but I think it is be a relic. The official college branding omits the comma (TCD Trademark Policy, Procedures for trademark usage). This is confused by the fact that a Google search for TCD yields a link with a description including the comma, but I trust the official documentation over the web-developers' implementation. There are several instances where the comma can be justified; specifically, I think when the context is clear and it is called "Trinity College", the addition of Dublin after a comma to denote place in a caption is acceptable (just like "Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin" or "CN Tower, Toronto." I believe this distinction is an important one to make if we are after accuracy, and I think that the page should be renamed. —03:50, 29 January 2007 (UTC)Jonnny7

• Sara Ramírez → Sara Ramirez —(Discuss)— Clearly the wrong name under Wikipedia naming conventions. The editors of this article got into a big squabble about not having proper sourcing for the fact that a character she plays known as "Callie" had the full name "Calliope", insisting on reliable sources, but there are absolutely no sources, never have been, reliable or otherwise, for this "Sara Ramírez" spelling. She is clearly not only best known in English, but almost always known in English as "Sara Ramirez". She is known as "Sara Ramirez" on her own web site cited in the article. She is known as "Sara Ramirez" in all four other sources cited in the article, the Internet Movie Database, the Internet Broadway Database, the TV.com site, and the Yahoo! Movies site. There is "credited as" alternatives listed in the IMDB listing, something routinely done there. As it stands now, there is nothing to even indicate any legitimacy in including the Ramírez as a variant spelling in the intro, let alone for using it in the rest of the text or for it occupying the one slot available for the article's name. —Gene Nygaard 03:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Mushi Sanban (Codename: Kids Next Door) → Mushi Sanban —(Discuss)— Currently, there's no people of the same name. Therefore, that article's title should be "Mushi Sanban". —JSH-alive^{talk to me}_{see my works}^{mail to me} 02:22, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Midway Airport → Chicago Midway International Airport —(Discuss)- Adding Chicago to the proposed move has also been adressed (see reasons below for (Midway Airport → Midway International Airport). — Sox23 00:04, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Coritani → Corieltauvi —(Discuss)— Inscription evidence discovered about twenty years ago (as mentioned in the article), suggests the correct form of this tribal name is Corieltauvi (currently a redirect). This is now generally accepted and Coritani is only used in older works. The key articles on the subject are Tomlin's 'Roman Leicester, a Corrigendum: For Coritani should we read Corieltauvi?' in Transactions of the Leicester Archaeological & Historical Society 48 and 'Non Coritani sed Corieltauvi' in the Antiquaries' Journal 63 (both 1983) —Walgamanus 22:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

28 January 2007

• Soft Light (The X-Files) → Soft Light — TV naming conventions - move and add a dab notice, but there is no need for Soft Light to redirect to Soft light and force dab in the episode article title. —WikidSmaht (talk) 05:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

  Oppose speedy rename for soft light. I think this should be debated, as I think people would expect the soft light article and not an episode article. 70.55.84.145 05:38, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

  While opposed as well, I won;t discuss it here as per policy. However, to explain the above comment, it should be noted that there is no notice of the proposed move at either of the affected pages, nor any sign of a discussion section. I have since started one at Talk:Soft Light (The X-Files). --Ckatz^chat_spy 07:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

  Moved from #Uncontroversial proposals, because it's clearly not uncontroversial. -GTBacchus^(talk) 23:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Reggaetón → Reggaeton — The word Reggaeton is a merging of non Spanish words as used by Hispanics, and thus does not require an accent mark - some journalists accidentally use the accent mark, but the artists themselves do not and an accented version does not appear on reggaeton album covers. Attempted a move to a title without the accent, but that title exists as a redirect back to the page with an accent. —TacoPimp 22:23, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

  Moved from #Uncontroversial proposals. Looking at both page histories, I see that this is clearly not uncontroversial. -GTBacchus^(talk) 22:34, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels -> Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan) -(Discuss)- See discussion. Georgia guy 22:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• World Trade Center → World Trade Center (New York) —(Discuss)— Per WP:BIAS —- Jack (talk) 21:02, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• End Meridian → 180th meridian —(Discuss)— "End Meridian" is a neologism. 180th meridian was moved there without discussion. —Lasunncty 20:02, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Nicene Christianity → Late Antique Christianity —(Discuss)— lostcaesar (talk · contribs) attempted to do a cut-and-paste move, stating the new title was more academically correct. I'm bringing it here for wider input. —-- nae'blis 18:11, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Sheffield Midland station → Sheffield railway station —(Discuss)— The current name of the station is just Sheffield so the article should be of that name. Sheffield Midland should be mentioned as part of the Sheffield railway station article. Needs admin assistance as Sheffield railway station is currently a redirect to Sheffield Midland station. I suggest that Sheffield Midland station should be a redirect to the main article which should be name Sheffield railway station. —Adambro 16:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Konstantinas Sirvydas → Constantinus Szyrwid —(Discuss)— The person in question has at least two names in modern use: the Lithuanian name of Konstantinas Sirvydas and the Polish name of Konstanty Szyrwid. That's quite typical for people of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who were either of mixed ancestry or simply used both Polish and their local language (be it Lithuanian, Ruthenian, Russian or any Tatar languages). However, in this context it seems that the person in question did not know the Lithuanian name and it was coined long after he was dead, just to make him sound more Lithuanian.
  Half a year ago I asked for some documents to back up the current title of that page, specifically a single instance of usage of Konstantinas Sirvydas. However, no sources have been provided. Instead I was able to find two original issues of books by the person and it seems he himself was using the Polish version of his surname (Szyrwid)[1][2]. However, as Polish names seem to be problematic to some modern Lithuanians, I suggest to move it to his Latin name instead. This way both the Poles and Lithuanians shouls be happy. Besides, when using Google Books Szyrwid beats Sirvydas at least 3:1, even if we include certain Donna M. Sirvydas, a renown dentist of the same surname. //Halibutt 15:32, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Shortcuts → Wikipedia:List of Shortcuts —(Discuss)— This article is a listing of shortcuts, Wikipedia:Shortcut is a description of what shortcuts actually are. Wouldn't it be less confusing to move them to less similar names? —- Jack (talk) 13:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC) - Jack (talk) 13:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Al-Kindi → Talk:Al-Kindī —(Discuss)— There is a discussion on the Talk page, but it's stalled. The main argument against sdepends upon a claim that "al-Kindi" is the more common form, but appeals to Googled evidence by an editor who now admits that he can't actually look at the relevant evidence. Since then, no-one has contributed. More eyes and discussion would be welcome. —Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 12:45, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Sergio Valente (soccer) → Duda (footballer) —(Discuss)— Everyone know (and only) he is Duda, the nickname. —Matthew_hk tc 10:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Hamide Bıkcın Tosun → Hamide Bıkçın Tosun —(Discuss) - Typo in namespace CeeGee 10:45, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• .hack//frägment → .hack//fragment —(Discuss)— Per WP:NC(UE). The umlaut is only an approximation of the reversed umlaut in the logo and official statements seem to use a normal a instead. —— Ashmodai ^{(talk · contribs)} 10:37, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• January 27, 2007 Iraq War protest → January 27, 2007 anti-war protest —(Discuss)— This requested move will bring this article's name in line with other similar articles about anti-war protests. We already have February 15, 2003 anti-war protest, March 20, 2003 anti-war protest, and September 24, 2005 anti-war protest. This brings this article in line to what seems to be the consensus on how we title articles regarding anti-war protests. —SchuminWeb (Talk) 09:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Hán Tự → Han Tu —(Discuss)— Per WP:NC(UE), articles should be named using the Latin alphabet. This article uses the Vietnamese alphabet. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 02:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC) —Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 02:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Chữ Nôm → Chu Nom —(Discuss)— Per WP:NC(UE), articles should be named using the Latin alphabet. This article uses the Vietnamese alphabet. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 02:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC) —Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 02:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

27 January 2007

• Sunderland Railway station → Sunderland station —(Discuss)— Both a minline station and also served by Tyne and Wear Metro (which is not a tram) —Simply south 23:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Venceslaus II of Bohemia → Wenceslaus II of Bohemia —(Discuss)— Why was this moved? Wenceslaus is the English spelling and the ducal articles conform to it. Srnec 23:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Venceslas I of Bohemia → Wenceslaus I of Bohemia —(Discuss)— Why was this moved? Wenceslaus is the English spelling and the ducal articles conform to it. Srnec 23:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Paper prototypes → paper prototyping —(Discuss)— Swap page and redirect page to match use on page. —Tobias Bergemann 07:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Midway Airport → Midway International Airport —(Discuss)- For one, Midway's official website refers to the airport as "Midway International Airport", and second, there was a new customs/immigration facility that was installed in the terminal development project, making Midway an International Airport. — Sox23 04:48, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• Half-truths → Half-truth —(Discuss)— should move to singular title per Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Prefer singular nouns —WikiSlasher 03:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

• My Parents Are Aliens → My Parents are Aliens —(Discuss)— Someone had moved it to a different name and it was then moved back to the wrong name. —AxG 00:19, 27 January 2007 (UTC) AxG ^(talk) _{(guest book)} 00:19, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

26 January 2007

• Talk:24 (season 1) -- Each 24 season is a distinct story named Day One, Day Two, etc. --Serge 23:05, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
  • 24 (season 1) → 24 - Day One
  • 24 (season 2) → 24 - Day Two
  • 24 (season 3) → 24 - Day Three
  • 24 (season 4) → 24 - Day Four
  • 24 (season 5) → 24 - Day Five
  • 24 (season 6) → 24 - Day Six

• Tiranë District → Tirana District —(Discuss)— Move from the Albanian name of the city to the English one, Tirana. See the "Simple tests" sub-section in the talk page —Evv 21:24, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

• Tiranë County → Tirana County —(Discuss)— Move from the Albanian name of the city to the English one, Tirana. See the "Simple tests" sub-section in the talk page.
  Although in principle this move makes sense to me (c.f. Talk:Tiranë District), I'm not entirely sure yet, and would like to hear other arguments. —Evv 21:24, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

• Francisco Javier Farinós → Javier Farinós —(Discuss)— common known as Javier Farinós —Matthew_hk tc 17:41, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

• Michel Regnier → Greg (comics) —(Discuss)— Little known real name to famous pseudonym, redirect from previous occupant exists —MURGH ^disc. 15:00, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

25 January 2007

• Guantánamo Bay detainment camp‎ → Guantánamo Bay detention camp‎ —(Discuss)— move to most commonly used name, and one used by US military in describing. —Carwil 21:46, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Administrative Review Board (military) → Administrative Review Board —(Discuss)— Another wikipedian moved Administrative Review Board to Administrative Review Board (military) and created a stub article Administrative Review Board (Labor). There are two articles that had linked to Administrative Review Board that should have referenced the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board. And there are almost 400 articles that link to Administrative Review Board that should reference the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants's Administrative Review Board. I believe the convention is that the person who moved ARB to ARB (military) should have gone and edited the ~400 articles so they didn't point to the new disambiguation page they left at Administrative Review Board. If the person doing that editing doesn't use automated tools that would be almost two days work. Unnecessary work IMO. As a stopgap I created Administrative Review Board (disambiguation) and changed Administrative Review Board to be a redirection to Administrative Review Board (military). Cheers! —Geo Swan 21:22, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Asif Iqbal (detainee) → Asif Iqbal (Guantanamo detainee 87) —(Discuss)— This article was previously named Asif Iqbal (Guantanamo detainee 87). This is consistent with several dozen other Guantanamo captives. Many of those Guantanamo captive's names collided with the names of other Guantanamo captives. I gave the rest of them similar names, for consistency and predictability. Another wikipedian thought Asif Iqbal (Guantanamo detainee 87) was too verbose. I felt this name failed to provide enough details to distinguish this individual from other Asif Iqbals who were also prisoners. The other wikipedian disputed that this was likely to ever be a problem. But it turned out that there was another Asif Iqbal imprisoned because he was suspected of terrorism. So, I believe the article should be restored to the previous name. — Geo Swan 21:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Peter Arne (actor) → Peter Arne —(Discuss)— Peter Arne is currently a disambiguation page listing actor Peter Arne and another Peter Arne, who was a murder victim. However, the "murder victim" refers to the actor who was himself the victim of an unsolved murder in 1983. —MadMax 20:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Joseph Soloveitchik → Joseph B. Soloveitchik —(Discuss)— His name is most commonly used and recognized with his middle initial included. —DLand^TALK 14:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Aharon Leib Shteinman → Aharon Leib Steinman —(Discuss)— Although his name is universally pronounced with a sh sound, the most commonly used spelling is Steinman. —DLand^TALK 14:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Main Page → Portal:Main page —(Discuss)— Not an article, is a portal, contradicts Wikipedia's policy. Only reason last one closed is because of WP:NOT (as in democracy) and the RM was flawed with confusion about whether it would be at Wikipedia:Main page or Portal:Main page. While this move is highly controversial, it needs to be done as to prevent contradiction to Wikipedia policy. This will not create hundreds of broken links - not many pages redirect to Main Page any way and bots can fix redirects over time. —09:16, 11 January 2007 (UTC)--Hamedog_Talk|^@

  Relisting; discussion is ongoing. -GTBacchus^(talk) 07:51, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Ethnic Japanese → Nikkei people —(Discuss)— Current name violates WP:OR and WP:V (its unsourced and contrived), new name is established academically [3][4] and used within the English language, despite beliefs of opposition. Evidence of common use is provided on talk page. —falsedef 03:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Ishin Nishio → Nisio Isin —(Discuss)— While Ishin Nishio follows Wikipedia's naming conventions, this author's penname was designed to be a palindrome, and appeared as Nisio Isin on the copyright page at the back of his novels. It is his legal, official romanized name, and should not be spelled in any other fashion. —Doceirias 02:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Backlog

Move dated sections here after five days have passed.

23 January 2007

• Hikari no Densetsu → Legend of Light —(Discuss)— Inconsistant naming with List of Legend of Light characters —Squilibob 07:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose: I contest this move. The title "Legend of Light" is an unofficial translation. It is policy to use romaji titles when no official translation has been given. List of Legend of Light characters should instead be moved to List of Hikari no Densetsu characters--SeizureDog 07:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

    Moved from uncontroversial section. -GTBacchus^(talk) 22:50, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

    • Comment - That's fair enough. Either way is fine as long as they're consistantly named. --Squilibob 06:38, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

• Iron maiden (disambiguation) → iron maiden —(Discuss)— Move originally proposed as uncontroversial by M3tal H3ad with reason: "Moved this page after reading the discussion on it (should be Iron maiden), need an admins help to remove it back, thanks." Uncontroversial nature of the move contested by myself, with reason "There's a clear controversy about this move on the article's talk page, with the previous request closed as "No Consensus". It should be discussed through the normal channels.", and PC78 with reason "You'd need to re-open the debate for this one." Debate moved to "Controversial" secton by GTBacchus. This is a procedural completion of the formal nomination process. —Tevildo 16:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

• Microsoft Office Open XML → Office Open XML —(Discuss)— The article refers to the format in general and not to a specific version by Micrsoft or even only to the standardized version by Ecma —hAl 19:06, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• Xiao Xian Chun → Xiaoxian Empress — (Discuss) — Xiao Xian Chun, etc., are not the standard names for this type of royalty in the English language literature. There are a whole series of articles on Qing empress that need to be moved. I have listed a number of them below and will keep adding. --Niohe 04:56, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Xiao Yi Chun → Xiaoyi Empress
  • Xiao Jing Xian → Xiaojing Empress
  • Xiao De Xian → Xiaode Empress
  • Xiao Sheng Xian → Xiaosheng Empress
  • Xiao Quan Cheng → Xiaoquan Empress
  • Xiao Shen Cheng → Xiaoshen Empress
  • Xiao He Rui → Xiaohe Empress
  • Xiao Shu Rui → Xiaoshu Empress
  • Xiao Gong Ren → Xiaogong Empress

  Discussion is ongoing; relisting to give them a few more days. -GTBacchus^(talk) 05:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

22 January 2007

• University of Wisconsin (disambiguation) → University of Wisconsin —(Discuss)— Reverting move which ignored the previous consensus obtained without coming to RM —Andrewa 22:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

• Journey to the Center of the Earth → Journey to the Centre of the Earth —(Discuss)— Jules Verne was French, so European spellings should apply as per WP:MOS (which clearly states that varieties of English should be used in accordance with the subject of the page) —EuroSong ^talk 19:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

• Mario López → Mario Lopez —(Discuss)— Official website uses his name without an accent. While other sources (IMDB, TV.com, etc.) include the accent, if his official site doesn't stylize his name that way, that could be considered definitive. Another editor has removed all instances of the accent in the article. —Tinlinkin 10:57, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

• Disaster film → Disaster movie —(Discuss)— These are commonly know as Disaster movies. Some editors want to impose the guideline name for individual films which says to use film. However this guideline does not apply to, nor should it, to genre classes of films. This should be moved to the same name as the category to end any confusion. —Vegaswikian 00:27, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

21 January 2007

• Gamekeeper's Thumb → UCL tear (Discuss)— this quirky, archaic name is confined to parts of the UK -- House of Scandal 22:11, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• Sea star → Starfish —(Discuss)— this move was done about 1.5 years ago, without consulting WP:RM. The name "sea star" seems to be a new term in order to correct the fact that a starfish is not actually a fish; however, it's not nearly the most common term: google gets 6 mil. hits for starfish: [5], and sea star gets under 1 million: [6] —Patstuart^talk|edits 19:49, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• Frölunda HC → Frölunda Indians —(Discuss)— Commonest and official name. —Mais oui! 16:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• Dino Crisis (video game) → Dino Crisis —(Discuss)— No need for disambiguation. There's only one Dino Crisis and it's a video game. —05:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)Jonny2x4

• Wycliffe → Wycliffe (disambiguation) — (Discuss) - Then have Wycliffe redirect to John Wycliffe, per primary usage —Patstuart^talk|edits 18:09, 10 January 2007 (UTC)}

• Relistling. Patstuart^talk|edits 04:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• Nike → Nike (disambiguation) —(Discuss)— Make room for Nike to become a redirect to Nike, Inc.. Listing here because there has been previous debate on the topic. —cmh^TC 14:41, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

• Relisting. Patstuart^talk|edits 04:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• Gawler railway line, Adelaide → Gawler Central railway line, Adelaide —(Discuss)— It is referred to by the operators as both Noarlunga line and Noarlunga Centre line, likewise the Gawler Line as Gawler Central line. This move is to standardise how Adelaide's rail lines are referred to. Conversely, Noarlunga Centre railway line, Adelaide can be moved to Noarlunga railway line, Adelaide. —AtD 12:21, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

• Relisting. Patstuart^talk|edits 04:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• Kids Next Door Organization → Kids Next Door —(Discuss)— This fictional organisation refers themselves as simply "Kids Next Door", not "Kids Next Door Organization". —JSH-alive^{talk to me}_{see my works}^{mail to me} 14:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

• Relisted. Patstuart^talk|edits 04:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• Nightmare of You → Nightmare Of You —(Discuss)— Correct formatting for the band name. See the talk page, where several "official" references are linked to, and nobody has objected since I linked to them —137.222.10.67 01:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

20 January 2007

• Scarborough → Scarborough, North Yorkshire —(Discuss)— The place in Ontario has a population of 600,000, the place in England has a population of 50,000 —Fishhead64 22:27, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment perhaps Scarborough can be turned into a disambiguation page. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 07:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid/draft version → Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid —(Discuss)— current article is too long and needs splitting; cross-linkage already incorporated. Considerable discussion about consensus is on the current article talk page Talk:Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid#Consensus_reached?; have copied and posted it on Talk:Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid/draft version#Requested_move, where it can continue (as per request format). This article is currently tagged "controversial." It is not entirely clear whether or not consensus has been reached yet. --NYScholar 10:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

• Scout Association of Angola → Associação de Escuteiros de Angola —(Discuss)— The English translation does not comply with WP:UE since it is not commonly used; generally Scouting organizations are referred to by the "native" names by both world Scouting bodies (WOSM and WAGGGS). English translations given by these institutions are only for understanding and differ even on the same website. For more details see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting/Translations. This article and the following examples were moved to an unsourced translation by an possible sockpuppet without relevant contribution on the discussion; after the move the mover vandalized the redirects so that they can't be overwritten. —jergen 10:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
  PS: The mover didn't change any content in the articles text (not even the lead giving in some cases a different translation) nor the categories). This looks clearly like vandalism. --jergen 10:47, 20 January 2007 (UTC)]

  Oppose English terms should be preferred unless it is problematic to produce a reliable translation, which is not the case here. Sumahoy 21:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Austria → Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs —(Discuss)— as above --jergen 10:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Oppose as above. Sumahoy 21:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Brazilian Scouts Association → União dos Escoteiros do Brasil —(Discuss)— as above --jergen 10:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Oppose again as above. Sumahoy 21:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Scout Association of Bolivia → Asociación de Scouts de Bolivia —(Discuss)— as above --jergen 10:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Oppose once again as above. Sumahoy 21:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

19 January 2007

• Conservatism in the United States → American Conservatism —(Discuss)— American Conservatism is the usual term and was moved by mistake without a discussion, under the mistaken impression it was "closely related" to "American Liberalism" (It deals with different material and people) Rjensen 09:26, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

18 January 2007

• Image of Muhammad in the West → Christian view of Muhammad —(Discuss)— The new name more accurately reflects the content of the article, "view" is less ambiguous than "image," and the new name parallels the name for the Islamic view of Jesus article. —Nick Graves 21:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• Erich Laxmann → Erik Laxman —(Discuss)- I think we should use the Swedish form of this person's name, and not the German. Erik Laxman is also the name under which this person is known in Japanese history.--Bothnia 16:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. → AT&T Wireless —(Discuss)— no reason for move; Cingular will NOT be renamed to AT&T Wireless, per news reports —Mhking 14:26, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• Hot Coffee mod → Hot Coffee controvesy —(Discuss)— The mod itself doesn't appear to be the actual center of the controvesy. In fact, much of the attention and criticism are towards the hidden minigame, San Andreas and Rockstar Games. The title also sidelines the methods used on game consoles versions (cheating devices, not mods) to unlock the minigame. ╫ ２５ ^{◀RingADing▶} 13:57, 18 January 2007 (UTC) ╫

• List of wizards in fantasy → Wizard (fantasy) —(Discuss)— "List of wizards in fantasy" originally was "Wizard (fantasy)"; a Wikipedian nominated it for deletion, the decision was "keep" to maintain the edit history, and the Wikipedian then did an end run about the deletion process by moving it and then creating a new "Wizard (fantasy)" without its edit history —Goldfritha 02:53, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

17 January 2007

• Vlachs of Serbia → Timok Vlachs —(Discuss)— The current article at Vlachs of Serbia deals not only with the Vlachs of Serbia but also with the ones in Bulgaria as well. In fact the article describes the Vlachs living in the Timok river valley region( a region in both Serbia and Bulgaria). —Dapiks 21:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC) Dapiks 21:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

• St. Florian's Gate → Florian Gate — (Discuss)— The original name of the article: Florian Gate, also quoted by Encyclopaedia Britannica as such [7] reflects not only the English language convention, but also the original Polish language version of Brama floriańska (Florian Gate). The renamed article is now being defended by the same Wikipedian who introduced the changeover. Please comment. --Poeticbent  talk  15:54, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

  This move is clearly controversial (see the talk page). Proto::► 15:47, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

• Talk:Brussels-Capital Region#Names survey -- This is a survey for which names the articles for the municipalities in the region of Brussels should have. The region is officially bilingual, French-Dutch, and several of the municipalities have different names in French and Dutch. In the first part of this survey, a majority was found in favour of using one single name. In the second part, a majority was found in favour of using the name most used in English. An investigation showed more usage of the French name for 10 municipalities, and undecided for 2. For these two, the Dutch name was chosen. The articles in question are given below, with their present titles and the results of the survey. Markussep 18:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Auderghem no move
  • Forest, Belgium no move
  • Ixelles-Elsene → Ixelles
  • Molenbeek-Saint-Jean → Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
  • Saint-Gilles, Belgium no move
  • Saint-Josse-ten-Noode no move
  • Schaarbeek → Schaerbeek
  • Sint-Agatha-Berchem no move
  • Uccle no move
  • Watermael-Boitsfort no move
  • Woluwe-Saint-Lambert no move
  • Woluwe-Saint-Pierre - Sint-Pieters-Woluwe → Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

• I've posted to the discussion regarding these moves, and pending confirmation there, we can move three and then delist most of the others. -GTBacchus^(talk) 23:14, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

  Relisting. they need a little more time to sort these out. -GTBacchus^(talk) 06:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I think we're done now, I summarized the result above. Markussep 18:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)