Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests

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:..."

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Uncontroversial technical requests

• Draft:Akshata Murty (currently a redirect to Akshata Murty) → Akshata Murty (move · discuss) – blocked by a redirect CT55555 (talk) 14:47, 7 April 2022 (UTC) CT55555 (talk) 14:47, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
• Touro College and University System (currently a redirect to Touro University System) → Touro University (move · discuss) – Charter was amended; Touro College is now Touro University. See Touro College Granted University Status by New York State Board of Regents Puzzledvegetable^{Is it teatime already?} 21:04, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

  But what about all the other institutions called Touro University and listed at the target title? Dr. Vogel (talk) 05:14, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

  Is there evidence for one being a clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC? If not, Touro University should remain a disamb page, but Touro College and University System should still be renamed to something else. -Kj cheetham (talk) 08:13, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

• Ford Maverick (2022) → Ford Maverick (pickup truck) (currently a redirect back to Ford Maverick (2022)) (move · discuss) – Per talk page, more understandable and less time-dependent. Andra Febrian (talk) 14:10, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

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Contested technical requests

• Major League Baseball on NBC → Major League Baseball on NBC Sports (currently a redirect back to Major League Baseball on NBC) (move · discuss) – With NBC branded games produced by their sports department games now airing on Peacock it makes sense to add the sports to the title. Esolo5002 (talk) 01:54, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

  Is the current title incorrect? Why make it less WP:CONCISE? -Kj cheetham (talk) 08:14, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

  Substantially yes. Games are airing on Peacock and not NBC. This allows the article to have a larger scope, it's less concise but more precise. Esolo5002 (talk) 12:15, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

  But it's produced by NBC Sports, not on NBC Sports? I admit I don't understand the connection between Peacock and NBU, so I will leave this to someone else to look at. -Kj cheetham (talk) 13:09, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

• 2021 World Baseball Classic (currently a redirect to 2023 World Baseball Classic) → 2023 World Baseball Classic (move · discuss) – Per CBA of the 2021–22 Major League Baseball lockout, the WBC will come back in 2023. Source Sqldf03 (talk) 21:53, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

  @Sqldf03: Then shouldn’t a new page be created for the year the WBC returns instead of moving the 2021 page to a future page? -2pou (talk) 06:10, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

  @2pou: I've tried, but it gives the following error: "The page could not be moved: a page of that name already exists, or the name you have chosen is not valid. Please choose another name, or use Requested moves to ask for the page to be moved." Initially I did copy and paste but that was a bad practice I learned (you can see my talk page).

  I suppose you can redirect the 2023 World Baseball Classic into its own page than World Baseball Classic, but moving 2021 would suffice because of the information it has. Sqldf03 (talk) 15:15, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

• Gyros (food) (currently a redirect to Gyros) → Gyros (move · discuss) – Gyros is the primary topic, disambiguation is not required. WWGB (talk) 04:26, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

  Hi, what about Gyros (moth) and gyroplanes ? Dr. Vogel (talk) 05:15, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

There is no article called "Gyros", the title is going to waste. WWGB (talk) 05:40, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

yes, but that could hold a disambiguation page. Can you show us any evidence that the one you want is actually the primary topic? Dr. Vogel (talk) 05:53, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

"Gyro" is a very common contraction for gyroscope, also seen in phrases gyro-action, gyro-stabilized etc. I'd say Gyros (the food) was a poor choice for primary even if it were my favorite. Doug butler (talk) 06:12, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

I'm inclined to say Gyros should be a disamb page or at least redirect to Gyro, unless there is a clear case for a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. -Kj cheetham (talk) 08:12, 7 April 2022 (UTC) P.S. WP:PLURAL is the other consideration of course. -Kj cheetham (talk) 08:43, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

• Psychological impact of climate change → Effects of climate change on mental health (move · discuss) – change the title to ‘mental health’ which encompasses ‘psychological’ aspects but is a bit broader. This is also what is typically used across the field and by WHO. The other advantage would be that it would fall into the group of "effects of climate change on..." for which we have a few articles by now. I can't move it myself because the article "Effects of climate change on mental health" (currently a redirect) needs to be deleted first EMsmile (talk) 23:15, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

  Hi, my impression with this one is that it needs consensus. Has there been a discussion about this? Dr. Vogel (talk) 13:31, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

  There was very recent discussion started on the talk page, which tells me this is potentially not uncontroversial given discussion was needed at all. I don't object, but think proper discussion is needed. -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:41, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi User:DrVogel and User:Kj cheetham thanks for taking a look. Yes, there was a discussion on the talk page and I felt it had already reached a consensus. What is your proposal for the way forward? Is it a matter of waiting for further comments (for how long)? Or do you want me to "advertise" the discussion in other places still? EMsmile (talk) 22:04, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

P.S. I had pinged the main previous contributors of the article but it's quite a "small" article with not much activity on the talk page. EMsmile (talk) 22:07, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

The "best" way is to open a full RM discussion, which runs for 7 days and gets listed in various places, but I'm not sure if that's overkill here. -Kj cheetham (talk) 07:59, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

It probably would be overkill for a page that is so small with only about 30 pageviews per day. I've also put it up at WikiProject Climate Change (here) now. If there are no objections, could we get it done within maybe a week from now? EMsmile (talk) 11:00, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

I don't see any objections in any of the places where this has been discussed. I personally don't object to the move, and Kj cheetham, who's a very experienced editor, doesn't seem to disagree either. I will check the discussions again this time tomorrow and if still zero objections I'll boldly just make this move, because it's only a swap that's easy to revert anyway. Dr. Vogel (talk) 11:55, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

• Five per Cent for Nothing (currently a redirect to Five Per Cent for Nothing) → Five Per Cent for Nothing (move · discuss) – Per in this usage is part of a compound noun and not treated as a preposition as such. DigitalIceAge (talk) 00:27, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

  The article itself and quite a few sources use "per Cent". I don't think this is uncontroversial enough to be done without an RM consensus. ~Styyx^Talk? 19:03, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

  FWIW I'm the one who moved it to "Five per Cent for Nothing" (from "Five Per Cent For Nothing") and changed the article text to match. After a discussion with the article writer on the DYK nom page and on my talk page I agreed that per should probably be capitalized. I suppose I should ping him (@Daniel Case:). DigitalIceAge (talk) 23:00, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

When I created it I titled it "Five Per Cent For Nothing", as that's how it's spelled on the initial releases of the album IIRC (certainly on the cassette sleeves). It seems that the current title styling comes from how Virgil Howe styled it on his Yes Remixes album, a semi-official project, five years ago, and some recent band uses, as DIA notes at the DYK discussion, have done it that way as well. But the Soundcloud page, also an official band page, spells it the 1971 way.

I agree this might be better off resolved through a formal RM, but I would ask that we wait for that until after it has appeared on DYK. Daniel Case (talk) 01:37, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

• 3D Toronto sign (currently a redirect to Toronto Sign) → Toronto Sign (move · discuss) – "3D Toronto Sign" no longer appears to be the official name of the sign per the city (see talk page). Also even if it is, "Toronto Sign" is WP:COMMONNAME as acknowledged within the the first sentence of the article itself, official names aren't preferred. CASalt (talk) 20:58, 5 April 2022 (UTC) CASalt (talk) 20:58, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

  Hi there, this can't be done as uncontroversal given the previous discussion and move history. Dr. Vogel (talk) 11:50, 6 April 2022 (UTC)