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Requested move 15 November 2017[edit]

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The result of the move request was: no consensus, default to status quo. Jenks24 (talk) 10:22, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Directorate-General for the Environment → Directorate-General for Environment – The DG was renamed in November 2016. Rugops (talk) 10:44, 15 November 2017 (UTC) Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 07:38, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See:

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/environment/
http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/resource/authority/corporate-body/xml/corporatebodies.xml — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rugops (talk • contribs) 10:53, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment as I am unable to access the link from here, can anyone kindly confirm the links actually read what he says it does. Cheers ʍaɦʋɛօtʍ (talk) 12:32, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Those are primary sources in any case, and not of very much relevance under WP:AT. See also this explanatory essay. The question is, has the name change spread to common usage? See WP:NAMECHANGES. Andrewa (talk) 01:24, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Google gives me three times the number of ghits for the old name as the new. [1] [2] In the absence of other evidence, this move is at best premature. Andrewa (talk) 01:31, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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