Wikipedia:Requested moves/Other proposals

Other proposals

28 January 2009

• The ODESSA File → The Odessa File —(Discuss)— I propose to revert a move that was made without discussion and based on incorrect assumption. The alleged ODESSA organization is most often called ODESSA with capitalization due to its being an acronym. Some editors assume that both film and book also use that same capitalization. However, they do not. The original Hutchinson & Co book release from 1972 clearly makes a distinction between the title and the organization, and Forsyth himself makes that distinction in the author's note and foreword, referring to the organization as ODESSA initially (Odessa later) and to the book as The Odessa File consistently. User Barbatus moved the article The Odessa File to The ODESSA File without previous discussion, and explaining the move was made because of the acronym. I contacted Barbatus about this, but get the impression he may be less active than before, so I chose to use the talk page instead. Wurdnurd (talk) 00:41, 29 January 2009 (UTC) --Wurdnurd (talk) 00:41, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

• The Highfield Mole → Tunnels (book) —(Discuss)— The book is named Tunnels both nationally and internationally, and is not advertised with the name "The Highfield Mole." Readers looking for the book, without knowing its publication history, will have a hard time finding it. It would be better to have the old title link to the proper title of "Tunnels". --Dracoster (talk) 00:22, 29 January 2009 (UTC) Dracoster (talk) 00:22, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

• United States Ambassadors to Saudi Arabia → United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia — All other US ambassador pages use a singular in the title. Thanks! — Joshdboz (talk) 21:42, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

• Mehmet Öz → Mehmet Oz —(Discuss)— Correct spelling. All references refer to him as "Oz". There has been a recurring problem with some people insisting that Wikipedia use the historic Turkish spelling, despite the references. Note that the talk page is already properly named. --Studerby (talk) 21:27, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

• True love → True Love —(Discuss)— Disambiguation page where all the disambiguated entries are titles capitalized as True Love. Seems very obvious and uncontroversial to me, but since there was a previous discussion about 18 months ago that ended with no consensus (although all of the reasons for disagreement seem very poor, at least applied to the page's current version) it seemed like I should list it here. There's an edit history at True Love anyway. --Propaniac (talk) 21:22, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

• Black and White (2000 film) → Black and White (1999 film) —This is my mistake, the film was indeed released to theaters in 2000, however it was first released in some film festivals in 1999, so in order to preserve the edit history and not have some new user copy and paste edit, please correct my mistake and move from 2000 to 1999. Live and Die 4 Hip Hop (talk) 21:04, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

• St Anselm's College, Birkenhead → St. Anselm's College —(Discuss)— Not university but against WP:UNIGUIDE#Naming conventions. Regardless, disambiguation unnecessary in absence of naming conflict. Furthermore, new name (currently redirect) is real name,[1] while old name is made-up disambiguation. Also, "St" would be better as "St.", with punctuation. --Aepoutre (talk) 18:42, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

• Jordan (Katie Price) → Jordan (model born 1978) —(Discuss)— The current title is a rather ghastly compromise, and this format is not used on high-quality articles. The (x born 19xx) disambiguation variant appears fitting here and avoids any questions over whether we should be using her maiden or current name when she doesn't go by either consistently and is far better known as Jordan. --Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 16:19, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

• Morning Musume Tanjō 10 Nen Kinentai → Morning Musume Tanjō 10nen Kinentai —(Discuss)— The "nen" (Kanji: 年) here is used as a counter for years, and not as a noun. --Eugh jei (talk) 14:22, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Relisted to garner more input.--Aervanath (talk) 15:51, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

• Ice skate → Ice skates —(Discuss)— I suggest this article gets moved so that it follows the style of other articles such as roller skates and inline skatesPeter Napkin Dance Party (talk) 15:24, 28 January 2009 (UTC). --Peter Napkin Dance Party (talk) 15:24, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

27 January 2009

• Spikemoss → Selaginella —(Discuss)— Spikemoss is not the name of ALL the plants in the genus Selaginella and also for consistency with all other pages that describe a genus of plants. ---- Alan Liefting (talk) - 23:25, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• Senglea Athletics F.C. → Senglea Athletic F.C. —(Discuss)— The proper name of a football club using the "Athletic/s" word is "Athletic" and not "Athletics". --JEPAAB (talk) 21:45, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• (Discuss) -- They are lists and should in this case be named as so. --Simply south not SS, sorry 14:45, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
  • The World's most northern → ?
  • The World's most southern → ?

• Empire Builder → Empire Builder (Amtrak) —(Discuss)— Empire Builder should be a disambiguation page - the train, a board game, a ship and a person can all be meant by Empire Builder or Empire builder. --Mjroots (talk) 14:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• Ethic of reciprocity → The Golden Rule —(Discuss)— More commonly known name. Ikip (talk) 11:12, 27 January 2009 (UTC) --Ikip (talk) 11:12, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• STV (disambiguation) → STV — (Discuss) - There are a number of meaning for STV therefore it should not go to a Scottish TV channel — -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 10:42, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• Polytechnic University of Bucharest → Politehnica University of Bucharest —(Discuss)— "Politehnica" is used as a proper name in the original title, "Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti" --Mihai Capotă (talk) 10:18, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• Sharon Abbott → Sharon Newman —(Discuss)— The character's common name is Sharon Newman not her married name, Sharon Abbott. --Rocksey (talk) 05:08, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• "Usual album title" (Artist album) → Artist: "Usual album title" — (Discuss) - We usually call it "Queen: Greatest Hits", not "Greatest Hits (Queen album)". We call it "ABBA: The Album", not "The Album (ABBA album)". That's all. Usual titles including: The Definitive Collection, The Complete Studio Recordings, Number 1s, Greatest Hits, Greatest, Hits, Greatest Hits Live, Gold, Live at the BBC, Live and The Album JSH-alive ^{talk • cont • mail} 03:45, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

26 January 2009

• Birds of Paradise → Bird of paradise —(Discuss)— headings are generally the singular form --Snowman (talk) 00:17, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• Bird of paradise (disambiguation) → Bird of paradise —(Discuss)— Move over redirect/new dab because this is a chronic source of confusion --Una Smith (talk) 23:29, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• New Zealand national rugby union team → ? —(Discuss)— Mutlimove to maintain consistency —Gnevin (talk) 23:17, 26 January 2009 (UTC) Gnevin (talk) 23:17, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Serenity (franchise) → Firefly (franchise) —(Discuss)— name of article should reflect the parent product in the franchise. The contents can remain the same - only the name need be changed. --Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 21:07, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Tōhoku Daigaku Karei Igaku Kenkyūjo Kawashima Ryuta Kyōju Kanshū Chotto Nō o Kitaeru Otona no DSi Training → Chotto Brain Training —(Discuss)— VG project naming conventions strongly support moving the article to Chotto Brain Training. --Megata Sanshiro (talk) 17:39, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Galloping Gertie → Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) —(Discuss)— Question of which is the more commonly known name for the original structure. Discussion and "move" tag previously added to the article talk page by other editors, but the proposal hadn't been logged to this page as yet. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:06, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Excelsior (wood wool) → Wood wool —(Discuss)— Personal preference? Stop an edit war over an improper move? Don't ask me, I'm against it. --Dicklyon (talk) 05:20, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

25 January 2009

• Charles B. Rangel → Charlie Rangel — (Discuss) - per WP:COMMONNAMES. Kelly ^hi! 21:19, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

• Sustain (music) → Sustain — (Discuss) - Sustain currently redirects to Sustain (music). As the musical concept has been identified as the primary meaning of the term "sustain", the qualifier "(music)" is unnecessary. Neelix (talk) 21:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

• MV Polarstern → RV Polarstern —(Discuss)— Google News has 9 hits for the proposed name, none for for the existing one --Petecarney (talk) 19:45, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains → Wikipedia:WikiProject Rail transport —(Discuss)— Covers essentially all aspects of rail transport, expanded from its original goal. --Simply south not SS, sorry 00:00, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
  • The original goal was actually the same as it is now; this is just a renaming to make it clearer what the goal is. --NE2 08:36, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
    • Relisted as still in discussion. Simply south not SS, sorry 13:25, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

• Cup of Portugal → Taça de Portugal —(Discuss)— This is the name that the competitions is most commonly known by, as proven by a quick Google search. Searching for "Cup of Portugal" only returns 15,100 hits, while searching for "Taca de Portugal", which automatically includes "Taça de Portugal", returns 325,000 hits. – PeeJay 18:24, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

• Relisted to garner more input towards consensus.--Aervanath (talk) 07:51, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

• Naftohaz Ukrainy → Naftogaz of Ukraine —(Discuss)— Per official web site --Matthew_hk tc 07:32, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

• Thomas Stevenson (designer) → Thomas Stevenson —(Discuss)— To revert recent move. Based on incoming links and page views, this Thomas Stevenson appears to be primary topic. --Station1 (talk) 07:09, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

24 January 2009

• Tom Stevenson (author) → Tom Stevenson —(Discuss)— undo undiscussed controversial move; primary topic was already in unique namespace and a hatnote sufficed fine. --MURGH ^disc. 12:12, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

• Peter Leko → Péter Lékó —(Discuss)— Name of this Hungarian person has diacritics; this article is one of the last few to resist Wikipedia's tradition to use Latin alphabet diacritics when applicable, for the sake of encyclopedic accuracy. --Húsönd 11:26, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

• (Discuss) Correcting the name of one page and whether or not an (un)equal diambiguation page should be created. --—Ruud 15:42, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
  • City of God (disambiguation) → City of God
  • The City of God → City of God
    • Relisting to garner more input.--Aervanath (talk) 08:13, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

• Legend of the River King → River King —(Discuss)— Recent releases use the name "River King" and not "Legend of the River King". --Evice (talk) 04:27, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

23 January 2009

• Said Ali al-Shihri → Sa'id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri —(Discuss)— This move should be made to revert a recent unilateral, undiscussed move. It is unclear whether the new name is actually for the same person as the existing article was about, as I will explain further on the talk page. This is a BLP issue. I moved it once, and the other hasty contributor moved it back, without waiting for my explanation on the talk page, otherwise I would have listed this as an uncontroversial request. Geo Swan (talk) 18:47, 23 January 2009 (UTC) --Geo Swan (talk) 18:47, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

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