Talk:Haileybury Comets

Comets[edit]

Just out of curiosity, what is the source? I've never once run into this. Ravenswing 15:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, I took it from the lead of the article. I will check my references today and verify or fix that. SIHR lists other names too. Alaney2k (talk) 16:08, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you google Haileybury Comets, you see that CBC and the Hockey Hall of Fame refer to them as the Comets. Alaney2k (talk) 16:11, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but the HHOF has proven wrong on any number of cases; their webmasters are certainly not hockey historians. Are there any reliable sources backing this up? Ravenswing 16:50, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I am willing to check old Globe newspapers around the time. The CBC got their data from the city of New Liskeard for Hockey Day 2003, it appears. Both Cobalt and Haileybury's articles were clearly wrong to list only the one season of operation, I'm happy to have fixed that up. Alaney2k (talk) 17:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've heard Haileybury Comets before too, but this may be just a nickname, as opposed to the team's real name? More sources are needed for this, I'd vote to rename back to "Haileybury Hockey Club". 209.105.207.74 (talk) 02:59, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mm, it's been a month now. Has there been any verification of sources? Ravenswing 15:03, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I remember Morey Holzman (he wrote the book Deceptions and Doublecrosses), mentioning years ago on a Yahoo group that the team never had an official name. The papers at the time referred to them as the Miners not Comets. So Haileybury Miners would be more accurate. Morey also mentioned that the name "Comets" didn't come about until years after the team folded in various pieces of literature (i.e Hockey books). He always suspected that some writer gave them that name (without proper research) in trying to be cute, as in Hailey's Comet.Giantdevilfish (talk) 03:25, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 11 January 2021[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 08:56, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Haileybury Comets → Haileybury Hockey Club – Primary sources used the name Haileybury Hockey Club when referring to this team, and it was the official name; the "Comets" nickname comes up much less frequently. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 06:35, 11 January 2021 (UTC) —Relisting. Natg 19 (talk) 09:56, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: per WP:COMMONNAME. There are tens of thousands of examples -- and many in ice hockey articles as well -- where the official name of something is not the article title. Indeed, all manner of contemporary clubs (Renfrew Creamery Kings, Ottawa Silver Seven, Toronto Blueshirts, Quebec Bulldogs) are better known by unofficial nicknames, sometimes not even contemporaneous to the clubs' existence. Ravenswing 14:23, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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