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===April 1, 2010===
===April 1, 2010===
* ''([[Talk:Talk to the hand (expression)#Requested move |Discuss]])'' — '''[[: to the hand (expression)]] → [[Talk to the hand]]''' — This is the [[WP:PT|primary topic]] for this title; everything else is an allusion to the expression, and none of the items has become so notable as to be the first thing that comes to mind. [[User:Bigbluefish|Bigbluefish]] ([[User talk:Bigbluefish|talk]]) 17:52, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

* ''([[Talk:Administrative divisions of Afghanistan#Requested move |Discuss]])'' — '''[[:Administrative divisions of Afghanistan]] → [[Subdivisions of Afghanistan]]''' — Like others in [[:Category:Subdivisions by country]]. [[User:Tiraios-of-Characene|Tiraios-of-Characene]] ([[User talk:Tiraios-of-Characene|talk]]) 16:20, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
* ''([[Talk:Administrative divisions of Afghanistan#Requested move |Discuss]])'' — '''[[:Administrative divisions of Afghanistan]] → [[Subdivisions of Afghanistan]]''' — Like others in [[:Category:Subdivisions by country]]. [[User:Tiraios-of-Characene|Tiraios-of-Characene]] ([[User talk:Tiraios-of-Characene|talk]]) 16:20, 1 April 2010 (UTC)


Revision as of 18:01, 1 April 2010

April 1, 2010

  • (Discuss) — [[1]] → [[2]] — Current listing for "Cornbread Mafia" is for a defunct band who named themselves after the Cornbread Mafia proper. Also, this page had been created in the past by a different user, but without any proper citation. This draft corrects that problem. Lebanonky (talk) 15:59, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — North-West Frontier Province → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — It would appear that the name of the NWFP has been changed constitutionally. There have been two undiscussed attempts to rename the article (executed as copy/paste jobs, which forced me to revert them), so I now file this request in order to get a proper discussion. The precise spelling of the new name may also be up for discussion, with "Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa" being an alternative. Favonian (talk) 09:14, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — Vergeltungswaffe → V-weapons — Per the article Talk page, Vergeltungswaffe is only obvious to German speakers and other knowledgeable types. V-weapons is much more accessible and makes more sense than looking for the perfect translation of Vergeltung; and Vergeltungswaffe and the translations can/are/should be redirects to V-weapons. Current discussion so far is in favour of this; the last discussion was some years ago and did not reach a very forceful consensus. Thank you for your time. DBaK (talk) 08:21, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — Endocerid → Endocerida — Endocerida is the proper scientific term for this particular taxon, a cephalopod order. The use of the formal term goes with other formal taxonomic terms used in other cephalopod articles. Endocerid simply refers informally to any individual or subtaxon contained within J.H.McDonnell (talk) 01:12, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

March 31, 2010

  • (Discuss) — Matthias the Apostle → Saint Matthias — The issues here are similar to a recent move of "Saint Matthew". This person is already the primary meaning of "Saint Matthias", and is the only Christian saint of this name. There is a "Saint Matthias (disambiguation)" page, but this mostly lists churches and the like, the only other person here is a religious con artist who sometimes used this name. PatGallacher (talk) 15:50, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — Poznań City Hall → Poznań Town Hall — This shows up 5 or 6 times more often on Google; it is used (for example) on the city's website. [3] It would also be consistent with other titles, like Town Hall Tower, Kraków. Although Kraków and Poznań are certainly cities (as opposed to mere towns) today, there is nothing wrong with using the natural English term for ratusz, "Town Hall", for historic buildings which are not the present administrative headquarters. (Similarly we talk about the Old Town district in these cities.) -- Kotniski (talk) 11:50, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

March 30, 2010

  • (Discuss) — New Horizons → New Horizons (spacecraft) — 1) Clarify what the article is about. 2) Put all of the dozen New Horizons articles in Wikipedia on an equal footing for a very general term.With over a dozen New Horizons entries in Wikipedia, I don't see that the NASA spacecraft should necessarily get top billing for the New Horizons encyclopedia entry. Is there some rationale to defend this? I propose we move the New Horizons to become New Horizons (spacecraft)*Support -- as proposer, I support the move. Rationale: 1) clarity as to exactly what this article is really about and 2) leaving all uses of a general term, like New Horizons, at the same level on the disambig page. N2e (talk) 15:39, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — The Crown (Commonwealth realms) → The Crown — The Crown was the original name. Page moved without obvious consensus to a title simply adding an unnecessary dab to that title. Later Good Faith move (see above) simply confused matters further. Anyway, the undabbbed name actually redirects to this dabbed name, now, pointlessly! Note the huge number of pages that link to the old name. Note for reviewers: this move will need admin assistance because of complex page histories. Jubilee♫clipman 13:43, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — Indian Army (1895–1947) → Indian Army (British) — We do not usually use dates for disambiguation and as few if any readers are going to know the dates to search for an article on the Indian Army of the British Empire, it is better if it is moved to a more descriptive name. Originally the name British Indian Army was chosen for this page and confirmed using a poll that pre-dates the WP:RM page! It was moved to the current name without a WP:RM, but it has been at that name for some time hence this request rather than a bold move. -- PBS (talk) 09:33, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — Eve Online → EVE Online — Correct capitalization of the name per the game's developers and publishers is EVE Online, not Eve Online. This is noted as the "official" capitalization in the article lead. Eve Online should be a redirect to EVE Online, not the other way around. (EVE Online needs to be deleted for the move, hence move request.)chaos5023 (talk) 03:59, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

March 29, 2010

  • (Discuss) — Huller → Rice huller — I advocate a move to this new name since the latter is a more accurate and clear description. An alternative is a move to Grain huller, however I'm not sure whether there are other grains that really need a dehusking (most rice btw doesn't neither, aldough it has its merits in some cases). I know that eg some species of corn need a husking process, ...KVDP (talk) 14:29, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

March 28, 2010

  • (Discuss) — Nuclear poison → Neutron poison — Nuclear poison may lead to potential confusion that the subject under discussion in the page is radiation poisoning, as demonstrated by someone templating the talk page of this article as belonging to the Wikiproject Medicine without reading the article, which has nothing to do with poisoning of humans or animals, but rather the 'poisoning' (poisoning as in a catalyst is poisoned) of neutron multiplication - e.g. the chain reaction - within a nuclear reactor. The (US) authority in this area - the USNRC - lists ([13]) both "nuclear poison" and "neutron poison" as synonyms for the subject of this page; changing the title to neutron poison will bring clarity as to what exactly is "being poisoned" (e.g. neutrons, specifically a chain reaction involving neutrons.). Katana0182 (talk) 23:50, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — Intersexuality → Intersex — Terms ending in sexuality uaually refer to issues of sexual orientation or gender identity; many intersex people do not like 'intersexuality', preferring 'intersex', and 'intersex people' rather than 'intersexuals'; also for at least 20 years medical practice has been to refer to 'intersex' conditions rather than the 'intersexual' conditions and 'intersexuality' used in the 1960's, I propose that we move this article to 'intersex', that current redirect to here, and make 'intersexuality' a redirect instead. Mish (talk) 22:52, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — Ebert → Ebert (disambiguation) — I am proposing that this disambiguation page be moved so that the title Ebert can become a redirect to Roger Ebert, in accordance with the disambiguation guideline WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, which states: "Although a term may potentially refer to more than one topic, it is often the case that one of these topics is highly likely – much more likely than any other, and more likely than all the others combined – to be the subject being sought when a reader clicks the 'Go' button for that term. If there is such a topic, then it is called the primary topic for that term. If a primary topic exists, the term should be the title of (or redirect to) the article on that topic." I have posted evidence below that Roger Ebert fulfills these criteria as the primary topic for the term "Ebert.". Propaniac (talk) 15:10, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

March 27, 2010

March 26, 2010

  • (Discuss) — PlayStation (brand) → PlayStation — Since the launch of the first PlayStation console has developed into a wide brand consisting of numerous consoles, handhelds, controllers, an online service as well as magazines. Thus PlayStation is now more commonly referred to as a brand rather than as simply the first console. In addition the public usually calls the original PlayStation, "PS1" or "PSX" while Sony usually refers to it as the "PSone", this can be seen from their naming of PSone Classics instead of PlayStation Classics and uses the name PlayStation when referring to the brand. Hence the first console should be moved to PlayStation (console) and the brand page should be moved to PlayStation. KiasuKiasiMan (talk) 15:16, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — Congotronics series → Congotronics — There is already an entry for "Congotronics", referring to the title of an album by Congolese band Konono N°1. But "Congotronics" has come to designate the similarly-titled series of albums and, by extension, the other related bands and the musical movement they're part of, as well as this style of electrified traditional music they're practising. I created this page called "Congotronics Series" but I believe that most users who are looking for the Congotronics series or musical movement would only type in "congotronics", not "congotronics series". It would therefore be preferable if "congotronics" led to a disambiguation page, enabling the user to choose between "(album by Konono N°1)" or "(Congotronics series)". Alakefak1977 (talk) 09:02, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

March 25, 2010

  • (Discuss) — Bungee language → Bungi — In 5 yrs since page creation, expanded scholarship has preferred “bungi” over “bungee”. This also reduces confusion with “Bungee (jumping)”, removing need for language in title (as precedented in article Bajan). Also, scholarship has revealed “Bungi” to be dialect or creole of English, not a mixed language — further reducing need for language in title. Muckapedia 08:09, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Backlog

  • (Discuss) — Uyghur detainees in Guantanamo → Uyghur captives in Guantanamo — * This article was moved from "Uyghur captives in Guantanamo" to "Uyghur detainees in Guantanamo", with no discussion on the talk page, and with an edit summary claiming that "Uyghur captives" lapsed from NPOV. I request the restoration of the previous name, and request those in favor of the current name go through the proper procedure for changing the name. I point out that in September 2008, ten months prior to this move, the DoJ and DoD acknowledged that they never had any evidence to justify holding these men, without charge, for the previous seven and half months. Our articles, and our articles' titles should not be biased. We should not adopt the extreme terms used by partisans on either side of a debate in our articles. And "detainee" is an explanation of an extreme term from the one side of a discussion. No one called prisoners "detainees" prior to the opening of the controversial Guantanamo camp. The term was picked by spin doctors because of the false air of normalcy it gives the extraordinary captivity of these men. The use of the term "detainee" falsely implies that the indefinite extrajudicial detention is routine, mundane, and sanctioned by the rule of law. The use of the term "detainee" is inappropriate for the several hundred men, held without charge, who have never had a meaningful opportunity to learn and refute the allegations that triggered their detention. It is doubly inappropriate for the 22 Uyghurs, whose captivity is is now acknowledged had never been justified. Some human rights workers refer to these men as "kidnap victims". We wouldn't use that term either. Geo Swan (talk) 14:48, 21 March 2010 (UTC) Geo Swan (talk) 14:48, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — Nokere–Koerse → Nokere Koerse — * This is not a race from Nokere TO Koerse as the dash in the name invokes, but the "Nokere Race" ("de koerse" is (dialect) Flemish for "the race"). The name is different from the very common FROM-TO cycling race names, and I presume it appeared (only in the English wiki btw) by someone who wasn't aware of it and assumed this was like Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico, etc. But it's like the "Tour de France", the "Nokere Race", so no dashes. http://www.nokerekoerse.be/ MinksterWiki (talk) 23:36, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Discuss) — National Gallery (London) → National Gallery, London — or "National Gallery". The only previous discussion was in 2003 (see above), when "National Gallery, London" gained consensus approval. At some subsequent point it was moved without discussion to the present title, which matches no other article I can see. Even worse it means that every single link to this article has to be disambiguated, as actually writing "National Gallery (London)" is never correct. [Note: not so - see "further discussion" below] There are several hundred articles in "what links here" at "National Gallery, London". In terms of WP:COMMONAME the correct name should be "National Gallery" or "National Gallery, London"; no other "national gallery" has that plain name, and it is very often referred to just as "National Gallery" in published art history etc., not just from the UK - compare The Times. When it is not "National Gallery, London" is almost invariably used. "The National Gallery" is the full official name, but it is not used with the capital "T" by RS in practice. Note the quasi-disam page National gallery (small "g"). Currently National Gallery redirects there, but it can be seen from "what links here" that links to "National Gallery" nearly all relate to London. That redirect should be changed to here if "National Gallery, London" is preferred. Johnbod (talk) 15:43, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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