Wikipedia:Requested moves

Requested moves is a process for requesting the retitling (moving) of an article, template, or project page on Wikipedia. For retitling files, categories and other items, see When not to use this page.

Please read the article titling policy and the guideline regarding primary topics before moving a page or requesting a page move.

Any autoconfirmed user can use the Move function to perform most moves (see Help:How to move a page). If you have no reason to expect a dispute concerning a move, be bold and move the page. However, it may not always be possible or desirable to do this:

• Technical reasons may prevent a move; for example, a page may already exist at the target title and require deletion, or the page may be protected from moves. See: § Requesting technical moves.
• Requests to revert recent, undiscussed, controversial moves may be made at WP:RM/TR. If the new name has not become the stable title, the undiscussed move will be reverted. If the new name has become the stable title, a requested move will be needed to determine the article's proper location.
• A title may be disputed, and discussion may be necessary to reach consensus: see § Requesting controversial and potentially controversial moves. The requested moves process is not mandatory, and sometimes an informal discussion at the article's talk page can help reach consensus.
• A page should not be moved and a new move discussion should not be opened when there is already an open move request on a talk page. Instead, please participate in the open discussion.
• Unregistered and new (not yet autoconfirmed) users are unable to move pages.

Requests are generally processed after seven days. If consensus to move the page is reached at or after this time, a reviewer will carry out the request. If there is a consensus not to move the page, the request will be closed as "not moved". When consensus remains unclear, the request may be relisted to allow more time for consensus to develop, or the discussion may be closed as "no consensus". See Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions for more details on the process.

Wikipedia:Move review can be used to contest the outcome of a move request as long as all steps are followed. If a discussion on the closer's talk page does not resolve an issue, then a move review will evaluate the close of the move discussion to determine whether or not the contested close was reasonable and consistent with the spirit and intent of common practice, policies, and guidelines.

When not to use this page

Separate processes exist for moving certain types of pages, and for changes other than page moves:

• Making an uncontroversial move – if you can, be bold and do it yourself! If you can't, see § Requesting technical moves.
• Renaming a category – propose the move at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
• Renaming a stub template – propose the move at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
• Renaming an image or other file – see Wikipedia:Moving a page § Moving a file page.
• Moves from draft namespace or user space to article space – Unconfirmed users: add {{subst:submit}} to the top of the article. See Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Confirmed users: Move the page yourself.
• Merging two articles – make a request at Wikipedia:Proposed mergers, or be bold and do it yourself.
• Splitting an article – make a request at Wikipedia:Proposed article splits, or be bold and do it yourself.
• Requesting that page histories be merged – list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge.
• Contesting a move request close – use the Wikipedia:Move review process.

Undiscussed moves

Autoconfirmed editors may move a page without discussion if all of the following apply:

• No article exists at the new target title;
• There has been no previous discussion about the title of the page that expressed any objection to a new title; and
• It seems unlikely that anyone would reasonably disagree with the move.

If you disagree with a prior bold move, and the new title has not been in place for a long time, you may revert the move yourself. If you cannot revert the move for technical reasons, then you may request a technical move.

Move wars are disruptive, so if you make a bold move and it is reverted, do not make the move again. Instead, follow the procedures laid out in § Requesting controversial and potentially controversial moves.

Uncontroversial proposals

Only list here proposals that are clearly uncontroversial but require administrator help to complete. Things like capitalization and spelling mistakes would be appropriate here. If there is any prior discussion as to the name of the article please link to it. If there is any possibility that the proposed page move could be opposed by anyone, do not list it in this section. If the move location appears as a red link you should be able to move the article using the move button of the top of the article's page (unless your account is less than 4 days old) and don't need to use this page.

Please list new requests at the bottom and use {{subst:WP:RM2|Old page name|Requested name|Reason for move}}; do not copy, paste, and edit previous entries. No dated sections are necessary, and no templates on the article's talk page are necessary. Do not sign yourself — the template will do it for you.

If your request was not fulfilled, and was removed from this section—or if you object to a proposal listed here—please relist it in the #Incomplete and contested proposals section below.

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• All these Pokemon articles that are still at the Japanese names:

• Mukubird → Staravia
• Mukuhawk → Staraptor
• Korotok → Kricketune
• Rentorer → Luxray
• Trideps → Bastiodon
• Mimilop → Lopunny
• Donkarasu → Honchkrow
• Fukamaru → Gible
• Kabarudon → Hippowdon
• Keikouo → Finneon
• Neorant → Lumineon
• Yukikabli → Snover
• Berobelt → Lickilicky
• Dosidon → Rhyperior
• Mojanbo → Tangrowth
• Leafia → Leafeon
• Dainose → Probopass
• Yonoir → Dusknoir
• Sheimi → Shaymin
• Arseus → Arceus

• English names confirmed in-game —Oraclelink 20:31, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
• Muse (Greek mythology) → Muse — restore primary use to base name —JHunterJ 18:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Someone else obviously disagrees about which, if any, is the primary usage. Moved from uncontroversial. --Stemonitis 18:21, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

  The other editor has since attempted to undo the move, but with a cut-n-paste swap which I undid. -- JHunterJ 21:15, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Cataline 'Jean Caux' → Cataline — The creator gave it this name because 'Cataline' was already taken, but only as a redirect to catch misspellings of Catiline. This article should be named 'Cataline' with
  This page is about topic. For other topic, see location.
  added for disambiguation purposes —bobanny 23:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC);
• Poppin' (Chris Brown song) → Poppin' — Single by Chris Brown. No need for disambiguation. —Admc2006 00:10, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• Henry Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham → Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham — "de Nassau d'Auverquerque" is the correct surname. —Pilch62 03:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• Subantartic → Subantarctic — Some apparent newcomer got so excited about the previous proposed merge of Subantarctic and Sub-Antarctic they moved the whole mess to the non-word Subantartic, and enuf stuff has been edited it will take admin intervention to move. Redirects Sub-antarctic and Sub-Antarctic don't seem to have histories, but probably should be included in the cleanup —76.22.4.86 03:56, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• A Star is Burns → A Star Is Burns — Verbs must be capitalized in titles —Crashintome4196 06:12, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Incomplete and contested proposals

If a requested move is incomplete (not all steps of the procedure are followed), or if anyone could reasonably object to an "uncontroversial" proposal, it should be listed here until the proposer or anyone else completes it. After the completion, please move the entry to the top of "other proposals" section. Please place newly moved requests to the top of this list, and either sign (~~~~) or just put the timestamp (~~~~~) at the end. Proposals that remain here longer than 5 days are subject to removal.

• Bobby Roode → Robert Roode — "Robert Roode" is his full name and his stage name. — L2K 03:27, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
  • He only started wrestling as Robert Roode a few months ago, far better known as Bobby. TJ Spyke 08:41, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

• Moved to controversial. --Stemonitis 09:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

• Union Flag → Union Jack —(Discuss)— The Oxford English Dictionary does not acknowledge the term Union Flag in its full version. Nor does Encyclopaedia Britannica. The BBC uses the term Union Jack exclusively too following a mass of complaints from the public. Wikipedia is the first entry in Google when searching for Union Jack, and should follow the trends set by acclaimed reference sources. Only a handful of people pushed for the change, as can be seen in the 'discuss' tab on "Union Jack Flag" —217.158.65.178 14:29, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
  • See Union_Jack#Terminology:_"Union_Flag"_or_"Union_Jack"?. In particular, « The term "Union Flag", on the other hand, is the term preferred [...] by vexillologists. ». Urhixidur 15:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• No discussion space on talk page; moved to incomplete. --Stemonitis 15:22, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) → These Foolish Things —(Discuss)— This article refers to the original song; all other instances of "These Foolish Things" are references to this popular song. This article should first be moved to "These Foolish Things", then "These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)" should be deleted. Preserving the original redirect should be unnecessary. —winstonho0805 07:13, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• "Remind Me Of You" is not, in this case, a disambiguating term, but probably part of the full title. Moved from uncontroversial. --Stemonitis 10:23, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• About Last Night (film) → About Last Night... — The film's correct title is with the ellipsis. —Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 10:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
  • But it is guaranteeable that many people looking for this page will leave the dots off. To complicate matters, page About Last Night without the dots is about a music EP record. Anthony Appleyard 17:36, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Moved from uncontroversial. This one will clearly need a bit of discussion to work out the best way forward. --Stemonitis 18:25, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Call for Help (TV series) → Call for Help — No reason to disambiguate. Destination page currently has 2 items in edit history. —Wikibarista 21:45, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

• I think there's a case to be made for having Call for Help redirect to call for help (as it did some years ago). Moved from uncontroversial. --Stemonitis 13:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• Perhaps it's not my place to argue since I made the original proposal, but according to the Manual of Style, titles of articles should best reflect their real capitalization. The proper style is to have the article at its proper-nouned (that's a word!) location, then disambiguated with a {{disambig}} message put at the top to point to the lower case version. Furthermore, it has pointed to the TV show since October 2005, and not been contested as far as I can tell. —Wikibarista 14:51, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Trillian (disambiguation) → Trillian — No reason for disambig page to redirect to the (disambiguation) version —Wikibarista 18:37, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

• Object. It was recently moved the other direction, and I think that Trillian should be a redirect to the software. Dekimasuよ! 04:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• Perhaps it's not my place to argue since I made the original proposal, but do you mean to say that the software article should just be called "Trillian" again? It wouldn't be proper style to have "Trillian" redirect to "Trillian (software)" just as having it redirect to the disambig page isn't proper either. Do you think if there were any objections in the last two or three months would have shown up on the talk page instead of being disambiguated to the (software) page throughout Wikipedia? It is a pretty active article. —Wikibarista 14:51, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• I was thinking that the Trillian program had an official suffix that just isn't part of the article name, but that doesn't seem to be the case... so I would support a move of Trillian (software) to Trillian. It's likely to be the primary use of the name. Dekimasuよ! 03:38, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Other proposals

All of the proposals listed below need to have a discussion set up on talk page of the article to be moved (see Steps 2-3 here). Please use the template {{subst:WP:RM|Old Page Name|Requested name|Reason for move}} and, if necessary, create a new dated section.

April 23 2007

• Kagura (dance) → Kagura —(Discuss)— This word only has one meaning that isn't an anime character, so it seems like that article should be under the name. I've already moved the disamiguation page to Kagura (disambiguation) —Kotengu 小天狗 04:25, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• Krusty → Krusty the Clown —(Discuss)— The character from The Simpsons should be listed by his "full name," rather than just his first name. Krusty the Clown is a more appropriate title for an article than just "Krusty." Every other character on the show is listed by their full name (ex: Lenny Leonard, not Lenny (The Simpsons) ). —Crashintome4196 01:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• Confrontation at Montgomery's Tavern → Battle of Montgomery's Tavern —(Discuss)— more commonly recognized title —McMuff 00:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

April 22 2007

• Fairfield (Essex County), New Jersey → Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey —(Discuss)— Page was moved to a name that violates standards for naming of New Jersey municipalities. —Alansohn 18:24, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Pili pili → Piri piri—(Discuss)— Google seems to prefer the latter by a wide margin, as does the originating spelling, as does the article itself!--Lionelbrits 16:14, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Salvatore Belleci → Tory Belleci —(Discuss)— Its his far more common nickname. wikipedia naming policy —^DAVID _CAT 23:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC) ^DAVID _CAT 23:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

• Created discussion space on the behalf of the editor who proposed the move. Dekimasuよ! 06:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Will o' the wisp → Will-o'-the-wisp —(Discuss)— Will o' the wisp is a misspelling. It is similar to jack-o'-lantern and if one looked it up in any encyclopedia I'm sure it would be spelled Will-o'-the-wisp. See also [1]. —Tim Q. Wells 04:02, 22 April 2007 (UTC) Tim Q. Wells 04:02, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Lol Crème → Lol Creme —(Discuss)— He has never used an accent in his name on albums, publicity material or his website. The Lol Creme page already redirects to Lol Crème, so I can't just move it. —Grimhim 05:34, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Albert I, Margrave of Brandenburg → Albert the Bear —(Discuss)— "Albert the Bear" predominates in English literature. Also, the title "Margrave of Brandenburg" was not even his highest title in life: that would be Duke of Saxony. This figures is an exception to rules governing systematic naming. — Srnec 02:25, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

April 21 2007

• Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water → Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water —(Discuss)— spelling —Tino 22:57, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
• Antonio José Conceição Oliveira → António José Conceição Oliveira —(Discuss)— real spelling —Matthew_hk tc 14:30, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

• Bob R. Riley → Bob Riley —(Discuss)— This is by far the most notable and linked-to of any Bob Rileys, and the current article name is a senseless combination of an informal first name and a middle initial. —Wasted Time R 11:37, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
• Dudu Aouate → Dudu Awat —(Discuss)— Awat is the correct English transliteration of his name, and by far the most common spelling in English language media in Israel (and also used by the English F.A.) —Number 57 10:52, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

• Ryūkyū proper → Ryūkyū Shotō —(Discuss)— This page is documenting a Japanese division of the Ryukyu Islands (English name, which the Japanese call the Nansei Islands). The English name currently on the article is a neologism. The proposed name is the Japanese name for this group of islands. —Neier 07:03, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

• Vietnam National University → Vietnam National University, Hanoi —(Discuss)— This translation of the University name is more correct and looks to be how the University refers to itself on the English language section of their homepage. —A10203040 05:02, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

• Aloha shirt → Hawaiian shirt —(Discuss)— The term "Hawaiian shirt" is more commonly used, as demonstrated by simple Google searches, and the term is much more widespread than "Aloha shirt", which according to the article itself is primarily a term used in Hawaii itself. —Branddobbe 04:10, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

• CIA leak scandal (2003) → Plame affair —(Discuss)— The article was originall moved without discussion to CIA leak scandal. The page was then reverted back to Plame affair and then moved without consensus from Plame affair to CIA leak scandal and then to CIA leak scandal (2003) during an ongoing discussion. The move from CIA leak scandal to CIA leak scandal (2003) required the fixing of a double redirect which prevented a move back to Plame affair until discussion could be completed. Subsequent discussion on the article talk page indicates that Plame affair is the more popular choice for the article name. However, google searches seem to indicate that "CIA leak case" is the more commonly used named. All in all, a consensus name choice is needed. —Bobblehead 02:56, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

20 April 2007

• Disney's The Kid → The Kid (2000 film) —(Discuss)— The movie is called "The Kid", see IMDb or any other source. It is standard practice to include date of release and "film" to the end of movie title on Wikipedia when ambiguity exists. —Vivaldi (talk) 02:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

• Kamacuras → Kamakiras —(Discuss)—This is a more authentic spelling of the name. I've never seen any print source use the Kamacuras spelling, only online. The Kamakiras spelling is identical to the katakana save for the drop of the final u. --Scottandrewhutchins 19:39, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• End of the World Party (Just in Case) → End of the World Party (just in case) —(Discuss)—

• Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps) → Last Chance to Dance Trance (perhaps) —(Discuss)— The parenthetical titles on these albums are not capitalized. This is an intentional sytlistic choice made by the band. Look at the band's discography page and each individual album cover. —taestell 18:43, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• Counter-insurgency → Counterinsurgency —(Discuss)- According to 4 credible dictionary sources, the word counterinsurgency is one word without a hyphen between the two words counter and insurgency — References: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/counterinsurgency; (Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1); The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition; WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.; The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. -Signaleer 16:24, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• Grand Army Plaza-Prospect Park (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) → Grand Army Plaza (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) —(Discuss)— —NE2 16:17, 20 April 2007 (UTC) --NE2 16:17, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• Triband (telephone) → Tri band —(Discuss)— completing request made by another user —Stemonitis 11:22, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• Cheonji lake → Heaven Lake —(Discuss)— suggested as a compromise between rival Korean and Chinese factions—Stemonitis 07:28, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

• Gwb43.com → Bush Administration email controversy or elsewhere —(Discuss)— completing move request made by another user —Stemonitis 08:37, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• Atlanta, Georgia → Atlanta —(Discuss)— Atlanta, GA is the most common usage of the term Atlanta. This move would follow similar moves relating to Philadelphia and Montreal —Black Harry 05:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• Light elf → Light elves —(Discuss)— and Dark elf → Dark elves —(Discuss)— after much research the light elves and dark elves are plural in original Eddic texts, they hardly ever travel alone and the original Norse word is plural. There are existing redirects the admin will need to clear. I cannot move the pages myself without hurting the page histories. Thank you for your consideration in advance. Goldenrowley 18:33, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• Alberta provincial highway 759 → Alberta secondary highway 759 —(Discuss)— It is a secondary highway, not a primary/provincial highway. —Windrider6 00:28, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

19 April 2007

• Lost: The Video Game → Lost (video game) —(Discuss)— This is a pretty standard move, as the title is incorrect and the correct title is a redirect with history. However, I'm listing it here instead of uncontroversial moves just in case. —ShadowUltra 22:14, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• Amanda (singer) → Amanda Lameche —(Discuss)— To use the full name on the page title. —Nyletak ♥ 20:16, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Poison Ivy → Poison Ivy (comics) —(Discuss)— The article Poison Ivy should be about the plant, not a fictional character named after the plant. —Doczilla 17:13, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Qingdao Haixin → Qingdao Hailifeng —(Discuss)— this club renamed again —Dj nix 00:15, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

• Moved to dated section. --Stemonitis 13:29, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Ajmer sex scandal → elsewhere —(Discuss)— completing move request made by another user: "Sex scandal" implies to me some sort of lurid tabloid story rather than the very serious case of rape and blackmail described in the piece. --Stemonitis 10:08, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation → Grumman —(Discuss)— completing move request made by another user —Stemonitis 09:52, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Cassie Bernall → Cassie Bernall controversy —(Discuss)— completing move request made by another user —Stemonitis 09:17, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• 2006 Lebanon War → 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war —(Discuss)— New consensus —Kendrick7^talk 07:37, 19 April 2007 (UTC) -- Kendrick7^talk 07:37, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
  • This is the third move request in less than a month, and someone reverted the closing of the admin who ended the second one as no consensus today, so that's still showing as open on the page. Can we slow down a little bit? Dekimasuよ! 10:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
    • It would help if y'all were a little more thorough in deciding what WP:Consensus was in the first place. In the first move request, there was a slim consensus to move 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict to 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, but instead it was moved to the current title. In the second nomination, there was at least a consensus to lowercase the 'w' in war per naming conventions, but instead it was decided that there was no consensus to do anything. Sorry, though, I don't know who reopened the earlier nomination. I'm nonplussed that the names of major wars should be decided by the majority of whichever partisans are editing in a given week. -- Kendrick7^talk 19:44, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• Port Arthur massacre → Port Arthur massacre (1996) —(Discuss)— I would think that the massacre in the Sino-Russian war would be just as notable, or more notable than the one in Australia, and the likely search result. Port Arthur massacre (1894) —132.205.44.134 00:25, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri → Luis Miguel (singer) —(Discuss)— Luis Miguel the singer may qualify the primary usage of Luis Miguel page, but i think Luis Miguel should just like to disambiguation page —Matthew_hk tc 02:35, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Luis Miguel (singer) → Luis Miguel —(Discuss)— The article used to be at Luis Miguel, and should be moved back there, before any move requests are submitted. The April 18 move to Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri was controversial in the first place, and should never have been done.--Endroit 09:33, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

18 April 2007

• Canadian French → French in Canada —(Discuss)— The current content of the article is mostly about demographics, legal issues, social issues, etc., and only has very light, general coverage of the linguistic features of Canadian French (there isn't a single example in French). Since the current content of Canadian French is primarily non-linguistic, I feel French in Canada would be the best title for it, as has been suggested by previous editors.
  — Currently, there is extensive coverage of linguistic features in a series of articles centred around Quebec French. Canadian French is an umbrella term for Quebec French and Acadian French, and a number of solutions are possible for the division of linguistic material between these three articles. Politics is likely to intervene in the choice among these possibilities. However, an attempt to maintain the title Canadian French as an eventual home for material duplicating what is now at Quebec French amounts to a POV split.
  — I suggest we adopt, at least initially, the system used by the German Wikipedia: 1. an article French in Canada with virtually the entire content of what is now at Canadian French (excluding the parts devoted to the use of the term Canadian French, but retaining most of the very general material about dialects; 2. A brief article at Canadian French with links to French in Canada, Quebec French and Acadian French. Then if somebody wanted to expand Canadian French to a discussion of the relations between the dialects, that would be fine. But if they wanted to get into linguistic material already at Quebec French it would have to be worked out on the Quebec French page. Joeldl 12:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC) —Joeldl 12:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
• Chromosomal crossover → Homologous recombination —(Discuss)— Chromosomal crossover is a naturally occurring type of homologous recombination, but homologous recombination also refers to an artificial technique for introducing different DNA sequences into an organism. HR used to redirect to CC; rather than create a different page at HR, I think CC should move to it as it is a significant subset of HR. —Madeleine 01:12, 18 April 2007 (UTC)-Madeleine 01:12, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
• Catholic Church in Sweden → Roman Catholicism in Sweden —(Discuss)— To be consistent with all the other articles in Category:Roman Catholic Church by country —Richard 18:11, 18 April 2007 (UTC)