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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.
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

Shortcuts

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

Shortcuts

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 (for example, spelling and capitalization fixes). Do not list a proposed page move in this section if there is any possibility that it could be opposed by anyone. Please list new requests at the bottom of the list and use {{subst:WP:RM2|Old page name|Requested name|Reason for move}} rather than copying previous entries. The template will automatically include your signature. No edits to the article's talk page are required.

If you object to a proposal listed here, please relist it in the #Incomplete and contested proposals section below.

Incomplete and contested proposals

Kiev → Kyiv —(Discuss)— Kiev is now archaic, and has been for 12 years already —199.125.109.19 08:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete - no justification for move given. --Stemonitis 08:37, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually a justification was given, it was just ignored, which is not appropriate. 199.125.109.19 09:35, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sleepwalk this Way → Sleepwalk This Way — Episode capitalization to match TV Guide listing —NrDg 23:40, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Both are now redirects to Sleepwalk This Way#ep37. Anthony Appleyard 05:31, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WBAE (AM) → WBAE — Needless disambiguation - WBAE is a redirect to WBAE (AM) —JPG-GR 05:28, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Both components of the WBAE disambig seem to me to be valid: see last paragraph of CWPLUS 21. Anthony Appleyard 05:36, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film) → The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Brackets not needed —Barryob Vigeur de dessus 12:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- To many people the description "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" would first mean the book. The clarifying addition "(film)" should stay in. Anthony Appleyard 20:05, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jews and Judaism in Japan → History of the Jews in Japan — This is a history topic, and per title precedents of Jewish history by country topics at Category:Jewish history by country. —PCPP 02:47, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete --Stemonitis 09:56, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Giant animal (mythology) → Giant animal — No other article named "Giant animal" (the only other article named "Giant animal" was deleted). —Magnetic hill 22:05, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changed Giant animal to dab; there's nothing in the term specific to mythology. ProhibitOnions ^(T) 10:33, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Wire (TV series) → The Wire — Unnecessary disambiguation when no other "The Wire" page exists. --thedemonhog talk • edits 01:53, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Contested --ProhibitOnions ^(T) 10:33, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The Wire is curently a disambig of 7 alternatives. Anthony Appleyard 13:12, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Other proposals

September 4, 2007

San Francisco, California → San Francisco —(Discuss)— This is the primary topic, and the disambiguating "California" is not needed. —Yath 09:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Product activation → Product Activation —(Discuss)— it's a proper noun, the name of a product —Ewlyahoocom 06:21, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Jozy Altidore → Josmer Altidore —(Discuss)— Jozy is his nickname, and Josmer seems to be commonly used these days —Smmurphy^(Talk) 02:08, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

September 4, 2007

Rangers F.C. internationalists → List of Rangers F.C. international footballers —(Discuss)— The word "internationalists" is very rarely used when referring to footballers. The title I am proposing is much more descriptive of the article and also more likely a search term. —PeeJay 23:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Blind Man pf Seville → The Blind Man of Seville -- I tried to move The Blind Man Of Seville to The Blind Man of Seville, in keeping with the article text. I slipped, and moved it to The Blind Man pf Seville instead. I tried to move it back to The Blind Man of Seville, but there's a redirect there, so it won't let me move it. Sorry about this! -- Danny (talk) 19:24, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suspended swing roller coaster → Suspended roller coaster — To correct name, builders of such rides have always referred to them as such. —Seaserpent⁸⁵ _Talk 16:54, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orang (North Korea) → Orang —(Discuss)— Move was contested on the grounds that the dab page has 8 entries, and that Orang is used to refer to Orangutan. However, as I pointed out previously, this is the only subject that is actually called "Orang" (as opposed to "Orang somethingelse"), and I've never in my life heard an Orangutan refered to as an Orang. Request also that the dab page be moved to Orang (disambiguation). —PC78 15:43, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changjin (North Korea) → Changjin —(Discuss)— Contested uncontroversial move, though I'm really not sure why. Of the three other entries on the dab page, two of them are red links (a river and a lake, both named after this county), while Jang Geum is apparently included on the basis of the McCune-Reischauer romanization of her name (Changgeum), which is a different spelling and not used outside the infobox. If it's worth keeping, the dab page could be moved to Changjin (disambiguation). —PC78 15:33, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Qif conditionals → Wikipedia:Conditional display of table rows —(Discuss)— title that actually makes sense and describes the page's contents — 217.42.77.246 12:06, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Restoration → English Restoration —(Discuss)— per this policy —Reginmund 08:24, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jackie Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher → John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone —(Discuss) - Jackie was a nickname. It is not his proper name. The proposal for a change of name was made in the discussion page on 24th August 2007. There were no objections. One person commended in support.--Toddy1 07:10, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prevnar → Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine —(Discuss)— This article should be moved to the generic name. —Axl 06:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dan Patrick (sportscaster) → Dan Patrick —(Discuss)— This page dealing with a national radio and TV personality was changed to a disambig page involving a local politician with no discussion —Snowfire51 06:46, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Jackson 5 → The Jacksons —(Discuss)— Because it is their more recent name before breaking up —Superior1 03:48, 4 September 2007 (UTC) Superior1 03:48, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maria Klementyna Sobieska → Clementina Sobieski —(Discuss)— Use the standard form of her name as used in English works, as opposed to the Polish form of her name. —Noel S McFerran 02:39, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mohammed ben Abdullah → Mohammed bin Abdullah —(Discuss)— BEN is hebrew while the name is Arabic and BIN is what should be used —Ammar (^Talk - ^{Don't Talk}) 01:50, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Press up → Push up —(Discuss)— Push up page already exists so I cannot make the move. --TyGuy92 01:01, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May Lee → May Lee (The King of Fighters) —(Discuss)— Make way for a page about talk show host May Lee currently in my sandbox. Real people should take precedence over fictional characters lacking assertions of outside notability. —cab 00:27, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- User:CaliforniaAliBaba/May Lee → May Lee

September 3, 2007

Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaievich of Russia → Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich of Russia —(Discuss)— Current name only has one single hit on Google Books as opposed to at least 68 hits for the proposed name which is also used by the Library of Congress —Noel S McFerran 19:58, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy → Hyperbaric medicine —(Discuss)— name if more reflective of the overall field of medicine —User:Hopping ^T 19:44, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Antoni Maura Montaner → Antonio Maura —(Discuss)— Most common name in English-language sources, and name used by Mr. Maura himself —Jmgonzalez 19:30, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine → Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven —(Discuss)— The Battenburgs, the junior Gleichens (albeit pages I created), the Schleswig-Holsteins and the Tecks are all "mainspaced" as post-1917 titles (including Victoria's husband) and I believe this article should follow suit. —Craigy (talk) 19:19, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Beth midrash → Beit midrash —(Discuss)— Current spelling is archaic. Proposed spelling is the most commonly used one - consensus was reached on this a long time ago, and has not been enforced due to laziness and lack of admin intervention. —DLand ^TALK 17:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yisroel ben Eliezer (The Baal Shem Tov) → Baal Shem Tov —(Discuss)— He was most commonly known as "the Baal Shem Tov" and the current title is very long and unwieldy. —DLand ^TALK 17:44, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sultanate of Rûm → Seljuk Sultanate of Rum (Discuss) . Fuller name in the same context. Already proposed by one user in 2006. It which will have advantage of precising whose sultanate it was, keeping all at the same time the persisting formulation of Rum. Cretanforever 07:55, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heaven Lake → Chonji —(Discuss)— Should stay consistent with the mountain it is on, which is Baekdu Mountain. Using WP:NPOV to justify that "Chonji" is biased is wrong, and if it was true, then Baekdu Mountain should also be moved. —Good friend100 02:26, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

September 2, 2007

Metro Columbus → Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area —(Discuss)— Restoring to a more standard name format —Nyttend 21:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Animals as electoral candidates → Non-human electoral candidates —(Discuss)— So that it can include unusual electoral candidates which aren't animals (eg puppets, potted plants). Such "candidates" stem from the same basic idea, so it seems unnecessary to create a new article for them when we could just broaden this one. —Vardion 21:04, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AC Sparta Praha → Sparta Prague —(Discuss)— The common usage in English is Sparta Prague, it even states this in the article. See English language media such as BBC and ESPN —John Hayes^talk 12:45, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Newcastle United Jets → Newcastle Jets FC —(Discuss)— Official rename, consistancy, etc. —Daniel 11:03, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese POWs in the Soviet Union → Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union —(Discuss)— spell out acronym. —Kusunose 09:46, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

September 1, 2007

Mensalão scandal → Mensalão —(Discuss)— Nothing else in the world is called mensalão, so there's no need to specify in the title that the article is about a scandal. This is like the article about Perestroika being called Perestroika reform. A.Z. 21:21, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese mon → Mon (currency) —(Discuss)— It is not helpful to disambiguate the term "mon" by nationality, where "mon" means more than one thing in Japanese. —Bradford44 20:26, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't Ask Me → Don't Ask Me (OK Go song) —(Discuss)— The OK Go single is not a genuine candidate for primary topic. Both the PiL single (number 22 in the UK) and the TV programme (Magnus Pyke, David Bellamy, Miriam Stoppard) are more notable. This article was originally at Don't Ask Me (OK Go song), but that was converted to a redirect, which is why I can't move this page back there myself to make way for Don't Ask Me (disambiguation), which I intend to move here when the page is free. —Grant 20:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Honda Canada Alliston Plants → Honda of Canada Manufacturing —(Discuss)— This is the Actual name that is used at the plants in Alliston —Priester 18:32, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RBI (disambiguation) → RBI —(Discuss)— RBI is an acronym for several popular terms like Reserve Bank of India and run batted in. Therefore, RBI should be a disambig page and not a redirect. —Grubb 18:10, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Brass Knuckles (album) → Brass Knuckles —(Discuss)— Upcoming album by Nelly. The proposed title exists as a redirect to the weapon Brass knuckles. Since two titles with different capitalizations can exist (if one is a proper noun and the other is an improper noun), this should be the new title. For example see Death certificate, the document for a person's death, and Death Certificate, the album by Ice Cube. —Admc2006 17:37, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hawaii → Hawaiʻi —(Discuss)— The addition of an ʻokina as in standard Hawaiian English spelling, to represent the glottal stop as in the standard Hawaiian English pronunciation, as advocated by a number of editors on the article’s talk page. —Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 12:50, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

University of Wales, Aberystwyth → Aberystwyth University —(Discuss)— Has become an independent University with it's own degree awarding powers with the royal charter changing the name of the university —12:08, 1 September 2007 (UTC)AlexD

Pharis Aboobaker → Pharis Aboobacker —(Discuss)— Correct Spelling —Weblogan 09:48, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cinématographe → Cinematograph —(Discuss)— per WP:USEENGLISH —Reginmund 00:42, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

James Fletcher → James Fletcher (entomologist) —(Discuss)— as there are multiple James Fletcher articles, that should have a sole disambiguation page —Lholden 00:26, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

August 31, 2007

Star Trek: Generations → Star Trek Generations —(Discuss)— Unlike Star Trek I-VI (and 8-9), this movie's title does not have a colon in it. See the advertising (such as the movie poster and the soundtrack title) to confirm this. —Roger McCoy 21:38, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Feyenoord Rotterdam → Feyenoord —(Discuss)— Feyenoord is the official name used by the Dutch club, supporters and media. The text Rotterdam is only sometimes added on non public documents. —Ultras GE 21:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Battenberg family → House of Battenberg —(Discuss)— Considering that both the category and the template use the form House of Battenberg, wouldn't it be appropriate for the article to use the same? —Jao 19:09, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New Ordinances of 1311 → Ordinances of 1311 —(Discuss)— they are widely known in English history as the Ordinances of 1311 —Ewlyahoocom 17:39, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sanofi-Aventis → Sanofi-aventis — (Discuss) — sanofi-aventis is used uniformly across the company's official website. - Gr1st 14:47, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Algiers putsch of 1958 → May 1958 crisis —(Discuss)— The historian Michel Winock uses the term of "May 1958 crisis" in his classic book. Titling it as a "putsch" involves a specific reading of history which is controversial (did the putsch really happen? it surely was attempted, and de Gaulle took power, but then de Gaulle wasn't behind the putsch either...) Furthermore, it would differentiate it from the Algiers putsch of 1961. —Tazmaniacs 14:43, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens → Nosferatu —(Discuss)— As per WP:NC(F), we should use the common English title. Looking on Amazon shows that almost all English language DVD editions of the film are called simply "Nosferatu". —Cop 663 13:24, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese French → Chinese people in France —(Discuss)— Existing titles are Wikipedia-only names apparently invented by analogy to "Italian American"; don't see evidence that they're used by reliable sources. Several additional reasons for the move detailed at talk page. Putting this on RM for more visibility as naming conventions for immigrant ethnic groups tends to generate controversy. Additional moves proposed below. —cab 04:00, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Iraqi French → Iraqis in France
- Romanian French → Romanians in France

Hatzerim Israeli Air Force Base → Hatzerim Airbase —(Discuss)— avoid extensive and unnecessary disambiguation —Tewfik^Talk 06:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tourist segregation → Tourist apartheid —(Discuss)— The original name of the article and the term overwhelming used by WP:RS's —146.115.58.152 01:53, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Backlog

Move dated sections here after five days have passed.

Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent → Valerian and Laureline —(Discuss)— Reflects recent name change to this series made by publishers Dargaud. Unable to move manually as earlier Valerian and Laureline article was merged with the main article. Proposal was put up for discussion on talk page over a week ago with no objections raised. —Joe King 12:37, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pantomime → British Pantomime —(Discuss)— Worldwide, and in American English, the term "pantomime" refers to mime, not to the British panto genre. This is causing quite a mess with robots updating interwiki links incorrectly. This move has been suggested in the past, but handled messily. —woggly 11:46, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Movie theater → Cinema —(Discuss)— The term cinema is used worldwide (just read the first sentence of the article), while Movie theater/theatre is only used in the United States. —Shaizakopf 10:42, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

True love → True Love —(Discuss)— every entry on this disambiguation page is uppercase-L —Ewlyahoocom 07:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stanislovas Narutavičius → Stanisław Narutowicz —(Discuss)— Used by subject and more popular in reference works, see talk page for details. —_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 00:55, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

People's Republic of China-Japan relations → Japan-People's Republic of China relations —(Discuss)— Alpahbetical order is Japan and People's Republic of China in common rule. (practice of common rule: "Australia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Mexico, People's Republic of China, Russia and Urkaine" / "brazil mexico people's republic of china and russia" / "Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Mexico, People's Republic of China, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia").

Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta → Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta —(Discuss)— Inaccurate, insulting title, the worst possible variant. "Tomislav II of Croatia, Duke of Aosta" implies that a certain Tomislav of the Croatian royal family was named Duke of Aosta, and that there was a Tomislav I, Duke of Aosta before him —Dr.Gonzo 18:25, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The States → The Estates —(Discuss)— less ambiguous? —Ewlyahoocom 04:14, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tokyo Kyuko Electric Railway → Tokyu Corporation —(Discuss)— The English name of the company, as can be proven by a bajillion references. —Tokek 12:31, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Leo Prime → Lio Convoy —(Discuss)— His name in Transformers Fiction has always been Lio Convoy, one simple toy with no Bio was made as a homage named Leo Prime. Recent images of the upcoming Beast Wars: Ascending comic prove that in America his name is Lio Convoy. Note placed in article discussion page. 24.127.3.102

Android 17 → Artificial Human 17 —(Discuss) — Just like the Artificial Human 18 article, Artificial Human 17 is the more common name dispite the usage of Android in the English dubs and English manga. The Japanese term for this is Jinzō'ningen, which commonly trasnlates as Artificial Human. In the manga, the reason they used Android was to follow the anime. In Dragon Ball volume 6, when they met Artificial Human 8, Viz translated it as Mechanical Man, which is proof that they were following the manga. It should also be mentioned that Artificial Human 8 was actually an Android, and was never human, unlike 17 and 18. In the Dragon Ball series, 17 and 18 were run away humans who were captured by Dr. Gero and experimented on. Thus this makes them cyborg's and not Androids at all. After the defeat of Cell (Dragon Ball), they just call them 17, 18, etc... Ryu-chan 18:47 20 August, 2007 (UTC)

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+*'''[[:San Francisco, California]] → [[:San Francisco]]''' —(''[[{{{4|Talk}}}:San Francisco, California#{{{section|Requested move}}}|Discuss]]'')— This is the primary topic, and the disambiguating "California" is not needed. —[[User:Yath|Yath]] 09:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 *'''[[:Product activation]] → [[:Product Activation]]''' —(''[[{{{4|Talk}}}:Product activation#{{{section|Requested move}}}|Discuss]]'')— it's a proper noun, the name of a product —[[User:Ewlyahoocom|Ewlyahoocom]] 06:21, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 *'''[[:Jozy Altidore]] → [[:Josmer Altidore]]''' —(''[[{{{4|Talk}}}:Jozy Altidore#{{{section|Requested move}}}|Discuss]]'')— Jozy is his nickname, and Josmer seems to be commonly used these days —[[User:Smmurphy|Smmurphy]]<sup>([[User talk:Smmurphy|Talk]])</sup> 02:08, 5 September 2007 (UTC)