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Requested move 8 March 2023

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– Yahoo! Sports, Fox Sports, NBC Sports, ESPN, the Associated Press and USA Today all refer to them as just the "Charleston Cougars." I think that's a pretty strong consensus that it's the WP:COMMONNAME now, so let's get these (and all other subpages associated with Charleston Cougars athletics) moved to that name. Tom Danson (talk) 12:37, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Many sources use "College of Charleston Cougars" as well: CBS Sports; The Post and Courier; The Philadelphia Inquirer; Sports Illustrated. Lots of books use the longer name also. Other sources use both - often with the longer name on first reference, and the shorter name thereafter: Bleacher Report; College of Charleston; The Washington Post. This kind of split argues for the status quo. Dohn joe (talk) 18:27, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
1. CBS Sports is rather inconsistent; on team pages it says "College of Charleston," on scoreboards and standings pages it just says "Charleston."

2. The Post and Courier is the local newspaper, so it uses "College of" to disambiguate from other schools in the city (such as Charleston Southern, The Citadel, etc.)

3. The Philadelphia Inquirer seems a random choice for a newspaper to list.

4. The SI artcle you quoted was a specific article for the University of Kentucky, and the graphic brackets it liks to list them as "Charleston".

5. Most of the books you quoted predate the CofC rebranding their athletic programs as "Charleston" in 2013.

If anything, such a split argues that we use the school's official branding as the "tie-breaker," and its official branding is as the "Charleston Cougars," as you can see from a good sampling of headlines on the official site. (it lists "College of Charleston" only when referring to the university itself). Tom Danson (talk) 21:17, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The college uses both. Search for the college's athletics program, and it will preview as "The official athletics website for the College of Charleston Cougars." Dohn joe (talk) 20:13, 10 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - The graphic bracket in that SI link is from ESPN.com, but the SI.com team page does call them just "Charleston." fuzzy510 (talk) 04:10, 10 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]