Wikipedia:Requested moves

For requested mergers, see Wikipedia:Proposed mergers. For removals, see Wikipedia:Guide to deletion.

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 proposals here 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 in this section and use {{subst:RMassist|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 re-list it in the #Incomplete and contested proposals section below.

• McMillan TAC-50 → McMillan Tac-50 — Per WP:MOSTM. — 69.234.105.202 (talk) 12:01, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Thunderbirds Are GO → Thunderbirds Are Go — Correct capitalisation as per MoS:TM. — McGeddon (talk) 14:42, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Honolulu County, Hawaii → City and County of Honolulu. There is no entity known as "Honolulu County," it officially exists as "City and County of Honolulu." --hoobershnooger 13:39, 13 Juny 2008 (UTC)

Incomplete and contested proposals

With the exception of a brief description of the problem or objection to the move request, please do not discuss move requests here. If you support an incomplete or contested move request, please consider following the instructions above to create a full move request, and move the discussion to the "Other Proposals" section below. Requests that remain incomplete after five days will be removed.

• Chevron (insignia) → Chevron — Page currently named Chevron (insignia) covers far more than just insignia, is a basic information page for the subject, ought to be first point of entry, i.e. no qualifier. — Cheers, Lindsay 20:30, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Or move Chevron (disambiguation) to Chevron? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:44, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, actually i had just moved it from Chevron to Chevron (disambiguation) then discovered i couldn't do the second one, the one i requested. It just seems to make more sense ~ apart from anything else, most links to Chevron, which are currently waiting to be disambiguated actually need to go to what is now Chevron (insignia). Cheers, Lindsay 20:57, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Chevron is now back where it started and this is only an issue of moving Chevron (insignia) → Chevron. I would oppose replacing a dab page with one that only covers a portion of the material and is not clearly established as the primary topic. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:18, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

• Dasavathaaram → Dasavatharam - A new editor moved pages without discussing changes. Thank you. Universal Hero (talk) 14:40, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Incomplete. JPG-GR (talk) 16:46, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Other proposals

16 June 2008

• Ordinal number (linguistics) → Ordinal number —(Discuss)— By far the most common use of the term --217.36.107.9 (talk) 12:06, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

  Enabling move: Ordinal number → Ordinal number (set theory). 217.36.107.9 (talk) 13:08, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

• South Korean media → Media of South Korea —(Discuss)— To conform with the other "Media of Asia" as per Template:Asia topic. Similar to move of Culture of South Korea --211.110.55.63 (talk) 10:52, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

• Mercia FM → Mercia (radio station) —(Discuss)— The content of the article states that the station's name has changed from Mercia FM to plain Mercia. The proposed move creates a name consistent with some other UK radio stations. --Lozleader (talk) 09:30, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

• Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin → Main Building (The University of Texas at Austin) —(Discuss)— I would like to move the article to Main Building (The University of Texas at Austin). The disambiguation page Main Building lists the other Main Buildings in the United States with their respective university's in parentheses. The University of Texas at Austin sites the name as Main Building and not Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin. Building Website. Memorial Stadium is a good example of this naming style that has already been used. Comments? --NThomas76207 (talk) 06:50, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

• Higashi-ikebukuro Station → Higashi-Ikebukuro Station —(Discuss)— While this does not appear to be explicitly stipulated in the MoS, the defacto standard format for Japanese station names is for the main part of the name ("Ikebukuro" in this case) to be capitalized when preceeded by a "North/South/East/West" prefix such as "Higashi-" here. My move from Higashi-ikebukuro Station to Higashi-Ikebukuro Station was reverted by the main editor of the article, and in doing so, he appears to have somehow messed up the histories, so an admin will probably need to look at and merge the histories, regardless of the outcome of this move request. --DAJF (talk) 01:20, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

• Moldovans → Moldavians —(Discuss)— Major sources refer to Moldavians as ethnicity as "Moldavians" and not as "Moldovans". Even when referred to a citizen of Moldova "Moldavian" is used as well --Moldopodo^talk 00:57, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

15 June 2008

• Counter-Reformation → Catholic Reformation —(Discuss)— Scholarly consensus is on the latter. Full rationale on talk page. --Pastordavid (talk) 18:30, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

• Old East Slavic → Old Russian —(Discuss)—Encyclopedia Britannica: Old Russian (language) - "Russian and the other East Slavic languages (Ukrainian, Belarusian) did not diverge noticeably from one another until the Middle Russian period (the late 13th to the 16th century). The term Old Russian is generally applied to the common East Slavic language in use before that time.". 308 results for "Old Russian language" in google books, 6 results for "Old East Slavic language" in google books. *87 results for "Old Russian language" in google scholar, 2 results for "Old East Slavic language" in google scholar. 963,000 google results for "Old Russian", 11,500 results for "Old East Slavic". Clearly, "Old Russian" is by far the more commonly used term --Berkunt (talk) 14:58, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

• Uniform Final Evaluation → Uniform Evaluation —(Discuss)— The name of the examination is Uniform Evaluation [[1]] Prior to being called the Uniform Evaluation, it was called the Uniform Final Examination. The current title seems to be a hodge-podge of the two names. --Fraud ^{talk to me} 06:58, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

• Orange Crush interchange → Orange Crush Interchange —(Discuss)— Requested move for a reason because it's a better name. --75.47.137.4 (talk) 05:53, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

• Tina Clayton Lord → Tina Lord —(Discuss)— Fictional character's common name, and credited as such in 13 June 2008 episode. --— TAnthony^Talk 05:47, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

• Righteous Among the Nations → Righteous among the Nations —(Discuss)— "Among" is a preposition, and prepositions are not capitalized in titles or in names of organizations or awards.--Nihil novi (talk) --02:47, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

14 June 2008

• Misakiguchi Station (Kanagawa) → Misakiguchi Station —(Discuss)— Since Misakiguchi Station (Tottori) was renamed (cf. ja:御崎口駅), there is no more need for disambiguation by prefecture name.--Sushiya (talk) 23:51, 14 June 2008 (UTC)}}

• Abingdon, Oxfordshire → Abingdon —(Discuss)— First, largest, and most important town with this name. Also the location of the famous Abingdon School and one of the oldest English towns with a valley fort dating to the Iron Age. --71.106.183.124 (talk) 22:41, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

• The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV series) → The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series —(Discuss)— The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series is the original title both in the title card at the end of the opening and in the website (evem Marvel Comics calls it so) and as you can see here wikipedia is the only one just calling it "The Spectacular Spider-man" with a disambiguation parenthesis, and looks quite clueless in contrast. I rest my case.--20-dude (talk) 22:01, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

• Moldavia → Principality of Moldavia —(Discuss)— The article should be renamed to Principality of Moldavia, as that's what first of all all the sources presented in the articles and the article itself are speaking of, secondly it's all logical as the article is namely about the precise historical political statal formation of Moldavia - Principality of Moldavia. --Moldopodo^talk 17:51, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

• Moldovan-Ukrainian relations → ? —(Discuss)— Moldavian-Ukrainian relations- Disagree with this unilateral move made by administrator User:Gutza, who has violated Divurgen arbitration enforcement - general restriction on numerous occasions on different talk pages related to Eastern Europe (the user himself is from Romania) and followed the path of the banned user for socket puppetry. But I'll come to this later. Fully agree with the statement of User:AjaxSmack "...name your articles precisely. If a word or phrase is ambiguous, and an article concerns only one of the meanings of that word or phrase, it should usually be titled with something more precise than just that word or phrase." and precisely for this reason disagree with the following of your statement, approving the controverisal unilateral move operated by the aforementioned user violating basic rules of civility and pushing through that what a banned user could not do. Moreover, the persoal interpretation added by the same user to the clear definitions and sources (in order to give them the "right" (in his view) reading) reminds me of trolling. Moldavia, since the Principality of Moldavia has always kept the form Moldavia. Even after the Prinicpality was split in two halfs, the half that was continued to be called Moldavia, was the only one that kept a statal form of organisation and always enjoyed autonomy, be it Russian Empire or Soviet Union, and had therefore the right to conduct international relations, which was the case, namely during Soviet times, Moldavia being a subject of a larger union. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the term Moldovan is sometimes used as alaso related to the Republic of Moldova, but there is nothing that makes it to prevail over Moldavian. When an article is written on bilateral relations, this encompasses a large part of history, including all statal forms Moldavia had, and therefore the term Moldavian is not only the most logical, but also the most widely used.—Moldopodo^talk 16:20, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

  For the record, the rationale for the move is explained on the respective talk page, and particularly here. Reading through the entire talk page would help understand the arguments and positions involved, as well as the merits of the accusations brought above. --Gutza ^{T T+} 17:28, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

• List of bus routes in London → List of London Buses routes —(Discuss)— Not all London bus routes covered. --Simply south (talk) 21:17, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

relist. Simply south (talk) 11:45, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

• Battle Athletes Victory → Battle Athletes —(Discuss)— Battle Athletes is the base name for both the OVA and TV series, the "Victory" part of the TV series's title is more of a way to distinguish it from the OVA series. --Farix (Talk) 11:40, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

• Newhall Pass interchange → Newhall Pass Interchange —(Discuss)— Requested move for a reason because it's a better name. --75.47.201.11 (talk) 02:15, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

• Spells of Dungeons & Dragons → Magic (Dungeons & Dragons) —(Discuss)— Article scope is broader than spells specifically, covering other aspects of the D&D magic system, and "spell" has a much narrower mearing in 4th edition than in earlier editions. - Gordon Ecker (talk) 02:12, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

13 June 2008

• Haptic → Haptic technology —(Discuss)— The word haptic is an adjective, and the article Haptic is actually about haptic technology. There are some other articles that use the adjective 'haptic', including Haptic perception and Haptic communication. Haptic technology currently redirects to Haptic, and it should be the other way around, I think.--Cooper24 (talk) 07:05, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

12 June 2008

• Rev. Henry Gordon → Henry Gordon — (Discuss)— The title of this page is not according to WP:NCNT and WP:NCWC: No styles in titles of articles. The style "Rev." has to be removed. Demophon (talk) 21:37, 12 June 2008 (UTC)Moved from below. — AjaxSmack 05:24, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Of course I'm in favor of moving the page (since I requested this move), however I have a remark: It seems there is already a page Henry Gordon, it's only for redirecting to the page Henry C. Gordon. Henry Charles Gordon was a USA astronaut. Only the page Debunker links to the page Henry Gordon. Therefore I want to suggest to remove this link (and change it to Henry C. Gordon) and to use the page 'Henry Gordon' entirely for describing the "Reverend Henry Gordon" instead. Demophon (talk) 12:48, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

My bust for not checking that. I still think that, with hatnotes, it's not controversial but, since there is C. Henry Gordon as well, let's move it back here to see. — AjaxSmack 15:56, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

There's also this page: Henry Gordon (disambiguation). Still, it's not a problem, because technically only one has the name 'Henry Gordon', the others have an extra given name. Demophon (talk) 16:55, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

• Chinese wén → Chinese cash (currency) —(Discuss)— Per WP:UE (use English for article titles), WP:UCN (use the most common name for article titles), WP:OR (no original research), and Numismatics Style guidelines (use the term for the currency that is most commonly used by standard English language sources.). The use of the romanization of the Chinese in this case appears to be largely a creation of Wikipedia. --— AjaxSmack 03:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

• Jiles Perry Richardson → The Big Bopper —(Discuss)— This is a biographic article about a notable musician whose birth name is not notable. He is commonly known as The Big Bopper, and his real name, Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr., is virtually unknown. Precedent for this is established by other cases where an artist is known exclusively by a stage name or pen name, such as Bono (Paul David Hewson), Sting (musician) (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner), and Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Wilhelm meis (talk) 01:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC) --Wilhelm meis (talk) 01:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

11 June 2008

• Your Mama Don't Dance (Poison song) → Your Mama Don't Dance —(Discuss)— The article is focusing too much on Poison's cover of the song; it needs to be introduced as a Loggins and Messina song (disambiguation in the title isn't needed, its a unique name), and then Poison should me mentioned. -Xnux the Echidna 22:48, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

• The Kingdom of the Lombards → Regnum Italiae —(Discuss)— Bad form (definite article), no good alternatives besides Latin, and the article is about more than just the Lombard kingdom. — Srnec (talk) 21:25, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

• A State of Trance → A State Of Trance —(Discuss)— This is how the name of the show is written, check its site. --Abdallah (talk) 20:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

• Samba (Brazilian dance) → Samba (dance) —(Discuss)— Samba (dance) currently redirects to samba (Brazilian dance). I think it is unnecessary for a more generic title to redirect to a more specific one. Wikipedia article titles should be as generic as possible, if no one specific article can be put into a generic title, it should be a disambiguation page. JIP | Talk 18:36, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

• Canberra International Airport → Canberra Airport —(Discuss)— The airport is known as Canberra Airport on it's website, Government, media and the Airport itself (the building). The Airport also has no direct international flights --Bidgee (talk) 14:40, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

• crying in humans → crying —(Discuss)— The meaning of "crying" pertains just about exclusively to what humans do. There are no confirmed reports of crying among animals, and cultural aspects of crying animals are limited to fables, folklore and proverbs. The latter aspects can be covered within the scope of a general article on crying. — Peter ^Isotalo 08:30, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Or move Crying (disambiguation) to Crying? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:58, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
    • I was the one who moved crying to a dabpage in preparation to what I assumed was very uncontroversial move request. The primary meaning of the term "crying" is defined in crying in humans. The only problem is that Nk.sheridan created the article under a separate title instead of under "crying". I see no reason why the other links currently in crying (disambiguation) should be considered to be of same relevance as the primary meaning. Peter ^Isotalo 09:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

• Association of Catholic Guides and Scouts of Italy → Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani —(Discuss)— see Talk:Association of Catholic Guides and Scouts of Italy#Requested move --jergen (talk) 07:22, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Backlog

Move dated sections here after five days have passed (September 9 or older).

• William II, German Emperor → Wilhelm II, German Emperor — (Discuss) - From all of the sources I've seen, he is more frequently referred to as Wilhelm (even in books where monarchs' names are frequently anglicanized). These sources include the World Book Encyclopedia, my World History Book from High School, and multiple other history books and school textbooks. He seems to be one of those exceptions. —Emperor001 (talk) 23:58, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

• William I, German Emperor → Wilhelm I, German Emperor — (Discuss) - From all of the sources I've seen, he is more frequently referred to as Wilhelm (even in books where monarchs' names are frequently anglicanized). These sources include the World Book Encyclopedia, my World History Book from High School, and multiple other history books and school textbooks. He seems to be one of those exceptions. —Emperor001 (talk) 23:58, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

• Mac OS X v10.6 → Mac OS X Snow Leopard —(Discuss)— Apple has not officially dubbed this future release "10.6" --Asmeurer (talk ♬ contribs) 17:11, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

• Holy Wars... the Punishment Due → Holy Wars... The Punishment Due —(Discuss)— I'm fairly sure "The Punishment Due" is the subtitle of the song, and first words in subtitles are capitalized as per WP:CAPS. --Xnux the Echidna 15:15, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

• Pseudocyesis → False pregnancy —(Discuss)— False pregnancy is the common term for both pseudocyesis, which is the medical term commonly used in humans, and pseudopregnancy, which is the medical term commonly used in animals. Since pseudocyesis is uncommon, and pseudopregnancy is common in research and veterinary medicine, the title of the page should at least encompass pseudopregnancy. --199.125.109.134 (talk) 15:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC) Request made by --Laplacian54 (talk) 13:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

• Liga Mexicana de Beisbol → Mexican League - (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball#Liga Mexicana de Beisbol)- The name in English is Mexican League, and the name on the official website at minor league baseball is Mexican League. There is another baseball league called the Mexican Pacific League. But I believe this is uncontroversial because the current page Mexican League is really only a disambig, this can be fixed with a 'see also' link on the page after the move is completed. I put this in requested because there is edit history in the Mexican League page. Thanks. ----Borgarde^talk 11:03, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

• The Day the Music Died → ? —(Discuss)— This article is about the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, etc, but the title is taken from the song American Pie. I don't find that title suitable; it's meaningful for the song but not for an encyclopedia article. —199.125.109.134 (talk) 16:11, 10 June 2008 (UTC) Requested by Tamajared (talk) 04:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

• Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia → Heroes of Might and Magic III —(Discuss)— This is a long-standing issue and I don't believe that suitable attention was brought to it when polls were conducted in the past. I would like to see some real discussion and consensus reached. In short, my own reason for requesting this move is that I have not seen convincing evidence that the use of a subtitle is either canonical or common, and in addition doing so artificially limits the scope of the article. --Ham Pastrami (talk) 01:29, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

• List of Sega Mega Drive and Sega Genesis games → List of Sega Mega Drive games —(Discuss)— For continuity with the main article, Sega Mega Drive. Also, discussion has turned up a consensus on the talk page for this move for various reasons. --Red Phoenix ^{flame of life...protector of all...} 03:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

• VHSIC Hardware Description Language → VHDL —(Discuss)— "VHDL" is what the language is commonly known as, and was agreed by consensus in Sep 2006. It was renamed back without consensus in Jan 2008. --Peter Ballard (talk) 02:54, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

• KMEZ → KKND — (Discuss) —- This station flipped callsign from KMEZ to KKND by it's owner. KKND became KXOS with callsign change as of May 29,2008. Cut and paste was made on KKND page as article existed and now reflects current location Mjr346 (talk) 01:32, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

• Intensive insulinotherapy → Flexible insulin therapy —(Discuss)— Clarity --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:04, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

• World Chess Championship/Gallery → ? —(Discuss)— Subpages in Mainspace are not good practice —SyG (talk) 20:13, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year → Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than two years —(Discuss)— The list has not been updated in almost one year, and there is no serious effort to do so. --Chubbles (talk) 20:10, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

• Crypto-Calvinism → Gnesio-Lutherans —(Discuss)— Crypto-Calvinism is an "accusation" from non-Calvinists, the article is mainly about opposing views against Philippism. --Said: Rursus ☻ 18:23, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

• Psycho-biddy → Grande Dame Guignol —(Discuss)— Current term doesn't seem to exist outside of Wikipedia --VinnieRattolle

• Kirant → Kirat —(Discuss)— 'Kirat' is the officially recognized spelling for the article Kirant. 'Kirat' is the widely used spelling at present in national and international documents. See also two social organizations Kirat Rai Yayokkha and Kirat Yakthung Chumlung. --TheDreamSky (talk) 11:30, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

• The Great Hunger → ? —(Discuss)— Consensus forming to change the current title, discussion and straw poll taking place on the Talk page as to what the title should be —Bardcom (talk) 11:24, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

• Ronald Gërçaliu → Ronald Gercaliu —(Discuss)— He became famous with the German spelling of his name. So the page had to start with: Ronald Gercaliu (Albanian: Ronald Gërçaliu, born February 12, 1986) -- Doma-w (talk) 10:07, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

• Łukta (village) → Łukta —(Discuss)— relisting; was discussed before and agreement apparently reached, but not acted on because discussion was in wrong place --Kotniski (talk) 07:24, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

• Fire monitor → ? —(Discuss)— choosing the most suitable name for this subject —Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:35, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

• Macedonian parliamentary election, 2008 → Republic of Macedonia parliamentary election, 2008 —(Discuss)— Un-ambiguous, un-controversial, consistent and non-offensive title. --NikoSilver 21:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

And let's not forget all the other election articles: Macedonian parliamentary election, 1998, Macedonian parliamentary election, 2002, Macedonian parliamentary election, 2006, Macedonian presidential election, 2004 and Macedonian autonomy referendum, 2004, which already fall under the more appropriately-named Category:Elections in the Republic of Macedonia. ·ΚΕΚΡΩΨ· (talk) 23:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Not sure - seems to be a lot of politics in this one. This one should go to a wider discussion as there are two very polarised sides and both of them make fair points. Orderinchaos 11:56, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

• Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk) → Teutonic takeover of Gdańsk —(Discuss)— Logic of events (Teutonic Knights took over Gdańsk and changed the name to Danzig, so Danzig itself was not taken over...). Also, double naming is not preferable. Details on article's talk page. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

This article is victim of move warring. Well before 1308, the city with German merchants and German Lübeck law rights was known as Danzig (Danceke, Dantzike), thus the article had been created as Teutonic takeover of Danzig according to history and the vote policy. The current double name was recently selected by admin Gwen Gale. BTW, the Teutonic Knights were called in as allies of the Polish king, and opposed the local German merchants.-- Matthead  Discuß   10:57, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

• Duanwu Festival → Dragon Boat Festival —(Discuss)— The article should be moved to Dragon Boat Festival as per Wikipedia naming convention of 'Use English Words' and 'Use common names of person and things' --Mr.Clown (talk) 11:34, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

• Phillipe Aumont → Phillippe Aumont —(Discuss)— He is listed as "Phillippe" (2 L's, 2 P's) under the list of 2007 Draft picks on the Mariners' official site, and a recent article regarding his progress in Class A minor league ball also has his name spelt as "Phillippe" --Pandacomics (talk) 08:29, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

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• Mother Supreme Council of the World → Supreme Council, Scottish Rite (Southern Jurisdiction, USA) —(Discuss)— Current name is not commonly used. The proposed new name is far more common name for the entity. --Blueboar (talk) 18:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

• Livonian Order → Teutonic Order in Livonia (Discuss). — The current name of this article is not clear. This military organization was not a separate Order. — Albert Krantz (talk) 17:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC).

• Taoism → Daoism —(Discuss)— I think it's time to propose a move to Daoism. While in the past, the Wade-Giles spelling of 'Taoism' had undoubtedly been more popular, the pinyin spelling 'Daoism' has recently begun to be more widely used than in the past. Wikipedia has conflicting policies on the use the spelling 'Taoism'. The Wikipedia:Manual of Style (China-related articles) convention is to "use pinyin not Wade-Giles" However, the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) is to "Use the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things." The first guideline is clear on the preference for pinyin, but the second is up to interpretation. I am strongly in favour of changing the article name, mostly because it better reflects the correct pronunciation of 道 (dao). Pinyin is already used for almost every other loan word for Chinese, why not for Daoism? --Zeus1234 (talk) 00:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

• Diacritics in tennis player names
  • For multiple proposal and very long discussion, see this subpage.

• Point Reyes Lighthouse → Point Reyes Light —(Discuss)— Convention for US lighthouses is "XX Light"; latter is occupied by a redirect. --Mangoe (talk) 14:34, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
  • This proposal is contested. (See Talk:Point Reyes Lighthouse.) The name change is contrary to both Wikipedia:Naming conventions and WP:NRHP. It would also get in the way of moving The Point Reyes Light to Point Reyes Light, where it belongs to comply with the Naming conventions.--Hjal (talk) 08:25, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Further note that User:Hjal is in essence calling for the renaming of virtually all US lighthouse articles. Mangoe (talk) 11:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
  • "Point Reyes Light" is the name of a lighthouse and the name of a newspaper. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:35, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
    • That is precisely the problem: they used the name of the light for the paper. Mangoe (talk) 00:47, 16 June 2008 (UTC)