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Need assistance explaining COMMONNAME

There is an issue at Talk:Family Force 5‎‎#Requested move 2 March 2018. The band has been reduced to a duo, and they are going by "FF5" now. One editor, with fewer than 500 edits decided to move the article to FF5 (duo), and I pointed to COMMONNAME when restoring it. A new editor, whose only edits have been to that discussion, has sided with the original editor, but they don't seem to have the same understanding of COMMONNAME as I do. Could someone please clarify what it means there? Walter Görlitz (talk) 08:04, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NYC subway station naming convention

There is a discussion about the NYC subway station naming convention at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/New York City Subway/Station naming convention#Unnecessary and overlong "disambiguation" parentheticals to station complexes. -- JHunterJ (talk) 13:24, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gay lisp article -- what to title it

At Talk:Gay lisp, we need some opinions on what to title the article. One recent move discussion section was made before I made this one. The article is likely to go through a WP:Requested moves discussion. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 23:13, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback requested for proposed rename of Entwurf eines Cannabiskontrollgesetzes

Your feedback about a proposed rename of Entwurf eines Cannabiskontrollgesetzes is requested at the move discussion page Talk:Entwurf eines Cannabiskontrollgesetzes#Requested move 6 May 2018. No German needed, but your AT guideline savvy is! Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 02:40, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 10 May 2018

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In WP:NATURALDIS, the article uses Mechanical fan as an example. It is now called Fan (machine). Can you please change that in this section of the article? 75.67.58.188 (talk) 10:23, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]