Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests

If you are unable to complete a move for technical reasons, you can request technical help below. This is the correct method if you tried to move a page, but you got an error message saying something like "You do not have permission to move this page, for the following reasons:..." or "The/This page could not be moved, for the following reason:..."

• To list a technical request: the Uncontroversial technical requests subsection and insert the following code at the bottom of the list, filling in pages and reason:

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Uncontroversial technical requests

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• MacFarlan Smith → Veranova (currently a redirect back to MacFarlan Smith) (move · discuss) – Company appears to have rebranded. A statement on their website reads "Macfarlan Smith Limited is trading as Veranova in the United Kingdom". MacFarlan Smith should become a redirect to Veranova. 81.187.192.168 (talk) 15:38, 15 February 2024 (UTC) 81.187.192.168 (talk) 15:38, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Is this the new WP:COMMONNAME? -Kj cheetham (talk) 14:47, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
• Crush (soft drink) (currently a redirect to Crush (drink)) → Crush (drink) (move · discuss) – WP:CONDAB ("drink" is the general CONDAB for drinks, regardless of type of drink, and wines and beers are probably the only exception to that, not soft drinks), WP:OVERPRECISION, WP:CONCISE. This is the only Crush drink article. —Alalch E. 23:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

  Pinging David Levy, who moved this article to it's current title from Crush (beverage). --Ahecht (TALK
  PAGE) 14:23, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

  @Ahecht: Please note that "beverage" was disfavored as a disambiguator, and "drink" was recognized as the CONDAB in this 29 December 2023 mass-RM which moved all "beverage"-disambiguated drinks articles to the "drink" disambiguator. So going back to "beverage" is not something that should happen. —Alalch E. 15:24, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

  If (drink) is now the community's preferred disambiguator, I have no objection to the requested move. —David Levy 01:43, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

• Recognition of same-sex unions in Greece (currently a redirect to Same-sex marriage in Greece) → Same-sex marriage in Greece (move · discuss) – Same-sex marriage legislation passed by the Hellenic Parliament on 15 February 2024. Discover Earth Mysteries (talk) 17:49, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri lect (currently a redirect to Bishnupriya Manipuri) → Bishnupriya Manipuri (move · discuss) – more concise PepperBeast (talk) 21:02, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Requests to revert undiscussed moves

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Contested technical requests

Do not insert new requests in this section. Only move requests here if the requested move has been contested.

• Te Felicito (Shakira and Rauw Alejandro song) → Te Felicito (move · discuss) – Due to WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Flabshoe1 (talk) 15:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

@Flabshoe1: I'm not so sure this is uncontroversial. The other song's article might not be anywhere near as fleshed out, but was also a number one on a chart. Where has this been determined to be the primary topic? Please start a move discussion. Ss112 17:56, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Oppose, recentism. 162 etc. (talk) 16:37, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

• The Sweet → Sweet (band) (currently a redirect back to The Sweet) (move · discuss) – Their actual name. They havent been called The Sweet since the 1970s (see article) - FMSky (talk) 04:56, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Previously rejected in a 2020 RM (Talk:The Sweet#Requested move 3 September 2020); not uncontroversial. 162 etc. (talk) 06:57, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

It is true that the band used both versions of the name throughout their career, causing great confusion now. But see the 2020 move discussion, in which knowledgeable editors favored the current situation because "The" serves as a natural ambiguator without awkward parentheses. Also, if someone searches for simply "Sweet" they may be interested in many other things besides the band, as seen at the lengthy Sweet (disambiguation). The editors who opposed the same move in 2020 used the correct reasoning, for technical purposes at least. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:53, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

FMSky If you still want to pursue this, you'll need to open a full WP:RM discussion via the "discuss" link, or remove the request from here if not. -Kj cheetham (talk) 14:49, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

• Elif Elmas → Eljif Elmas (currently a redirect back to Elif Elmas) (move · discuss) – Moved without discussion Robby.is.on (talk) 22:48, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

8 moves between the two titles since 2021 though. – robertsky (talk) 01:16, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Right. Current club has "Eljif" (https://rbleipzig.com/de/profis/team/eljif-elmas/), previous did, too (https://web.archive.org/web/20230504235607/https://sscnapoli.it/en/player-details/?id=20661). And the mover's rationale, "Original Turkish name", seems nonsensical for a North Macedonian player. Robby.is.on (talk) 02:16, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Move history is:

• 11 June 2017‎ - created as Elif Elmas
• 16 March 2021‎ - moved to Eljif (after 1374 days)
• 31 March 2021‎ - reverted to Elif (after 15 days)
• 25 April 2021‎ - moved to Eljif (after 25 days)
• 29 May 2021‎ - reverted to Elif (after 34 days)
• 24 November 2022‎ - moved to Eljif (after 544 days)
• 7 January 2023‎ - reverted to Elif (after 44 days)
• 23 December 2023‎ - moved to Eljif (after 350 days)
• 13 February 2024‎ - reverted to Elif (after 52 days)

So overall, given that it (a) was created as Elif, and (b) has spent far longer there, and (c) the most recent move away from that title was only a couple of months ago, after almost a year of stability, I think it's clear that Elif Elmas, the current name, is the long-term stable title and this is not a valid request to revert an undiscussed move. If a move away from that is desired, it should go through an RM discussion.  — Amakuru (talk) 11:55, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Robby.is.on please open a full WP:RM if wanting to pursue this, via the "discuss" link. Thanks. -Kj cheetham (talk) 14:53, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

• G.T. Dhungel (currently a redirect to G. T. Dhungel) → Gay Tshering Dhungel (currently a redirect instead to G. T. Dhungel) (move · discuss) – WP:COMMONNAME IJohnKennady (talk) 12:19, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Evidence of the full name being common? Side note, should be G. T. Dhungel if initials are the common name. Bensci54 (talk) 12:26, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

• B. B. Gurung → Bhim Bahadur Gurung (currently a redirect instead to Bhim Gurung) (move · discuss) – WP:COMMONNAME IJohnKennady (talk) 12:23, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Evidence of the full name being common? Bensci54 (talk) 12:26, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

• – That's the correct way to write his name source and in Persian names you always have to drop the last part, all Persian sources know him only as Hossein Mahmoudi. Sports2021 (talk) 02:59, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

The linked source uses the full name. English Wikipedia cares what is in English-language sources. Bensci54 (talk) 13:38, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

• Hankook Tire (currently a redirect to Hankook) → Hankook (move · discuss) – WP:COMMONAME B4081 (talk) 22:35, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

  @B4081: Hankook Tire does seem to be the common name. (Hankook seems to be an alternative spelling of Hanguk). As a minimum, this requires discussion. Station1 (talk) 22:52, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Nominator comment, pending a discussion at redirects for discussion being closed, propose closing with no further action. B4081 (talk) 23:37, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

• Fruition (company) (currently a redirect to Fruition) → Fruition (move · discuss) – There's two companies with Fruition "(Company)" with a capital "C" and lowercase "c" that are two separate articles Coreykam (talk) 04:55, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

The requested page is now at Fruition (fashion company). This seems to be a primary topic grab. Per WP:ONEOTHER, I would have moved Fruition (digital marketing agency) back to the basename, but page links at the basename indicates that there may be more topics with the same name. – robertsky (talk) 02:02, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

• SHAZAM (software) (currently a redirect to Shazam (econometrics software)) → Shazam (software) (currently a redirect instead to Shazam) (move · discuss) – Does not appear to be an initialism. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 20:09, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

  It sort of is. The software is named after the magic word SHAZAM used by Billy Batson to transform into the Captain Marvel in the DC Comics (not to be confused with Captain Marvel in the Marvel comics), which is an initialism for Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury. --Ahecht (TALK
  PAGE) 21:11, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

  I'll note that without the DIFFCAPS, Shazam (software) is definitely ambiguous with Shazam (application). 162 etc. (talk) 02:34, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

• 'Ala' al-Dawla Simnani → Ala al-Dawla Simnani (currently a redirect back to 'Ala' al-Dawla Simnani) (move · discuss) – Unnecessary apostrophes. Aintabli (talk) 04:55, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

• The sources in that article, as well as a majority of Google search results, use the apostrophes. --Ahecht (TALK
  PAGE) 14:57, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

• Fifth Season (production company) (currently a redirect to Fifth Season (company)) → Fifth Season (currently a redirect instead to The Fifth Season) (move) – No article starting with "fifth season" in any capitalization. A hatnote will do. Nardog (talk) 02:09, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

• Just a note that Fifth Season was a redirect to The Fifth Season until today. --Ahecht (TALK
  PAGE) 14:21, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

  The novel seems to have a pretty solid number of pageviews with a daily average of 725 over all time, with the production company article being too new to compare, but the lack of the word "The" might be relevant enough for the production company to win here, depending on how anybody feels about WP:SMALLDIFFS ASUKITE 15:42, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

  Oppose this primary topic grab. 162 etc. (talk) 16:37, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

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