Talk:2012 Unity Day parade rehearsal bombing

AQIM

The Background section needs to be changed from AQIM to AQAP. The source cited explicitly references AQAP, and AQIM does not operate in the Arabian Peninsula. Piripero (talk) 17:07, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Agreed--thanks for the catch. Khazar2 (talk) 18:14, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 27 November 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: 1) descriptive and general titles using "Sanaa" are not moved to versions using an apostrophe or ayin, per the discussion below. 2) Descriptive and general titles using the ayin or apostrophe are moved to titles using "Sanaa"; these are 2012 Sanaa bombing, Battle of Sanaa, and Timeline of Sanaa, per the discussion below and for consistency with Sanaa. 3) Sanaa Governorate, while a proper name, is also moved per the discussion below and for consistency with Sanaa. 4) No consensus in the current move request to move other titles involving proper names as a group, because consistency is not the only (or perhaps primary) concern in those cases. It may have been difficult to gauge consensus for moves in those cases given the setup of the current request. I suggest handling them separately as necessary, and new requests for those can be opened at any time. Dekimasuよ! 04:49, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Redirects from titles with the ayin or apostrophe should be created where appropriate, and help would be appreciated to do so. Dekimasuよ! 04:53, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

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• 2012 Sanaʽa bombing → 2012 Sana'a bombing
• 2013 Sanaa attack → 2013 Sana'a attack
• 2015 Sanaa mosque bombings → 2015 Sana'a mosque bombings
• 2016 Sanaa funeral airstrike → 2016 Sana'a funeral airstrike
• Al Shohada Mosque (Sanaa) → Al Shohada Mosque (Sana'a)
• Al-Ahli Club Sanaa → Al-Ahli Club Sana'a
• Al-Jahiliyah, Sanaa → Al-Jahiliyah, Sana'a
• Al-Kharabah, Sanaa → Al-Kharabah, Sana'a
• Al-Manar, Sanaa → Al-Manar, Sana'a
• Al-Masajid, Sanaa → Al-Masajid, Sana'a
• Al-Qarah, Sanaa → Al-Qarah, Sana'a
• Al-Qasim, Sanaa → Al-Qasim, Sana'a
• Al-Qufl, Sanaa → Al-Qufl, Sana'a
• Al-Watan, Sanaa → Al-Watan, Sana'a
• Al-Wehda SCC (Sanaa) → Al-Wehda SCC (Sana'a)
• Al–Qalis Church, Sanaa → Al–Qalis Church, Sana'a
• Ar Rawdah, Sanaa → Ar Rawdah, Sana'a
• Ash Sharaf, Sanaa → Ash Sharaf, Sana'a
• Battle of Sanaa (2011) → Battle of Sana'a (2011)
• Battle of Sanaa (2014) → Battle of Sana'a (2014)
• Battle of Sanaa (2017) → Battle of Sana'a (2017)
• Battle of Sanaʽa → Battle of Sana'a
• Great Mosque of Sanaa → Great Mosque of Sana'a
• Hadda, Sanaa → Hadda, Sana'a
• Hadrami, Sanaa → Hadrami, Sana'a
• January 2015 Sanaa bombing → January 2015 Sana'a bombing
• List of mosques in Sanaa → List of mosques in Sana'a
• Numayr, Sanaa → Numayr, Sana'a
• Pakistan School Sanaʽa → Pakistan School Sana'a
• Sanaa → Sana'a
• Sanaʽa (patrol vessel) → Sana'a (patrol vessel)
• Sanaʽa British School → Sana'a British School
• Sanaʽa Governorate → Sana'a Governorate
• Sanaʽa Institute for the Arabic Language → Sana'a Institute for the Arabic Language
• Sanaʽa International Airport → Sana'a International Airport
• Sanaa International School → Sana'a International School
• Sanaa manuscript → Sana'a manuscript
• Sanaa Turkish Memorial Cemetery → Sana'a Turkish Memorial Cemetery
• Siege of Sanaa (570) → Siege of Sana'a (570)
• Siege of Sanaa (1967) → Siege of Sana'a (1967)
• St. Mary Help of Christians Church, Sanaa → St. Mary Help of Christians Church, Sana'a
• Tahrir Square, Sanaa → Tahrir Square, Sana'a
• Timeline of Sanaʽa → Timeline of Sana'a
• University of Science and Technology, Sanaa → University of Science and Technology, Sana'a
• Wasit, Sanaa → Wasit, Sana'a

– See preparation at Talk:Sanaa#Preparing multi, part 2 (after RM closure). Attempt at harmonising all article titles which have the name of Yemen's capital (or its Governorate) in their article title: the multi RM was recommended by the closer of a RM recently held at Talk:Sanaa#Requested move 14 November 2019. See discussions in that closed RM for why this was initiated. Reasons why the current format is proposed in this RM: (1) All related categories currently have the name in this format, i.e. Category:Sana'a Governorate, Category:Geography of Sana'a Governorate, Category:Districts of Sana'a Governorate, Category:Populated places in Sana'a Governorate, Category:Villages in Sana'a Governorate, Category:People from Sana'a Governorate, Category:People from Sana'a, Category:Sana'a, Category:Buildings and structures in Sana'a, Category:Crime in Sana'a, Category:History of Sana'a, Category:Centuries in Sana'a, Category:20th century in Sana'a, Category:21st century in Sana'a, Category:Military history of Sana'a, Category:Media in Sana'a, Category:Sport in Sana'a, Category:Sana'a Governorate geography stubs and Category:Mosques in Sana'a; (2) This format is reasonably common, e.g. UNESCO World Heritage List, official website of the Sana'a Institute for the Arabic Language (SIAL), etc, etc (of course many more examples could be given); (3) The Sanaa version of the name almost never occurs. Francis Schonken (talk) 18:38, 27 November 2019 (UTC) —Relisting. Wug·a·po·des​ 03:21, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Survey

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this subsection with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.

• (OP) support, except for Sanaa International School which should stay where it currently is – while looking around during the previous RM I gradually came to see that the Sanaa version of the name almost never occurs (any more?). The ayin version, likewise, is almost never seen (the UNESCO World Heritage Site website search engine doesn't even find "Sanaʽa", that is the ayin version). --Francis Schonken (talk) 18:43, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
  • FYI, per WP:RMCOMMENT Nomination already implies that the nominator supports the name change, and nominators should refrain from repeating this recommendation on a separate bulleted line. Colin M (talk) 20:00, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
    • I was not "repeating the recommendation", but had to explain what changed since my !vote in the previous RM, and that explanation had little relevance on the WP:RM page itself (where the nomination rationale is copied), so I duly marked my !vote with "(OP)" to avoid confusion for the closer of this RM. And also, what you quote has an explanatory footnote (which you failed to mention), in that footnote: "... Additional detail, such as sources, may also be provided in an additional bullet point if its inclusion in the nomination statement would make the statement unwieldy. Please remember that the entire nomination statement is transcluded into the list on this page." (my emphasis) – indeed the nomination rationale was already unwieldy enough as is. As I said, my (OP) !vote seems, afaict, procedurally OK, and I'd leave it to the closer of the RM to give a remark upon the point if not. --Francis Schonken (talk) 01:04, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Updated my !vote with one exception, see #Discussion area below for detailed rationale. --Francis Schonken (talk) 08:59, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

• Support I dont know why should it be "Sanaʽa", I dont think there is any problem with "Sana'a" and seems to be used regularly in the media.--SharabSalam (talk) 23:02, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose -- should be 'Sanaa' instead. The result of the move request for the main article was to Sanaa. All other pages should therefor be moved to "Sanaa" as well, to harmonize with the main article. "Sana'a" is incorrect coding-wise, as that's an ayin (a letter) in the name, not an apostrophe (punctuation). There's no punctuation in the name, and per Unicode conventions, punctuation should be used for punctuation and letters should be used for letters. If we do want to retain the ayin, then we should use the correct form, "Sanaʽa".

If we want to have the ayin in our titles, then we should revert the recent move of Sanaa.

The fact that online sources use ASCII punctuation is a reflection of the sloppy typography commonly found online. It's not a good argument for us to be sloppy too.

Exceptions should be made for places that have English names. Sanaʽa British School, for example, has an ayin (a consonant, not a punctuation mark!), and so should stay where it is. Sanaʽa Institute for the Arabic Language may also be the formal English name, and if so should stay where it is, but if it's just a translation, then it should be moved to "Sanaa", per the city. Same for Sanaʽa (patrol vessel). Sanaa International School is also the English spelling per their website, and should stay where it is, without an ayin. — kwami (talk) 05:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose - the recent RM had the 'parent' article moved to Sanaa, so these articles should reflect that spelling. GiantSnowman 10:12, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose – The proper Arabic name for the city is Ṣanʿāʾ (صَنْعَاء), not Sana'a, so in the English language, Sanaa without any diacritics makes better sense, and if one wants to know how it's properly pronounced in Arabic, then they can look it up here. Leo1pard (talk) 06:17, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

Any additional comments:

• There's an ongoing discussion at WT:AT about general policy regarding apostrophe-like characters in titles (which nominator has been involved in since before opening this RM). It would be nice if we could wait for that discussion to resolve before handling such a massive multi-RM on the topic. Colin M (talk) 19:56, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
  • On the contrary, it has been said multiple times, and by multiple persons, also in that WT:AT discussion, that the WP:AT policy follows the outcome of WP:RM procedures, and not the other way around. The policy is not going to be rewritten to please anyone's stance in the above RM, and push the outcome of that RM in their favour, so it's rather the RM that should be concluded before talks regarding a possible change to the policy can lead to an effective policy change, that is, in paragraphs that are relevant to this RM. For clarity, policy changes following RM results are usually only possible if there's a solid consensus showing in the RM. By the looks of it, that is speaking at a moment when the !votes are exactly 50/50, no solid consensus either way seems to be forming (let's hope it does though), which means that the policy probably won't change either way as a result of this RM. In other words, the policy regarding apostrophe(-like) variants in article titles is what it is, so live with it, at least till the end of this RM. --Francis Schonken (talk) 00:49, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Some clarifications:

• Sanaa → Sana'a

Indeed, a recent page move decided on "Sanaa", but only because editors like me supported that option during the recent RM. I didn't "count" the !votes while the RM was ongoing, and surely would still have changed my !vote if I'd have thought it would have closed on anything else than "indecisive, conduct multi-RM". I was too busy preparing the multi-RM, which was coming anyway, to notice what way the !vote was going in the RM. The thing should be considered afresh, with the evidence we have now, instead of being based on a !vote which is history, and was based on an incomplete picture. --Francis Schonken (talk) 08:59, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

• Sanaʽa (patrol vessel) → Sana'a (patrol vessel)

confirming that the article should be moved back to Sana'a (patrol vessel). This document writes "Yemen Coast Guard Vessel Sana’a sank ...", using the curly apostrophe character, which in Wikipedia is written using the straight apostrophe character (see below). Couldn't find much other official-looking documents about the vessel. "... sloppy typography ..." type of comments (as given above in the #Survey section) must be rejected: too much of a "righting great wrongs" kind of approach, which is commonly rejected as a valid reasoning in Wikipedia talk page discussions (see WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS). Wikipedia follows sources (see the WP:NOR policy), and has no judgement, moral or otherwise, on how these sources choose their spelling. --Francis Schonken (talk) 08:59, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

• Sanaʽa British School → Sana'a British School

The school itself writes Sana’a British School ([1]), using an apostrophe character between the two "a" characters. Wikipedia's style guidance, following the official recommendations of the Unicode manual, is to use the simple (straight) apostrophe glyph instead of the curly one. It should certainly not be changed to the {{okina}} character, that is, as in the spelling where the page was moved to recently (i.e.: Sanaʽa British School), so continue my support for the proposed page move. --Francis Schonken (talk) 08:59, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

• Sanaʽa Institute for the Arabic Language → Sana'a Institute for the Arabic Language

The RM proposal is indeed supported by the Institute's website (see above), also on their English-language pages (see various links in references and elswhere at the Wikipedia article on the Institute): should indeed be Sana'a Institute for the Arabic Language, spelled with a straight apostrophe, and not with a {{okina}}. --Francis Schonken (talk) 08:59, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

• Sanaa International School → Sana'a International School

Above someone wrote "Sanaa International School is also the English spelling per their website, ..." – incorrect: the school has ceased operations and no longer has a website. The *former* website is available at archive.org, and indeed spells "Sanaa". The umbrella organisation of the former shool still has a webpage on the school: http://gold2.qsi.org/yem/ – indeed also spelling Sanaa. So whether or not the shool would have updated to another spelling of Yemen's capital is speculation, and the article title should indeed stay at Sanaa International School. --Francis Schonken (talk) 08:59, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.