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Requested move 29 September 2018

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 section.

The result of the move request was: Moved - as BD2412 has noted, there doesn't appear to be a reason not to move this and as two weeks have now been given for dissent and nobody's come forward I'm opting to move instead of relist ad infinitum. Of course, if anybody subsequently objects, no prejudice against a speedy renomination to change it back. (closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 16:10, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bassetlaw → Bassetlaw District – Per WP:NATURAL and WP:COMMONNAME the district is usually called "Bassetlaw District"[1] in a generic context even though "Bassetlaw" is the preferred label by the OS, presumably when its clear from the context that you're referring to the district. The district is named after Bassetlaw Wapentake and this move is consistent with WP:UKDISTRICTS ("Non-metropolitan districts with local ambiguity...". Views [[2]] show that this gets less views than Bassetlaw (UK Parliament constituency) among others. Crouch, Swale (talk) 20:09, 29 September 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 20:03, 6 October 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. bd2412 T 11:09, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I can see no reason why this should not be moved as proposed. bd2412 T 13:31, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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