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Requested move

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The following discussion is an archived 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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus. —Darkwind (talk) 03:21, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]



Downtown (Nevada gaming area)Gaming in Downtown Las Vegas – Per use common names policy, this should be Gaming in Downtown Las Vegas. Also, the current title is ambiguous, since Reno also has a downtown gaming area that is in Nevada. While the tourist bureau promotes it as just "downtown", this title is purely promotional and, like many promotional names, quite ambiguous. If there is natural disambiguation, we use it, and here we have it.relisted --Mike Cline (talk) 14:16, 28 November 2012 (UTC) Ego White Tray (talk) 04:56, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is one of those cases where we need to create a descriptive title, since the official title is entirely insufficient. In fact, when I first created this proposal, it was to move to Downtown Las Vegas, since the current title implies that this is the article on downtown. It is, instead, a subtopic of Downtown Las Vegas, and my proposal is the standard format for titling subtopics. Ego White Tray (talk) 13:20, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
You do know that not all of these casinos are downtown, right? That would make your proposed title misleading. Vegaswikian (talk) 17:55, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
That's why we can't be strict with official boundaries, since they often make no sense. Ego White Tray (talk) 02:57, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Anyways, the practice is that you title the article with a common name and then explain how it's defined. For example, "The Las Vegas tourism bureau defines the downtown gaming area as..." Something like that, which is standard for any article like this anyway. This is also worth doing to allow alternate definitions - you could mention next that some of the casinos are not considered downtown by other definitions. Ego White Tray (talk) 03:02, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
And the common name is simply Downtown, or occasionally Downtown Las Vegas, in the monthly news reports when the data is released. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:36, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
When we say common name, we mean the common name used everywhere. "Downtown" is only used as a common name by sources in Las Vegas, for obvious reasons. That leaves Downtown Las Vegas as the common name, and Gaming as the sub-topic, leading to the title Gaming in Downtown Las Vegas. Ego White Tray (talk) 20:15, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Good point, 213. Exactly right. Ego White Tray (talk) 13:20, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Agree, gambling is better than gaming. Ego White Tray (talk) 03:31, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
There is also the problem that Gaming is ambiguous, and can mean several things, mostly untrelated to Gambling. Skinsmoke (talk) 07:28, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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.

Missing Casinos

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The article is missing: Golden Gate Hotel and Casino, Gold Spike Hotel and Casino, Mermaids Casino and La Bayou. Also the Stratosphere is usually never included in the listing of Downtown casinos, as it is on the Vegas Strip. Mikepellerin (talk) 00:12, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is only one Nevada state gaming district that covers the city. This is the article for that and it includes the Strat which is not actually on the strip. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:50, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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