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Requested move 2 June 2018[edit]

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Move. Cúchullain ^t/c 16:57, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Local services board (Ontario) → Local services board – No disambiguation necessary. 72.139.206.172 (talk) 20:39, 2 June 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. Dekimasuよ! 10:47, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:43, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There are many such bodies with similar names and/or purposes across the word. Keep the disambiguater. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:45, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Do any of them have articles or at least a realistic potential for one because If not (Ontario) doesn’t seem necessary?--76.65.41.59 (talk) 21:58, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Anthony Appleyard: I'm wondering the same thing. There is no article from which it is disambiguating. And given WP:SMALLDETAILS, I'm sure there would be a significant difference in the title with any as-yet uncreated article. 72.139.206.172 (talk) 23:11, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose this is highly generic and would be confusing to non-Canadians. In ictu oculi (talk) 06:54, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per IIO. ╠╣uw [talk] 08:25, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support regardless of the confusion argument there is no other article that currently shares this title and I am not aware of any other aricle that is handled this way. If the term is that generic it should be quite easy to find another viable entry. Also, if there is no evidence that there are any other potential entires (and so far none had been provided) there is no evidence that non Canadians would be searching this term in the first place making the confusion argument moot.--76.65.41.59 (talk) 03:13, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support. No disambiguation is needed. The fact that the title is composed of common nouns isn't really relevant; Wikipedia disambiguates only when necessary. "Confusing to non-Canadians" isn't either. Encyclopedias are filled with terms unfamiliar to readers; that's why readers use encyclopedias. Cf. Emergency Social Services, Independent Investigations Office, Alcohol and Gaming Authority, Serious Incident Response Team, Energy and Utilities Board, &c. — AjaxSmack 14:56, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support per WP:OVERPRECISION. There's no other article on WP that needs the title so no need to disambiguate. Station1 (talk) 17:20, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. We do not add disambiguators to titles just because some readers won't already recognize the term — we don't, for instance, preemptively disambiguate Margaret Atwood with "(writer)" just because there may be people in the world who haven't already heard of her and thus don't already know that she's a writer. We disambiguate titles only if there's an actual conflict with other topics of the same name. There was a reason why this was placed at the disambiguated title when it was first created, but since that was ten years ago I can't actually recall or attest to what it was — but there's no other topic of the same name with an article, so there's no valid reason for it to remain overdabbed. Bearcat (talk) 19:55, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It seems like this is basically the same thing as a Local service district (New Brunswick) or Local Service District (Newfoundland and Labrador). Dekimasuよ! 21:07, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure whatbthr point is. Local service board and local service district are different term so unless your suggesting that people typing local service board are actually looking for either of the two local service district articles and getting the name wrong I don’t see how this is relevant.--76.65.41.59 (talk) 02:43, 16 June 2018 (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.