Talk:Rugby Southland

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Requested move 5 August 2017

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The result of the move request was: Moved to Rugby Southland. No such user (talk) 11:41, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Southland Rugby Football Union → Rugby Southland – Official name change. Requesting for an unregistered user. Pariah24 (talk) 05:03, 5 August 2017 (UTC) --Relisting. Andrewa (talk) 16:28, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- Looks like the official name now, but can't find anything confirming the change of name. Having a source of some kind would speed things up. -- Shudde ^talk 17:16, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~The article is poorly referenced and makes no mention of the name change. As a minimum the article should include sentance or two about the change of name together with referencing from a reliable source. User:Shudde is correct - a source will help the process. NealeFamily (talk) 10:01, 7 August 2017 (UTC) Changed to Support as per User:Mattlore NealeFamily (talk) 01:50, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting comment: I'm also having a difficult time finding sources... was there even a name change? When? http://www.rugbysouthland.co.nz/history.html and https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/regional-rugby/southland don't mention one (and nor does our article as noted above). And in any case, what's the common name currently? The official name is not the whole story, not by a long shot. Google [1] [2] gives me more ghits for Rugby Southland but not overwhelmingly. If we had a date for the (unsubstantiated) official rename we could invoke WP:NAMECHANGES and hopefully get a clearer picture. Andrewa (talk) 16:42, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
According to the Incorporated Societies register, they changed their name from Soutland Rugby Football Union Inc to Rugby Southland Inc on 10 March 1998! Sorry I can't link to the certificate, only the search function. Mattlore (talk) 20:46, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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