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On 22 June 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to Victoria Park (stadium). The result of the discussion was not moved.

West Hartlepool Rugby

I feel that they should be mentioned as Hartlepool bought the ground from them and in a reversal of fortunes rented it back to them. I may do this at a later date. Anyway, I've given the article a general cleanup to make it more readable. Englishrose 21:12, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Added history, mentioned West Hartlepool Rugby Football Club. Englishrose 17:00, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 22 June 2023

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: not moved. There is clear consensus against the move as proposed. There appears to be some support for Victoria Park, Hartlepool, but no support for the proposed new title. (closed by non-admin page mover) EggRoll97 ^(talk) 23:45, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Victoria Park (Hartlepool) → Victoria Park (stadium) – Based on the RM at The Valley (London). 90.254.6.237 (talk) 20:05, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose According to the Victoria Park disambiguation page, there are three other football stadiums with the same name; Victoria Park, Burscough, Victoria Park (Kingstown), Victoria Park, Melbourne. There are also three football grounds of the same name; Victoria Park (Bournemouth), Victoria Park, Buckie, Victoria Park, Dingwall. Sideswipe9th (talk) 23:44, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. Giant Snowman 11:10, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Sideswipe9th. Giant Snowman 11:13, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Sideswipe9th, Victoria Park (stadium) is an incomplete disambiguation. I would support moving to Victoria Park, Hartlepool, as it's located in Hartlepool, and most British articles use , rather than (). Joseph2302 (talk) 11:16, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose on the aforementioned grounds (that it would be unreasonably more ambiguous). Tim (Talk) 08:05, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per other stadiums but would support Victoria Park, Hartlepool and I would have just closed this myself if it wasn't for that suggestion. Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:28, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Victoria Park, Hartlepool, as standard for UK articles, despite the opinions of a handful of sport project editors. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:30, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose comma disambiguation per the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Archive_77#Inconsistency_in_stadium_article_titles, which found consensus for a consistent approach to naming stadia, which is also compliant with WP:AT policy. If that discussion is to be overridden, at the very least you need to ping in the participants thereof. Note that the "standard for UK articles" is not written down anywhere, not universally observed, and has no basis in WP:ENGVAR. It would be preferable to move all UK and Commonwealth articles to be in line with the project-wide standard and article titling policy. — Amakuru (talk) 14:07, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- There is no "project-wide standard and article titling policy"! The only places for which parenthetical disambiguation is universally used are the USA and Canada. Comma disambiguation is generally used for other Commonwealth countries. Elsewhere it is mixed. It is certainly not natural to use parenthetical disambiguation in the real world. What do you use in an address? Commas or parentheses? -- Necrothesp (talk) 08:13, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Pinging all participants from the previous discussion mentioned, which established the parentheses convention for stadia, to see if consensus has changed: @ChrisTheDude, GiantSnowman, Dweller, Number 57, and Thumperward: — Amakuru (talk) 14:56, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- From the ten-year-old WT:FOOTY discussion linked above, it's clear that there has never been a consensus, or at least if there was then it has never been consistently applied. Check out, for example, the total mess that is Recreation ground (disambiguation)...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:09, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  - Precisely. It's being claimed as a consensus when it clearly isn't. -- Necrothesp (talk) 08:13, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Incredibly obviously a bad idea. Necrothesp (talk · contribs) should be invited to explain why he thinks Wikipedia revolves around England. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 21:03, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- It doesn't. But this stadium is in England! Were you not aware of this? -- Necrothesp (talk) 08:13, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  - I am sure Chris is aware of that, but I would imagine what he meant was why should this stadium be renamed with the simple disambiguator "(stadium)", which seems to carry the implication that it's the primary stadium of that name? If anything, it could be argued that Victoria Park, Dingwall has a greater claim, given that it hosts top-division football, whereas the one in Hartlepool is the home of a club in only the fifth tier of English football...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:25, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.