Revision as of 02:17, 28 April 2007

Requested moves is a process for requesting the retitling (moving) of an article, template, or project page on Misplaced Pages. For information on retitling files, categories, and other items, see § When not to use this page.

Before moving a page or requesting a move, please review the article titling policy and the guidelines on primary topics.

Any autoconfirmed user can move a page using the "Move" option in the editing toolbar; see how to move a page for more information. If you have no reason to expect a dispute concerning a move, be bold and move the page. However, it may not always be possible or desirable to do this:

• Technical reasons may prevent a move; for example, a page may already exist at the target title and require deletion, or the page may be protected from moves. In such cases, see § Requesting technical moves.
• Requests to revert recent, undiscussed, controversial moves may be made at WP:RM/TR. If the new name has not become the stable title, the undiscussed move will be reverted. If the new name has become the stable title, a requested move will be needed to determine the article's proper location.
• A title may be disputed, and discussion may be necessary to reach consensus: see § Requesting controversial and potentially controversial moves. The requested moves process is not mandatory, and sometimes an informal discussion at the article's talk page can help reach consensus.
• A page should not be moved and a new move discussion should not be opened when there is already an open move request on a talk page. Instead, please participate in the open discussion.
• Unregistered and new (not yet autoconfirmed) users are unable to move pages.

Requests are typically processed after seven days. If consensus supports the move at or after this time, a reviewer will perform it. If there is a consensus not to move the page, the request will be closed as "not moved." When consensus remains unclear, the request may be relisted to allow more time, or closed as "no consensus". See Misplaced Pages:Requested moves/Closing instructions for more details on the process.

Misplaced Pages:Move review can be used to contest the outcome of a move request as long as all steps are followed. If a discussion on the closer's talk page does not resolve an issue, then a move review will evaluate the close of the move discussion to determine whether or not the contested close was reasonable and consistent with the spirit and intent of common practice, policies, and guidelines.

When not to use this page

• WP:NOTRM
• WP:RMNOT

Separate processes exist for moving certain types of pages, and for changes other than page moves:

• Making an uncontroversial move – if you can, be bold and do it yourself! If you can't, see § Requesting technical moves.
• Renaming a category – propose the move at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion.
• Renaming a stub template – propose the move at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion.
• Renaming an image or other file – see Misplaced Pages:Moving a page § Moving a file page.
• Moves from draft namespace or user space to article space – Unconfirmed users: add {{subst:submit}} to the top of the article. See Misplaced Pages:Articles for creation. Confirmed users: Move the page yourself.
• Merging two articles – make a request at Misplaced Pages:Proposed mergers, or be bold and do it yourself.
• Splitting an article – make a request at Misplaced Pages:Proposed article splits, or be bold and do it yourself.
• Requesting that page histories be merged – list them at Misplaced Pages:Requests for history merge.
• Contesting a move request close – use the Misplaced Pages:Move review process.

Undiscussed moves

• WP:RMUM
• WP:BOLDMOVE

Autoconfirmed editors may move a page without discussion if all of the following apply:

• No article exists at the new target title;
• There has been no previous discussion about the title of the page that expressed any objection to a new title; and
• It seems unlikely that anyone would reasonably disagree with the move.

If you disagree with a prior bold move, and the new title has not been in place for a long time, you may revert the move yourself. If you cannot revert the move for technical reasons, then you may request a technical move.

Move wars are disruptive, so if you make a bold move and it is reverted, do not make the move again. Instead, follow the procedures laid out in § Requesting controversial and potentially controversial moves.

Uncontroversial proposals

Only list here proposals that are clearly uncontroversial but require administrator help to complete. Things like capitalization and spelling mistakes would be appropriate here. If there is any prior discussion as to the name of the article please link to it. If there is any possibility that the proposed page move could be opposed by anyone, do not list it in this section. If the move location appears as a red link you should be able to move the article using the move button of the top of the article's page (unless your account is less than 4 days old) and don't need to use this page.

Please list new requests at the bottom and use {{subst:WP:RM2|Old page name|Requested name|Reason for move}}; do not copy, paste, and edit previous entries. No dated sections are necessary, and no templates on the article's talk page are necessary. Do not sign yourself — the template will do it for you.

If your request was not fulfilled, and was removed from this section—or if you object to a proposal listed here—please relist it in the #Incomplete and contested proposals section below.

• Giga Pets → Giga Pet - Not sure which policy states this, but shouldn't the name be singular? Tamajared 21:09, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Prime Cuts (Suicidal Tendencies album) → Prime Cuts — No need for disambig with only two articles; This one is more notable, so the other will be linked at the top —Joltman 18:12, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

• Weather Girls → The Weather Girls - To comply with article titles such as "The Beatles" and "The Rolling Stones" Salaskan 19:32, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

• Food safety in mainland China → Food safety in the People's Republic of China — Reverse an undiscussed very controversial move by a sockpuppet of a banned user. SchmuckyTheCat 22:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Incomplete and contested proposals

If a requested move is incomplete (not all steps of the procedure are followed), or if anyone could reasonably object to an "uncontroversial" proposal, it should be listed here until the proposer or anyone else completes it. After the completion, please move the entry to the top of "other proposals" section. Please place newly moved requests to the top of this list, and either sign (~~~~) or just put the timestamp (~~~~~) at the end. Proposals that remain here longer than 5 days are subject to removal.

• Video card → Graphics card —(Discuss)— More common name —Frap 14:56, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

• Incomplete. --Stemonitis 17:40, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

• Mana (game series) → Mana (series) —(Discuss)— Per Talk:Mana (game series) the article contains more than the games, it contains the comics as well. The page was moved to the current page because someone moved it before the end of the discussion, cannot move to the already redirected page and did not request for a move nor tried to copy and paste the contents, and just chose a name randomly that was not taken. —MythSearcher 07:41, 26 April 2007 (UTC) MythSearcher 07:41, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Incomplete. --Stemonitis 17:40, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually at the begining of the talk page discussion, the page was at Seiken Densetsu (series) (and the last failed move is at Seiken Densetsu). The page was moved to the current position Mana (game series) before consensus was made. However, seeing that I am the only opposing party of this discussion and I have already accepted the move due to a source was given after the move to (game series) was made, everyone who is included in the discussion should have agreed on moving the page to Mana (series). User:A Link to the Past and I simply are discussing on the matters about why I agreed on an official source instead of his speculation, and is basically not related to the move consensus. MythSearcher 18:24, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

• Saw palmetto extract → Saw palmetto — After the above move, then Saw palmetto extract should take the place of Saw palmetto. Per WP:NC (flora). —Rkitko 19:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• It looks like the article is about the extract, in which case "Saw palmetto extract" would seem to be the best title (WP:NC: "be precise"). Moved to controversial. --Stemonitis 19:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for moving saw palmetto to the genus article--I didn't notice it was monotypic. Of course it should reside there. As for saw palmetto extract, the article seems to be more about the common uses of Serenoa repens, not just about the extract. Precision is good, but the most common name for all of the uses of this should, I think, be titled under saw palmetto. Saw palmetto extract might be a good article to start as a summary style offshoot of saw palmetto if it ever reaches the point that it would need to be split off. --Rkitko 21:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• Famous Gnostics → List of Gnostics — Rename per Misplaced Pages:Lists_(stand-alone_lists)#Naming_conventions. Existing page is a redirect to a non-existent section of the article on Gnosticism. —Flex (talk|contribs) 20:56, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• While the article definitely needs renaming to a "list of..." title, I haven't come across any reason why "gnostics" must be capitalised. How is this different from a list of communists (lower-case "c") or a list of agnostics? As far as I can see (not being an expert), gnosticism was never a formal religion with an official name, so I can't see the need for a capital letter. Moved to controversial pending explanation. --Stemonitis 09:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher → Seychelles Paradise-flycatcher — Bird name orthography as per HBW standard —Dysmorodrepanis 12:06, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• The Sibley-Monroe list gives "Paradise Flycatcher" as two words. Moved from uncontroversial. --Stemonitis 07:47, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• Red-bellied Paradise-flycatcher → Black-headed Paradise-flycatcher — BirdLife/HBW standardized name —Dysmorodrepanis 12:13, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Not only does the Sibley-Monroe list gives "Paradise Flycatcher" as two words, but the primary sources use "red-bellied" rather than "black-headed". WP:TOL practice is to use scientific names where ther is no reasonably unique common name. Moved from uncontroversial. --Stemonitis 07:47, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• Los Cruzados → The Cruzados - Reasons are explained in the talk page. --evrik  14:12, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• The album cover looks like plain "Cruzados", and it might be worthwhile soliciting opinions from others. Moved from uncontroversial. --Stemonitis 14:16, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Thio- → Thio — most linking pages don't use the hyphen —Eloil 05:47, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Object. The number is about evenly split, but more importantly, the article is about a prefix. The topic doesn't seem notable outside of that context; "thio" without a hyphen is very uncommon and is just an adjective meaning "sulfurous". Since naming conventions tell us to WP:NC#Redirect adjectives to nouns, that would reduce the page to a redirect to sulfur. Dekimasuよ! 09:20, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Muse (Greek mythology) → Muse — restore primary use to base name —JHunterJ 18:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Someone else obviously disagrees about which, if any, is the primary usage. Moved from uncontroversial. --Stemonitis 18:21, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

  The other editor has since attempted to undo the move, but with a cut-n-paste swap which I undid. -- JHunterJ 21:15, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• It is still far from clear to me which, if any is the primary usage, as suggested at Talk:Muse. I recommend holding a full debate to establish consensus. There are three options — your solution (Muse (Greek mythology) => Muse; Muse (band) => Muse; or Muse (disambiguation) => Muse — and I have seen comments in favour of each. --Stemonitis 07:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Other proposals

All of the proposals listed below need to have a discussion set up on talk page of the article to be moved (see Steps 2-3 here). Please use the template {{subst:WP:RM|Old Page Name|Requested name|Reason for move}} and, if necessary, create a new dated section.

Please use the correct template: see the instructions above. Do not attempt to copy and paste formatting from another listing.

28 April 2007

• Arvandrud/Shatt al-Arab → Shatt al-Arab —(Discuss)— Thus moving the article on this Iranian and Iraqi river from a double "Persian/Arabic" title to the Arabic-language name alone, to reflect common English usage, in accordance to Misplaced Pages's naming conventions. — See some examples of usage in the article's talk page. —Ev 02:16, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

• Situationism (disambiguation) → Situationism —(Discuss)— Ther is no point in having Situationism redir toSituationism (disambiguation) when Situationism is not used for an article.) —Alan Liefting 02:06, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
• Duchy of Cieszyn → Duchy of Teschen —(Discuss)— In English publications about this historical duchy, the usage of Teschen is more commonly used than Cieszyn. The latter should still be mentioned in the intro as an alternative name, of course. —Olessi 00:42, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

27 April 2007

• Chesterfield Supper Club → The Chesterfield Supper Club —(Discuss)— correct title —Pepso 00:20, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
• Pat Ryan → Pat Ryan (curler) —(Discuss)— This is a contested move that I have already tried at 23:38, 20 April 2007 to make to make way for a dab. The move was reverted at 00:11, 21 April 2007 by User:Earl Andrew with the misleadign edit summary "Far more notable than the other Pat Ryan", which is not in fact true. A google of Pat Ryan shows Pat Ryan (executive) listed first. Pat Ryan only shows on the first page of search results for his WP article. No other pages show for him on the first page. He is a world champion of a minor sport from some time ago. The executive is in the news these days as the Chairman of the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid committee and is the founder of a Fortune 500 company. This move should not have been contested. Debates have been going on & with no satisfactory resolution. —TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 17:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC) TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 17:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
• Gyrodynes and Heliplanes → Gyrodyne —(Discuss)— Per the naming convention criteria for simplicity, being precise and preference for the singular. Heliplane was a marketing name for an autogyro built by Air & Space Manufacturing, and is now used solely in reference to a gyrodyne research program by DARPA. —Born2flie 16:37, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

• English Defense → English Defence —(Discuss)— WP:ENGVAR: With "English" in the title, using the American spelling "Defense" seems incongruous. First reference on talk page also uses "English Defence". I would perform this move myself, but the redirect at English Defence was edited to fix a typo :( Quale 15:22, 27 April 2007 (UTC) —Quale 15:22, 27 April 2007 (UTC)}}

• Heroes (TV series) → Heroes —(Discuss)— The TV show is by far the most common internet search result and is quite popular —Barryob Vigeur de dessus 14:22, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

• EF-111 Raven → EF-111A Raven —(Discuss)— In order to "be precise", there is only one variant of this aircraft. --Born2flie 13:57, 27 April 2007 (UTC) —Born2flie 13:57, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

26 April 2007

• Íker Casillas → Iker Casillas —(Discuss)— The forename Iker is of Basque origin and in Basque language no accents are used. —Kooma 19:30, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• Lebanese Jews → History of the Jews in Lebanon —(Discuss)— The article is a history like almost all other pages of its kind about Jews around the world. Should follow the same template. —NYC2TLV 18:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• Jerzy Kosiński → Jerzy Kosinski —(Discuss)— The subject is a writer born in Poland who achieved notability after immigrating to the USA; he wrote his novels in English. In the English-speaking world he is invariably known as "Jerzy Kosinski", including in the book reviews and other materials cited in the Misplaced Pages article. Per Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions the article title should be "Jerzy Kosinski" without diacriticals. Because that page has some edit history I cannot perform the move myself. —Mathew5000 15:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• CIA leak scandal (2003) → Plame affair —(Discuss)— The article was originall moved without discussion to CIA leak scandal. The page was then reverted back to Plame affair and then moved without consensus from Plame affair to CIA leak scandal and then to CIA leak scandal (2003) during an ongoing discussion. The move from CIA leak scandal to CIA leak scandal (2003) required the fixing of a double redirect which prevented a move back to Plame affair until discussion could be completed. Subsequent discussion on the article talk page indicates that Plame affair is the more popular choice for the article name. However, google searches seem to indicate that "CIA leak case" is the more commonly used named. All in all, a consensus name choice is needed. —Bobblehead 02:56, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Relisting to allow more time for consensus to form. --Stemonitis 14:11, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• I-mate SP5m → HTC Tornado —(Discuss)— There is an established pattern of naming the various HTC smartphones after the original HTC model name and allowing that article to discuss all of the rebranded variants, rather than having a separate page for each. The HTC Tornado is rebranded as at least 8 different models: Dopod 577W, Qtek 8300 & 8310, O2 Xda IQ, i-mate SP5 & SP5m, T-Mobile SDA (US), Vodafone V1240 —Bovineone 04:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

25 April 2007

• Jeremy Usbourne → Jeremy (Peep Show character) —(Discuss)— There has been an ongoing edit war over whether his surname is Usbourne or Osbourne, no reliable source has yet been found to confirm either way (the official Channel 4 website uses both variants!) so based on WP:V it must he moved to a location that doesn't use either —ChrisTheDude 20:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Transmutation → Nuclear transmutation —(Discuss)— The existing article at Nuclear transmutation simply redirects to Transmutation; we need to move the latter to make room for a disambiguation page at Transmutation. There are many articles that need to be disambiguated, including Transmutate, Transmutation circle, Biological transmutation, Dimensional transmutation, etc etc etc. I will be more than happy to do the disambig myself once the page is moved. —PaladinWhite 13:14, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Wild Dances (single) → Wild Dances (song) —(Discuss)— Naming convention. It should not be "single" but song. —Luigi-ish 12:47, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Delio "Maravilla" Gamboa → Delio Gamboa —(Discuss)— real name of this footballer —-- lucasbfr 08:36, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Migrash Harusim → Russian Compound —(Discuss)— A widely used English-name exists, so we should use it. —Tewfik 03:00, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• John Mayer (musician) → John Mayer —(Discuss)— The musician is clearly the most notable of the three. —MZMcBride 02:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Philippine piso → Philippine peso —(Discuss)— When writing in English, virtually all sources including the Philippine government and central bank, use the spelling "peso". The correct expression in Tagalog is "Piso ng Pilipinas". It was recently moved to "piso" without discussion, and the move back is contested. -Will Beback · † · 01:47, 25 April 2007 (UTC) —Will Beback · † · 01:47, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

April 24, 2007

• Makiwara → Hojo undo —(Discuss)— Move requested to broaden scope of article to include all martial arts conditioning tools —Scott Alter 23:22, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• 2006 Lebanon War → 2006 Lebanon war —(Discuss)— The lowercase form is more accurate, as it denotes "the war that took place in Lebanon in 2006" more accurately. The capitalized "War" denotes "the 'Lebanon War' which took place in 2006", which wasn't the intention of the move to this name. —— George Saliba 22:50, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Short message service → SMS —(Discuss)— per Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (abbreviations), no one says, "I'm gonna send you a short message service." If there's no consensus for this, at the very least it should be moved to Short Message Service. —Yonatan 16:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• About Last Night (film) → About Last Night... —(Discuss)— The film's correct title is with the ellipsis. —Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 14:38, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Hero of Alexandria → Heron of Alexandria —(Discuss)— More commonly used name —The way, the truth, and the light 12:47, 24 April 2007 (UTC) - I think this should be an exception to the normal rules for ancient Greek names, because Heron is the clearly preferred from in English (see Heron's formula.). The way, the truth, and the light 12:47, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• History of Augsburg → Bishopric of Augsburg —(Discuss)— Merged articles —OwenBlacker 12:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Frankfurt International Airport → Frankfurt Airport —(Discuss)— The name as used by the airport authority, Lufthansa, and others is just "Frankfurt Airport". The latter shows up 9x as much in Google, and from my experience, is the more common name used (I haven't heard anyone say "Frankfurt International") —DB (talk) 06:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming → Scientists who have expressed skepticism on the theory of man made global warming —(Discuss)— This article assumes that the opinion of one particular organization is the mainstream view and the mainstream view is constant it is not peoples views are subject to change, thus inviting point of view disputes as public opinion changes to or from any position on global warming. The title is also more well defined as the list depends on views they have expressed which can be taken from reliable resources as opposed to current views of an individual which are subject to change and may be debatable based on recent statements. Use of the present tense int the current title also excludes none living people from this list. As the article is written it could also include people who beleive mans impact on global warming is more sever then statedIrate velociraptor 05:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Grant Hill (basketball player) → Grant Hill (basketball) —(Discuss)— All other basketball players/coaches with ambiguous names have just (basketball) to differentiate them from other similarly named articles. Be it coach, general manager, or ballboy - there is no other basketball-related Grant Hill. Besides, up until a few weeks ago it was already named Grant Hill (basketball), before someone moved it. --Downwards 04:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

April 23 2007

• Taipan (computer game) → Taipan! —(Discuss)— The game's title includes the exclamation mark; thus, the new name is more correct. A redirect to the current article already exists at Taipan!; it can simply be replaced with the existing article. —PaladinWhite 16:38, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

• Union Flag → Union Jack —(Discuss)— The Oxford English Dictionary does not acknowledge the term Union Flag in its full version. Nor does Encyclopaedia Britannica. The BBC uses the term Union Jack exclusively too following a mass of complaints from the public. Misplaced Pages is the first entry in Google when searching for Union Jack, and should follow the trends set by acclaimed reference sources. Only a handful of people pushed for the change, as can be seen in the 'discuss' tab on "Union Jack Flag" —217.158.65.178 14:29, 20 April 2007 (UTC) (Request listed here at 12:22, 23 April 2007 (UTC).)

• Krusty → Krusty the Clown —(Discuss)— The character from The Simpsons should be listed by his "full name," rather than just his first name. Krusty the Clown is a more appropriate title for an article than just "Krusty." Every other character on the show is listed by their full name (ex: Lenny Leonard, not Lenny (The Simpsons) ). —Crashintome4196 01:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

• Confrontation at Montgomery's Tavern → Battle of Montgomery's Tavern —(Discuss)— more commonly recognized title —McMuff 00:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

April 22 2007

• Fairfield (Essex County), New Jersey → Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey —(Discuss)— Page was moved to a name that violates standards for naming of New Jersey municipalities. —Alansohn 18:24, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Pili pili → Piri piri—(Discuss)— Google seems to prefer the latter by a wide margin, as does the originating spelling, as does the article itself!--Lionelbrits 16:14, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Salvatore Belleci → Tory Belleci —(Discuss)— Its his far more common nickname. wikipedia naming policy — _CAT 23:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC) _CAT 23:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

• Created discussion space on the behalf of the editor who proposed the move. Dekimasuよ! 06:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Will o' the wisp → Will-o'-the-wisp —(Discuss)— Will o' the wisp is a misspelling. It is similar to jack-o'-lantern and if one looked it up in any encyclopedia I'm sure it would be spelled Will-o'-the-wisp. See also . —Tim Q. Wells 04:02, 22 April 2007 (UTC) Tim Q. Wells 04:02, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

April 21 2007

• Ryūkyū proper → Ryūkyū Shotō —(Discuss)— This page is documenting a Japanese division of the Ryukyu Islands (English name, which the Japanese call the Nansei Islands). The English name currently on the article is a neologism. The proposed name is the Japanese name for this group of islands. —Neier 07:03, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

• Aloha shirt → Hawaiian shirt —(Discuss)— The term "Hawaiian shirt" is more commonly used, as demonstrated by simple Google searches, and the term is much more widespread than "Aloha shirt", which according to the article itself is primarily a term used in Hawaii itself. —Branddobbe 04:10, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

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