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Scotland Start‑class Low‑importance

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Requested move 20 January 2016

The request to rename this article to St Cuthbert Wanderers F.C. has been carried out. If the page title has consensus, be sure to close this discussion using {{subst:RM top|'''page moved'''.}} and {{subst:RM bottom}} and remove the {{Requested move/dated|…}} tag, or replace it with the {{subst:Requested move/end|…}} tag.

St. Cuthbert Wanderers F.C. → St Cuthbert Wanderers F.C. – to remove the dot from "St." per wikipedia naming convention and per the club's own website http://www.stcuthbertwanderers.co.uk/. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:17, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

• Note If this article is moved, then the two related categories (Category:St. Cuthbert Wanderers F.C. and Category:St. Cuthbert Wanderers F.C. players) should be speedily renamed per WP:C2D. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:21, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

• Comment I'm confused, there appears to be no difference between the current & proposed article names... what am I missing? _└/_talk 08:10, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
• Comment - Me too! Fenix down (talk) 13:36, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
• I presume that BrownHairedGirl wants to remove the full-stop (period), and have updated the request accordingly. Either that, or spell out the word "Saint"? Wbm1058 (talk) 17:52, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Yes, that was it. Sorry for my clumsiness, and thanks to Wbm1058 for the fix. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:55, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

• Comment leaning to don't move Club's official name is Saint Cuthbert Wanderers F.C. Its also not clear what naming convention is being referred to.Blethering Scot 16:39, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

• Reply. @Blethering Scot: As explained at WP:OFFICIAL, the policy at WP:COMMONNAME is that Misplaced Pages does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it generally prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources.
  Those sources overwhelmingly abbreviate the word "Saint", as does the club itself: http://www.stcuthbertwanderers.co.uk/.
  Google News gives " 10 hits for "Saint Cuthbert Wanderers", but 101 hits for "St Cuthbert Wanderers". Google searches don't distinguish between "St Cuthbert" and "St. Cuthbert", but I looked for "St. C" on every page of search results, and only one item on one page used the "St. Cuthbert" form (with the dot): a Daily Telegraph report. All the Scottish papers and the BBC use "St Cuthbert".
  The convention does not seem to documented, but it is longstanding practice on.wp not to use the dot in "St.", as reflected for example in the names of the other Scottish football clubs. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:05, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Opposed to move So your original post was certainly misleading then. Common name really doesnt apply to a . in my opinion. Your original post read like we had a naming convention stating Saint should be abbreviated to St rather than St. In this case I am definitely opposed. As for other Scottish clubs St. Johnstone F.C. St. Mirren F.C. are the only SPFL clubs with Saint in their name and both use the . Please tell me the precedent of Scottish clubs that done use St., as I'm failing to see it.Blethering Scot 19:42, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

@Blethering Scot: I did not set out to mislead. It is an undocumented convention, demonstrable in usage. I used the word "convention" rather than "policy" or "guideline". I did not claim that it was a convention of some set of football clubs; it is a wider convention across all topics, including towns such as St Andrews and lots of Scottish schools.

This move is founded in WP:COMMONNAME, and I have provided evidence from reliable sources. I have also demonstrated that the "St" without a dot is the preferred usage on the club's own websites. OTOH, you offer only assertion.

You claim that St. Johnstone F.C. St. Mirren F.C. are the only SPFL clubs with Saint in their name and both use the ., but offer no evidence from anywhere other than Misplaced Pages that this is the case.

So your oppose is unfounded in policy or in evidence. It is just WP:IDONTLIKEIT. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:58, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

• Support per WP:COMMONNAME.— Film Fan 20:07, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

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