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Comment I'm confused, there appears to be no difference between the current & proposed article names... what am I missing? └/talk08:10, 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.BletheringScot16:39, 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.BletheringScot19:42, 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.
@BrownHairedGirl: First of all your opening statement mentioned nothing about commonname, so yes it was very misleading. You've also maid very incorrect statements such as as reflected for example in the names of the other Scottish football clubs. Have a look at SPFL website. Only two clubs are names Saint. St. Johnstone F.C. in the Premiership and St. Mirren F.C. in the championship. Outside the SPFL in Junior football there is another four, St Anthony's F.C., St Roch's F.C, St. Andrews United F.C. & St. Cuthbert Wanderers F.C. So out of six only 2 is named without the St. So please BrownHairedGirl show me where as reflected for example in the names of the other Scottish football clubs is proven. As you've said to me show me your evidence to back up your lies. As for I dont like it thats just you trying to hide the fact you are being evasive. If you can prove common name applies to a ., then please go ahead. However dont make false statements. The . is good English.BletheringScot20:54, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
