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The result of the move request was: not moved. WP:SNOW. Per consensus and WP:NCFA. ( closed by non-admin page mover) echidnaLives - talk - edits 11:00, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
Australia men's national soccer team →
Australia men's national football team – Per
WP:OFFICIAL. Although the term soccer is used a lot more commonly in Australia, I do think the name of this page should be changed to the official name of the team - the Australia men's national football team. Sources:
www
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) — Mdaniels5757 ( talk • contribs) 21:09, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
Australia men's national soccer team → Socceroos – Per WP:COMMONNAME; the current title, and various variations on it, have no recent results in Google News, while Socceroos has many. BilledMammal ( talk) 23:11, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Australian National Men's Football Team. Since Socceroos is the official nickname it is more official than the current title.
Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it generally prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable English-language sources) as such names will usually best fit the five criteria listed above.BilledMammal ( talk) 11:58, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
Would a random reader from Canada or Brazil or France recognise it?Look at the Google Trend results I provided above; "Socceroos" is the preferred search term in both Brazil and France, and while in Canada "Australia national football team" is more common, it is only slightly so. In addition, media both in Australia and outside prefer "Socceroos"; this can be seen by how few results there are when searching for a name other than "Socceroos", and can also be seen when looking at specific news agencies - for example, France24 has hundreds of results using "Socceroos", compared to no results using the current title. BilledMammal ( talk) 07:16, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was: not moved. WP:SNOW. Per consensus and WP:NCFA. ( closed by non-admin page mover) echidnaLives - talk - edits 11:00, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
Australia men's national soccer team →
Australia men's national football team – Per
WP:OFFICIAL. Although the term soccer is used a lot more commonly in Australia, I do think the name of this page should be changed to the official name of the team - the Australia men's national football team. Sources:
www
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) — Mdaniels5757 ( talk • contribs) 21:09, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
Australia men's national soccer team → Socceroos – Per WP:COMMONNAME; the current title, and various variations on it, have no recent results in Google News, while Socceroos has many. BilledMammal ( talk) 23:11, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Australian National Men's Football Team. Since Socceroos is the official nickname it is more official than the current title.
Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it generally prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable English-language sources) as such names will usually best fit the five criteria listed above.BilledMammal ( talk) 11:58, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
Would a random reader from Canada or Brazil or France recognise it?Look at the Google Trend results I provided above; "Socceroos" is the preferred search term in both Brazil and France, and while in Canada "Australia national football team" is more common, it is only slightly so. In addition, media both in Australia and outside prefer "Socceroos"; this can be seen by how few results there are when searching for a name other than "Socceroos", and can also be seen when looking at specific news agencies - for example, France24 has hundreds of results using "Socceroos", compared to no results using the current title. BilledMammal ( talk) 07:16, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
The redirect
Australia national soccer team has been listed at
redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the
redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 July 11 § Australia national soccer team until a consensus is reached. —
TechnoSquirrel69 (
sigh)
05:03, 11 July 2024 (UTC)