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User:SportingFlyer recommends a name change for the article. I think WP:COMMONNAME is the operable standard here, which is clearly “MetroCOG.” This is supported by one of the citations in the article and by three secondary sources I found. If the page survives AfD, there should be a move discussion. Oldsanfelipe ( talk) 09:14, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Closed. Active discussion is at Talk:Metropolitan_Connecticut#Requested_move_26_October_2018, contribute there. — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here) 08:39, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
Metropolitan Connecticut →
MetroCOG – Metropolitan Connecticut is a misleading name, and Metro COG is the best name for the article per
WP:COMMONNAME and
WP:NAMINGCRITERIA. This policy serves readers who often access Wikipedia pages via search engines.
User:SportingFlyer originally suggested a renaming. This fits well with my brief research on Metropolitan Connecticut. Searches based on “Metropolitan Connecticut” did not lead to meaningful results. In fact, this was the basis of JJBers claim that the subject was not notable. However, I started finding meaningful results when I used “MetroCOG” as a search key.
The COMMONNAME policy recognizes that subjects often have multiple names, and establishes a standard for choosing among those, “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.” (The five criteria are recognizability, naturalness, precision, conciseness, and consistency.) The original source of the article, the Metropolitan Connecticut web site, [1] [2] does not use “Metropolitan Connecticut” anywhere on the page. It uses “MetroCOG” and “Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Governments.” As “Metropolitan Connecticut” is not used in any of the sources cited, this name is clearly wrong, leaving just two names under reasonable consideration. All of the other sources use both of these names, but using “Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Governments” once in each article while using “MetroCOG” for all other mentions; therefore, both of these qualify under COMMONNAME. However, WP:NAMINGCRITERIA tips the scale in favor of “MetroCOG,” which satisfies naturalness, “one that readers are likely to look or search,” and conciseness. “MetroCOG” satisfies the other three criteria at least as well as “Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Goverments.”
To summarize, the current title is untenable according to COMMONNAME. “MetroCOG” and “Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Governments” both satisfy COMMONNAME, but “MetroCOG” is better based on NAMINGCRITERIA. Oldsanfelipe ( talk) 12:28, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
Request for comments @ Markvs88, Randomeditor1000, Power~enwiki, SportingFlyer, JJBers Public, AirportExpert, Magnolia677, and Szzuk: Please copy and paste old comments into this move discussion section or write new comments if you have an opinion. Thank you, Oldsanfelipe ( talk) 12:36, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Metropolitan Connecticut which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 15:19, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
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User:SportingFlyer recommends a name change for the article. I think WP:COMMONNAME is the operable standard here, which is clearly “MetroCOG.” This is supported by one of the citations in the article and by three secondary sources I found. If the page survives AfD, there should be a move discussion. Oldsanfelipe ( talk) 09:14, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Closed. Active discussion is at Talk:Metropolitan_Connecticut#Requested_move_26_October_2018, contribute there. — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here) 08:39, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
Metropolitan Connecticut →
MetroCOG – Metropolitan Connecticut is a misleading name, and Metro COG is the best name for the article per
WP:COMMONNAME and
WP:NAMINGCRITERIA. This policy serves readers who often access Wikipedia pages via search engines.
User:SportingFlyer originally suggested a renaming. This fits well with my brief research on Metropolitan Connecticut. Searches based on “Metropolitan Connecticut” did not lead to meaningful results. In fact, this was the basis of JJBers claim that the subject was not notable. However, I started finding meaningful results when I used “MetroCOG” as a search key.
The COMMONNAME policy recognizes that subjects often have multiple names, and establishes a standard for choosing among those, “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.” (The five criteria are recognizability, naturalness, precision, conciseness, and consistency.) The original source of the article, the Metropolitan Connecticut web site, [1] [2] does not use “Metropolitan Connecticut” anywhere on the page. It uses “MetroCOG” and “Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Governments.” As “Metropolitan Connecticut” is not used in any of the sources cited, this name is clearly wrong, leaving just two names under reasonable consideration. All of the other sources use both of these names, but using “Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Governments” once in each article while using “MetroCOG” for all other mentions; therefore, both of these qualify under COMMONNAME. However, WP:NAMINGCRITERIA tips the scale in favor of “MetroCOG,” which satisfies naturalness, “one that readers are likely to look or search,” and conciseness. “MetroCOG” satisfies the other three criteria at least as well as “Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Goverments.”
To summarize, the current title is untenable according to COMMONNAME. “MetroCOG” and “Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Governments” both satisfy COMMONNAME, but “MetroCOG” is better based on NAMINGCRITERIA. Oldsanfelipe ( talk) 12:28, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
Request for comments @ Markvs88, Randomeditor1000, Power~enwiki, SportingFlyer, JJBers Public, AirportExpert, Magnolia677, and Szzuk: Please copy and paste old comments into this move discussion section or write new comments if you have an opinion. Thank you, Oldsanfelipe ( talk) 12:36, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Metropolitan Connecticut which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 15:19, 26 October 2018 (UTC)