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October 11, 2009

October 10, 2009

  • Churchill (disambiguation) → Churchill — (Discuss) — The name "Churchill" has a large number of possible uses, as placename, surname of a distinguished family, common surname, name of a Cambridge college, and so on. Examination of the inward links (now corrected) to the existing Churchill page showed many to be references to Sir Winston, but a significant minority to be to places called Churchill, or other uses, such as the tank or the insurance company. It seems more generally useful to have no primary topic here, and to format the disambiguation page in a way which keeps the famous family in chronological order. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 14:23, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

October 09, 2009

  • History of India → History of the Indian subcontinent — (Discuss) — Since this page deals with the history of the entire Indian subcontinent prior to 1947, I suggest that it be moved to a title that more accurately reflects its content. The page includes the histories of present-day Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, prior to their creation, so my proposal is to move History of India to History of the Indian subcontinent and then move History of the Republic of India to History of India. This, in my submission, would reflect more accurately the geographical extent of the territories whose history is sought to be covered as the identities of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan as understood in the present day are post-1947 constructs which share a common history prior to that year. Regards, SBC-YPR (talk) 15:31, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

October 08, 2009

  • K.D. Lang → k.d. lang — (Discuss) — As WP:MOSCAPS says, "Some individuals do not want their personal names capitalized. In such cases, Wikipedia articles may use lower case variants of personal names if they have regular and established use in reliable third-party sources." (emphasis mine) The all-lowercase spelling of "k.d. lang" is verified through multiple third-party sources in the article, indicating that the all-lowercase spelling is the most common use. Therefore, the article should be moved to match. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 18:32, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk → Handover of Brest-Litovsk from Germany to the USSR (1939) — (Discuss) — I suggest to move the page to the new title because this event was more important (as the parade was only a part of the handover ceremony), besides the parade's prominence in modern Polish political discourse, and because the new title has greather scope. For example, it would allow to add a story by Krivoshein that he prevented passing of German trains with looted Polish property by ordering the tanks to stay on the rail tracks and pretend they were repairing the engine. This one as well as other events accompanying the handover besides the parade itself could be added to the aricle after move.Please note that the voting may be hijacked by participants of the coordinated POV-pushing group (called Easter European mailing list cabal), currently under ArbCom investigation (see [6] for more details), which has a long history of well-documented vote mobbing. Note that at least two of the cabal participants (Piotrus and radek (talk)) recently participated in coordinated reverts in this aticle.--Dojarca (talk) 08:52, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Brij Bhasha → Braj Bhasha — (Discuss) — Sirs, the standard spelling for this in Britanica and all my scholarly tomes from Oxford, Cambrige, ect. spell tis as Braj and then add other spellings owing to the sound some heare when the a is said. Eben Monier Williams uses Braj as do Indian Scholars. This dictionary is bein copied by many other sites, yet in the second paragraph ans throughout the article - BRIG is never used again. Please change this. My attempt failed Atmamatma (talk) 08:26, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

October 07, 2009

  • Radiator → Radiative heater — (Discuss) — Radiator isn't a good article name, as anything which gives off radiation is a radiator. A simple stove for example also radiates heat. Also, a radiator doesn't specifically refer a device which emits thermal radiation; electrical, nuclear, ... radiation also counts; thus eg radio's, ... are also radiators. 91.182.170.41 (talk) 13:02, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

October 06, 2009

October 05, 2009

  • Mausoleum of Mausolus → Mausoleum of Halicarnassus — (Discuss) — Hy there, I'm hereby requesting that we move this article towards Mausoleum of Halicarnassus asap. The proposed name (which is currently a re-direct) is the common and simply famous name of this ancient wonder of the world (in English). To be very honest I doubt that most of us have ever heard of a 'Mausoleum of Mausolus' at all. Flamarande (talk) 17:15, 5 October 2009 (UTC) Furthermore, the administrator could and should protect the article against any future move.[reply]

October 04, 2009

Backlog

  • Pandy (disambiguation) → Pandy — (Discuss) — Pandy has been tagged for merger to Fulling mill for nearly a year without any comment being made, except one that pointing the article being a jumping off point to palce names, which this article will do rather better than it ever could. I have done that now, which merely consisted of making the article a redirect, as there was virtually no useful content to. This frees up Pandy to be used for this. Since this involves overwriting an existing page, I am unable to do this as I am not an admin. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:36, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Đakovica → Gjakovë — (Discuss) — I will cite WP:MOSKOS*On the principle that self-identifying entities are named primarily according to the term that they use for themselves, and since anglicised equivalents do not exist for Kosovo placenames, local official placenames are to be used. In practice this means using Albanian names for Albanian-governed localities and Serbian names for Serbian-governed localities. In each case, articles must start with the predominant local placename followed by the equivalent name in the other language.*95% of Gjakovë's population is Albanian, and Pal Lekaj its mayor is Albanian. The guidelines are very clear and therefore the title of the article should be in Albanian as the majority of the population is Albanian, and it is an Albanian-governed locality. Kreshnik25 (talk) 12:46, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Cassandra Cain → Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) — (Discuss) — This seems to be clear naming conventions issue. I don't believe there is a context for the character outside of Batgirl. Dick and Stephanie have appeared prominently as Robin/Nightwing/Batman and Spoiler/Robin/Batgirl. The other names of Cassandra (seems to been the introduction, with the character assuming the Batgirl mantle in the following month) and Kasumi (evidently a plot twist in the JL: Elite storyline, reflecting in not renaming the Green Arrow article). There may be reason the change the name in the future, with fallout from Stephanie Brown as Batgirl, but currently, Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) is the most common name. -Sharp962 (talk) 14:48, 20 September 2009 (UTC).[reply]
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