Talk:Bani, Gambia

RfC: The Gambia or the Gambia

There is currently a request for comments at Talk:The Gambia on whether to capitalize the definite article in the country name. Feel free to participate in the discussion. Jafeluv (talk) 05:38, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

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Requested move 27 December 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Per consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 14:15, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

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• Bani, Gambia → Bani, The Gambia
• Barra, Gambia → Barra, The Gambia
• Bulok, Gambia → Bulok, The Gambia
• Soma, Gambia → Soma, The Gambia

– Should all populated place names in The Gambia use the definite article in the country name? Currently, only Dobo, The Gambia uses it. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:40, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

• Comment Support: It might be best to let this discussion resolve first. If the result is 'not moved', then these should be moved, I think. YorkshireExpat (talk) 11:39, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

(edit) as the above discussion has resolved 'not moved' these should all be moved. YorkshireExpat (talk) 10:47, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. "Bani, Gambia" returns over 4x the Google search results as "Bani, The Gambia". We don't do this for places in The Bahamas, like Nassau, Bahamas for the same reason, so I see no need to do it here. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:25, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

  The reason to do it would to be consistent with the title of the country article. YorkshireExpat (talk) 19:29, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose: Per Rreagan007, the current titles appear to be more WP:COMMONNAMEs of these topics and are consistent with articles about places in The Bahamas, and the proposed titles seem awkward. See also Category:The Rolling Stones albums and Category:The Rolling Stones songs, in which "The" is not included for the disambiguation terms for works by The Rolling Stones. Inclusion of "The" in the main article about some topic does not imply inclusion of "The" in all mentions of that topic, and it is rather common for sources to omit "The" when referencing this country. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 16:35, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.