Talk:Boston Braves (disambiguation)

Requested move 19 July 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: pages moved as requested, per the discussion below; the method of determining a primary topic is part of the article titling policy and does not indicate that one sport is preferred over another. Dekimasuよ! 01:34, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

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• Boston Braves → Boston Braves (disambiguation)
• Boston Braves (baseball) → Boston Braves

– Clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the name. The other three entries include a minor league hockey team that lasted three years and a rugby league team (an exceedingly minor sport in the US) that doesn't even have its own article (the latter essentially is not notable at all). The only one that is remotely as notable is the football team. Which used the name for one year before changing their name. The Washington Commanders are undoubtedly notable, but they are not nearly well known by this name. And not anywhere the primary topic for this name, which is easily most associated with the baseball team. A quick Google search clearly shows as well that the baseball team is the expected result far beyond any of the other entries, which is exactly what PRIMARYTOPIC calls for.

(As an aside, the page needs cleanup. Two of the links are redirects, which doesn't meet the diwambiguation page guidelines.) oknazevad (talk) 01:13, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

• Comment. I'm neutral on the RM itself, but I have to say that I disagree with the OP's assertion that the page needs cleanup regarding linking directly to the two redirects. This is permitted under the fourth bullet point of MOS:DABREDIR, where a redirect can be used "to link to a specific section of an article if only that section discusses the disambiguated topic". And that page guideline gives an example of linking to the Eon (geology) redirect instead of directly to the Geologic time scale#Divisions of geologic time section. Zzyzx11 (talk) 02:04, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
  • Ok. But that was just an aside. And the rugby league club redirect target wasn't particularly a good target. I've retargetted it to the league, which a much more specific target. oknazevad (talk) 02:11, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
• Support - Per nom, as it's the clear primary topic. BilCat (talk) 03:16, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
• Support moves. Clear primary topic. O.N.R. ^(talk) 04:30, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose - Would be best to keep the MLB & NFL clubs on even basis. GoodDay (talk) 13:43, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

  That's not part of how we determine a primary topic, especially when the NFL.team only used the name for a short time (one year, IIRC). BilCat (talk) 17:51, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

I've no intentions of changing my position. GoodDay (talk) 17:59, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

It won't matter anyway. BilCat (talk) 18:18, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

So we should move New York Giants to New York Giants (football)? BilCat (talk) 18:21, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

This RM is about the Boston Braves. Is there an RM open on the New York Giants? If so have two team articles "New York Giants (baseball)" & "New York Giants (football)", with "New York Giants" as disambiguation page. GoodDay (talk) 02:12, 20 July 2022 (UTC) GoodDay (talk) 02:09, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

• Support as per nom. 162 etc. (talk) 16:23, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
• Support per nom, primary, and long-term significance. Randy Kryn (talk) 00:03, 20 July 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.