Talk:Namibia National Students Organisation

Requested move 29 April 2016

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move this page. The common name is "organisation". There are facebook pages with both spellings. Anarchyte (work | talk) 10:16, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

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Namibia National Students Organisation → Namibia National Students Organization – With both spelling variants, "organisation" as well as "organization", being prevalent in Namibian society, this particular organization itself uses the "z" spelling. WP:RETAIN isn't applicable here, as the spelling of the organization's actual name isn't at the discretion of this article's editors, so a matter of empirical evidence rather than convention. PanchoS (talk) 10:59, 29 April 2016 (UTC) --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 06:15, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

• Tentative support: This may be an obvious case where the WP:OFFICIALNAME is what should be used, absent any evidence that the common name is overwhelmingly against the origani[z|s]ation's own actual name. If there's corroborating evidence of the z spelling, then this is clearly fallout from someone incorrectly applying Commonwealth spelling to every African article they can find, unaware that American English has long had a foothold in the African continent (via Liberia, since the 1800s), reinforced by modern ESL programs in many places around the world strongly shifting toward AmEng. That said, I would like to see more evidence. The nom actually seems to have gotten this same thing wrong at the related RM at Talk:National Unity Democratic Organisation, relying on a third party rather than the actual organization for how it spells its name.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  09:54, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose The nom is using a Facebook page to support their move proposal. Yet another Facebook page of the group uses the "organisation" spelling. Given the nom was wrong about the National Unity Democratic Organisation I would therefore cautiously oppose this nomination. Searches for Namibia National Students Organization produce 871 results. Searches for Namibia National Students Organisation produce 4,080 results. AusLondonder (talk) 20:04, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

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Commons files used on this page have been nominated for speedy deletion

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• Nanso Logo.jpg
• Nanso Unam.jpg
• Nust Nanso.png

You can see the reasons for deletion at the file description pages linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 06:07, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Namibia National Students Organisation

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Namibia National Students Organisation's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "auto":

• From International Union of Students: The British Broadcasting Corporation (1992): 'International organisations protest expulsion from Czechoslovakia'; BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, January 15, 1992, Part 2 Eastern Europe; A. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS; 1. GENERAL AND WESTERN AFFAIRS; EE/1278/A1/ 1
• From Students Union of Namibia: https://neweralive.com.na/posts/nanso-infight-sparks-mass-exodus |Nanso infight sparks mass exodus - New Era Live

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:17, 3 October 2019 (UTC)