Talk:Phoenix Roadrunners (ECHL)

Requested move 10 January 2021

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 (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 00:29, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

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Phoenix Roadrunners (ECHL) → Phoenix RoadRunners (ECHL) – This version of the team styled itself as RoadRunners (note the capital R of Runners), as can be seen at their (archived) website (https://web.archive.org/web/20070520231538/http://www.phxroadrunners.com/) and as was reflected by this article until recently. Other, unconnected teams that used this name previously all used "Roadrunners", as can be seen as the disamb page Phoenix_Roadrunners 194.28.124.55 (talk) 00:46, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Ice Hockey candidates for renaming 194.28.124.55 (talk) 01:25, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose move. Third-party sources do not support CamelCase here. O.N.R. ^(talk) 09:45, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose per O.N.R. and WP:COMMONNAME. While RoadRunners was definitely the WP:OFFICIALNAME, my source searching from the time period during and after the team's existence seems to say it was only used independently about 1 in 10 articles. Even the Suns, who shared the same ownership at the time, didn't use the camel case in its own press releases. Yosemiter (talk) 17:34, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
  • Comment As per WP:OFFICIALNAME should there be a redirect then, and should the name within the article be "RoadRunners" or "Roadrunners"? If a redirect is acceptable I will withdraw the requested move. 194.28.124.55 (talk) 02:01, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
    • I don't think anyone would have strong objections, but Phoenix RoadRunners currently redirects here, and if it stays that way then Phoenix RoadRunners (ECHL) doesn't really define subject more specifically per WP:RPURPOSE. However, if Phoenix RoadRunners eventually points to the DAB page instead (as a generic search term), then Phoenix RoadRunners (ECHL) becomes the most specific. It probably won't need to be used either way as the link would need to be piped anyways to make any sentence read properly. Yosemiter (talk) 03:28, 11 January 2021 (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.