Talk:South Australian Register

A fact from South Australian Register appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 November 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the South Australian Register was the first newspaper to be produced and distributed in South Australia?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/November.

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Requested move 16 February 2018 edit

Latest comment: 6 years ago6 comments4 people in discussion

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. See nothing in the page history nor move logs that would indicate that this article has had any title other than the present title, which appears to have been stable for more than eleven years. As is usual with a no-consensus outcome, editors may continue to attempt to garner consensus to find the highest and best name for this article. Gentle reminder for future debate is that reliable sources are your friends. Happy Publishing! (closed by page mover) Paine Ellsworth ^put'r there 04:06, 2 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

South Australian Register → The Register (Adelaide) – Revert to page name from which a redirect was made in 2013 (the newspaper changed it's name, so the latest one should have greatest weight (as per WP:NAMECHANGES)). Good examples of this are The Chronicle (South Australia), The Observer (Adelaide), Sunday Mail (Adelaide), and The Advertiser (Adelaide) all of which consistently use the final and more common (rather than the first) name of the newspaper. JabberJaw (talk) 03:00, 16 February 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. –Ammarpad (talk) 06:04, 23 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Oppose: The paper was the South Australian Register for most of its history, notably during its years as a fiercely independent paper in the days of George Stevenson the Kyffin Thomases and John Howard Clark, who were making history as well as reporting it. Doug butler (talk) 03:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

I can understand a "historical viewpoint" (as with other publications I listed) but this does not address the policy issue (which the banner requests). Also, the current usage in the article shows that "The Register" is used 16 times in the article (plus 8 references) vs. "South Australian Register" 3 times (plus 5 references). Technically, the final name of the publication was Register News-Pictorial, but I have not seen that used as a common name (hence The Register - which is also used by the State Library for the overall publication). JabberJaw (talk) 01:07, 23 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Support per WP:NAMECHANGES, if the final name is more common. feminist (talk) 03:35, 23 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

In terms of background, the article was created conceptually as "The Register" on 19 Nov. 2006 in terms of the newspaper's common name as used since 2006 in the lead and main paragraphs (i.e. entire revision history). Similarly, "Register" is also a common term that is used generically and interchangeably (AFAIK) for most/all manifestations the publication (as per the library eg. cited above), since the word Register exists across all titles. Another usage eg. is here. JabberJaw (talk) 04:43, 23 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

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