Talk:Syracuse Pulse

Move to new name?

How best to address the merger with Flower City Union? I suggest this page should be renamed to Salt City Union and the infobox updated with the new logo, uniform, stadium, etc. That would recognize the Pulse's contribution to the new combined club. SixFourThree (talk) 16:17, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Wasn't the merger temporary and they were only playing under the Salt City Union name as part of the temporary agreement? And is there still a women's team playing under the Pulse name? Those are the only real barriers I can see for redirecting the article over to Flower City Union, I don't really see a compelling need to rename this article. Jay eyem (talk) 22:17, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

When the merger was announced, it didn't have an expiration date. Appeared to be permanent, or at least indefinite.[1] And the women's team appears to be defunct; it's no longer listed on the UWS website.[2] It's a sad fact of lower-level soccer that clubs kind of wink out of existence without even a press release and we can only infer their departure when the league plays without them.

So it looks like the Pulse are truly defunct except to the extent that they remain as part of Salt City Union. The language is interesting, a "merger" not acquisition. I've added a Salt City infobox to the Flower City Union page, but this page needs cleanup to reflect the new reality. At the very least it needs to be past tense (which I can do now), but it seems appropriate that we also recognize the Pulse's role in City Union, or else we're determining that it really is a takeover and not a merger, which seems like OR to me. Thanks! SixFourThree (talk) 14:57, 9 January 2024 (UTC)