Talk:Chelmsford City Racecourse

Requested move 04 October 2014

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 21:45, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

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Great Leighs Racecourse → Chelmsford City Racecourse – change of name Bcp67 (talk) 11:07, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Discussion

Great Leighs is now known as Chelmsford City and referred to as such in media sources e.g. here [1]. Article needs to be renamed, and the current redirect will have to be deleted. --Bcp67 (talk) 11:07, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

From that article, I gather this is a relatively new racecourse and an even newer renaming? I'm leaning support, though only if this is not one of those situations like the Breeders' Cup Distaff where we will be renaming again every other year... ? Montanabw^(talk) 20:06, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Yep, it's shortly to re-open under the new article and I suspect the re-branding is partly an attempt to move away from the failed first opening. In removing the speedy tag from the redirect page RHaworth reckoned it was too early to move the article, so I decided to put up a RM and see where the discussion goes. --Bcp67 (talk) 20:20, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Based on the previous history of this outfit may I suggest that it would be prudent to wait until at least one meeting takes place under the new name. Clearly some rebranding is going on but some much has been promised before that has never happened for one reason or another. S a g a C i t y (talk) 21:14, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Let's define "shortly" and perhaps get a sense of when they will hold a meet? I can see a benefit in renaming prior to a meet if it is in process. If there has been a change or ownership or some reason for rebranding that makes sense, I don't want to put up an artificial barrier. Still leaning yes, but would like more data. Montanabw^(talk) 05:32, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

It's been granted fixtures for 2015 and I think the first meeting is due in January. However, for the moment I'm thinking of withdrawing the RM and waiting until racing actually resumes. "Chelmsford City" is an awful name actually, as the course is a fair distance from Chelmsford! --Bcp67 (talk) 15:33, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

I think it's a bit too soon. Given the history, I'd wait till they actually started holding meetings. If someone mentions Chelmsford City Racecoure I have to stop for a second before thinking "oh, the place that used to be Great Leighs". Official names aren't always the best: I can't see much call to move Newbury Racecourse to The Racecourse, Newbury. Let's come back in January. Tigerboy1966  21:43, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Looks to me like the consensus is to keep the article where it is, for now at least, which is fair enough. --Bcp67 (talk) 22:30, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

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Change of name

Is this article ready for the change of name yet? Course has its first meeting this Sunday under the new name and is being generally referred to in the media as Chelmsford City now. --Bcp67 (talk) 17:42, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm going to try the RM again and see what happens.

Requested move 11 January 2015

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Bcp67 (talk) 18:56, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

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Great Leighs Racecourse → Chelmsford City Racecourse – racecourse has now re-opened and is being referred to by the media as Chelmsford City - BBC, Racing Post - both stories refer to the course as being previously known as Great Leighs Bcp67 (talk) 17:22, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

• Support, this is clearly the used name. GregKaye 17:42, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Article has been moved - RM to be closed. --Bcp67 (talk) 18:51, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

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