Talk:1975 Piccadilly bombing

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Latest comment: 6 years ago by Gateshead001 in topic Requested move 21 May 2018

Renaming discussion

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I think the current article name is bad and unclear. The name clearly tells us it's a station bombing when it's not - it was just outside it. To be fair, it's difficult to choose a different name, so I want to get people's opinions about this. Calling it 'Green Park' bombing also sounds wrong as it would imply it happened within that large park area. I'm not sure if 'Piccadilly' bombing sounds okay, but these sources https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/10/archives/one-killed-and-18-hurt-in-piccadilly-bombing.html https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1993/mar/04/prevention-of-terrorism-legislation and http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/9/newsid_2531000/2531191.stm call it 'Piccadilly', so perhaps that is a more accepted/'official' name. What do you all think? --Gateshead001 (talk) 23:57, 19 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

I'd agree that this wasn't really a tube station bombing, more like a bus stop bombing, and that Green Park would be misleading even though it's just over the road. Piccadilly has been bombed multiple times, so we'd have to prepend the year. So I'd be happy to go for 1975 Piccadilly bombing, per the quoted news sources. I think there was only one in that year. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:06, 20 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Still an attack on the station and tube users In ictu oculi (talk) 10:07, 21 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Zzuuzz: @In ictu oculi: I've opened a formal move request (to attract more attention). --Gateshead001 (talk) 23:51, 21 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 21 May 2018

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The result of the move request was: Moved to 1975 Piccadilly bombing Gateshead001 (talk) 23:42, 30 May 2018 (UTC)Reply



Green Park tube station bombing → ? – As per argument above. I am thinking that 1975 Piccadilly bombing would be a perfect new name, especially as the sources (in section above) call it 'Piccadilly'. Gateshead001 (talk) 23:56, 21 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

I think a merge could make sense.--Cúchullain t/c 17:20, 30 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

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