Talk:Major League Football (MLF)

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Since there's an other article for the other league with the same name (Major League Football (MLFB)), I think it's appropriate that we'll change the name to reflect how the general public view the league. The "go-to" name which reference the league "starting date" is non-relevant in this case since the league had multiple starting dates, and the claimed starting date is not reflective to the year they intended to start. Furthermore, the league highlight their acronym to distinguish it from the other league. Ccui123 (talk) 15:52, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

I disagree. Per longstanding consensus, we don't title articles in a "name (acronym)" format. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 04:38, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 8 November 2023

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. (closed by non-admin page mover) — MaterialWorks 19:13, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

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• Major League Football (MLF) → Major League Football (2019)
• Major League Football (MLFB) → Major League Football (2014)

– Avoid WP:Name (acronym) format. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 04:56, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Support per nom. Ortizesp (talk) 06:18, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

• Support in principle. Although it appears neither of them actually got off the ground in those years. But better than the current disambiguators. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:50, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Oppose This is a rare instance that don't fit the norm (as well as the two leagues use them constantly). Lets say there're two company's named "Amazon" that trade under a different symbol, are we still gonna use the starting year to differentiated one from another? Also, the years suggested are not the ones we should use in case we decide to use years in the title (2016 and 2022, respectively). Ccui123 (talk) 15:39, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Oppose The MLFB is the public traded symbol for the Major League Football (MLFB), and because they had two cancelled season choosing a year might won't be the right idea (as some could argue that the 2022 season was more significant). Another option is to change it to "Major League Football, Inc." but it might won't be a good idea since we're talking about a sports league...StanleyKey (talk) 15:31, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose. In general, I agree with nominator that this format is not preferred, and a date is superior. The problem is that the date the reading public would be interested in would be the year of the first season, not the founding date of the company attempting to create a season. For example, we'd disambiguate a book or movie by publication year, not by year that the author started writing or year that the funding for the movie was approved, which are both obscure trivia. But apparently neither has started a season yet, so ???. SnowFire (talk) 23:07, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose. Since the both leagues still (never?) haven't started yet, "stamping" both with a year seams a bit irrelevant at this point. If one or both would start we can change it later. BabyBOY789 (talk) 18:00, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

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