Talk:Marton–New Plymouth line

Latest comment: 7 years ago by Amakuru in topic Requested move 11 February 2017

Requested move 11 February 2017

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The result of the move request was: Moved. Consensus that it is not treated as a proper name by reliable sources.  — Amakuru (talk) 10:45, 20 February 2017 (UTC)Reply



Marton–New Plymouth LineMarton–New Plymouth line – Case fix per WP:NCCAPS, WP:TITLEFORMAT, MOS:CAPS; source do not cap line in this. Dicklyon (talk) 15:31, 11 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

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I should also note that this line has been gazetted by the New Zealand Government as Marton-New Plymouth Line, making this its official, legal name. It would seem that the proper name exception of WP:NCCAPS applies here. — Matthew25187 (talk) 09:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
I'm not sure what gazetted means, but it does not appear that this official proper name has caught on much, so maybe sticking with "Lines should be referred to by their most common name" is still the right thing to do? Dicklyon (talk) 05:39, 17 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
The New Zealand Gazette is an official publication of the New Zealand Government that is similar in nature to the Federal Register. Amongst other things, final rulings of government agencies are published here. The aforementioned gazette notice from the New Zealand Geographic Board establishes place names to be used in official publications and are also generally adopted by other non-government related entities (e.g. cartographers). If you do a search on the New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names, you'll find some background on this name, including a note that it is currently the official name for this feature.
The examples cited in WP:COMMONNAME in support of the commonly used name approach range from common names that are shortened versions of official names to official names that are demonstrably different from the commonly used names for the same subject. That is not at issue here: the proposed change is only one of case, and as I've noted the relevant Wikipedia policy has an exception for "proper" (official?) names. Anyone searching for this subject on the Wikipedia web site should see the article appear in the auto-search drop-down list below the search field regardless of case entered, and Wikipedia automatically redirects to the appropriate article if the only difference between the search term and article title is a matter of case. Given this, renaming the article as suggested is not going to make it easier to find. I still don't see a compelling case for not using the official name for this subject. — Matthew25187 (talk) 12:06, 19 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

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