Talk:Mt Kenya United F.C.

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Interstellarity in topic Requested move 9 June 2019

Requested move 9 June 2019

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Nakumatt F.C.Mt Kenya United F.C.This source confirms the club has changed names, further supported by their Facebook page. Alternative spelling of the new name is Mount Kenya United F.C. (see eg Soccerway) but more sources (and official Facebook) favour 'Mt' and I think so should we. Once moved we should create redirects at Mt Kenya United FC, Mt Kenya United, Mt. Kenya United F.C., Mt. Kenya United FC, Mt. Kenya United, Mount Kenya United FC and Mount Kenya United. GiantSnowman 17:23, 9 June 2019 (UTC)--Relisted. – Ammarpad (talk) 08:31, 19 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. GiantSnowman 17:24, 9 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
  • I'll take that as a no, it hasn't been discussed or even considered. A source may be considered primary for one statement but secondary for a different one, and sources can contain both primary and secondary source material for the same statement. [1] So to blandly say that Socccerway isn't a primary source shows no understanding of the policy. Best. Andrewa (talk) 20:13, 26 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
  • @Andrewa and GiantSnowman: Seeing as I was pinged here... Soccerway is a WP:RS for playing stats, teams' fixtures and results, and to some extent player personal details (dob, height): it's published by a reputable media organisation with a reputation for fact checking, it accepts sourced corrections, and it doesn't accept corrections if it doesn't think the sourcing is adequate. As far as I'm aware, that's what most editors use it for. I've never considered using it to source a club's exact official name (to be fair, I only remember one occasion when I've wanted to source a club's official name), and wouldn't use a general football database for common name because all databases have their own house style. It lists club names in their native language e.g. FK Crvena zvezda Beograd, where our common name is (after umpteen RMs) Red Star Belgrade. In the Nakumatt case, I'd expect it to reflect the name change as per the club's media or that of the appropriate governing body, and its orthography to follow that of its source. Which does make it effectively a primary source. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 10:44, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
  • That is likely to be based on a press release. If so it's another primary source (far more clearly than Soccerway in fact, which at this stage is a maybe). The evidence we need is articles etc that refer to the club by its new name in discussing something else rather than in discussing the renaming itself. And we now seem to have these. Andrewa (talk) 20:53, 26 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
  • I love that you're dismissing every source as primary and assuming that they get their info from a press release? You're the only person opposing it. Maybe take the hint? GiantSnowman 07:36, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

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Please note this edit and the following discussion there. It may or may not be considered canvassing but it should I believe be noted.

Please note I don't object to the initial heads-up listing this discussion at the Wikiproject. But I think the discussion section at the Wikiproject talk page was unfortunate. Andrewa (talk) 18:37, 26 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

More important, we still seem to be relying on primary sources above. Note that a source can be primary for some information and secondary for others. If it just repeats the club's official name and automatically changes that whenever the club changes it, then for that information it's a primary source. Andrewa (talk) 17:50, 26 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

That last !vote does finally provide some relevant evidence! Note wp:NAMECHANGES which supports preferring recent sources as has been done. Andrewa (talk) 18:29, 26 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

It's not canvassing. It's encouraging participants to discuss, given that (despite being listed on the relevant WikiProject's disucssion list, there were 0 particpants for over 2 weeks. GiantSnowman 19:39, 26 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
Borderline IMO. It appears to have been a response to my !vote, five minutes later. Andrewa (talk) 20:25, 26 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
My reading of the post is that this move should have been uncontroversial (and judging by the outcome, this held), but considering the first !voter opposed after two weeks of no attention whatsoever, more eyeballs were needed to make sure we got the correct outcome, as opposed to GiantSnowman pushing any POV. No reason to waste any more energy on this. SportingFlyer T·C 08:14, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
Agree. I'm disappointed that this hasn't been closed as move some time ago. It could certainly have been closed as soon as I withdrew my oppose !vote, immediately after the first source was provided, in fact IMO it wan't even necessary to wait for me to do that, as my rationale had lost its validity. So we had strong consensus to move. Suggest everyone read wp:closing. Why has it taken so long? Because instead of providing these sources, contributors chose to argue that they weren't necessary, post a duplicate heads-up at the Wikiproject, suggest that it was my job to find the sources, and even that I needed to change my !vote after I already had. And as a result we now have a long and daunting discussion that will take even longer to find a closer. But it will happen. We did get there.
Had the sources we now have been provided by the nominator, I would have closed it as move rather than even !voting. Andrewa (talk) 21:30, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
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