Talk:Ovalau

Unable to disambiguate

This article contains a link to the dab page on Bure, but none of the available meanings there seems to fit the context in this article. If you can help, please disambiguate. -- Chris j wood 14:52, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Requested move 27 July 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: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} 20:27, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

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Ovalau (Fiji) → Ovalau – I propose moving this article's title to Ovalau, because Ovalau (Tonga) is also known as Avalau, and the Tongan island appears to be more commonly called Avalau. The small Tongan island doesn't appear to be inhabited, meanwhile the Fijian Ovalau has about 9 thousand people. It seems much more likely to me that someone would mean the Fijian island when searching Ovalau, given the page views statistics (Fijian island - 337 views in June 2023, Tongan island - 9 views in June 2023). toweli (talk) 16:30, 27 July 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 21:11, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose ev 16:18, 27 July 2023 Toweli talk contribs m 1,356 bytes 0 Toweli moved page Ovalau (Tonga) to Avalau (Tonga): this name appears to be more common" I don't think you should have moved the other article without making it part of this RM. In ictu oculi (talk) 19:29, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
• Support as the primary topic (page views: [1]). Adumbrativus (talk) 03:49, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Relisting comment: Would like more participants. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 21:11, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

• Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 03:08, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Since so much time has already passed on this RM, I opened a new one at Talk:Ovalau (Tonga)#Requested move 14 August 2023 in order to take care of that move (which seems to be the source of the only opposition here). I'll state it for the record here as well: It appears that the Tongan island really should go to Avalau as the only usage of Ovalau there is in a German source, while others WP:USEENGLISH. All in all, I don't see any reason this proposed move should not occur while the other RM handles the other proposal. The current hatnote should eliminate any ambiguity in the meantime. -2pou (talk) 16:51, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.