Talk:Second government of Pedro Sánchez

Requested move 20 August 2020

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. —usernamekiran (talk) 23:34, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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• Sánchez II Government → Second government of Pedro Sánchez
• Sánchez I Government → First government of Pedro Sánchez
• Rajoy II Government → Second government of Mariano Rajoy
• Rajoy I Government → First government of Mariano Rajoy
• Zapatero II Government → Second government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
• Zapatero I Government → First government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
• Aznar II Government → Second government of José María Aznar
• Aznar I Government → First government of José María Aznar
• González IV Government → Fourth government of Felipe González
• González III Government → Third government of Felipe González
• González II Government → Second government of Felipe González
• González I Government → First government of Felipe González
• Calvo-Sotelo Government → Government of Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
• Suárez III Government → Third government of Adolfo Suárez
• Suárez II Government → Second government of Adolfo Suárez
• Suárez I Government → First government of Adolfo Suárez
• Arias Navarro II Government → Second government of Carlos Arias Navarro
• Arias Navarro I Government → First government of Carlos Arias Navarro
• Carrero Blanco Government → Government of Luis Carrero Blanco
• Franco VIII Government → Eighth government of Francisco Franco
• Franco VII Government → Seventh government of Francisco Franco
• Franco VI Government → Sixth government of Francisco Franco
• Franco V Government → Fifth government of Francisco Franco
• Franco IV Government → Fourth government of Francisco Franco
• Franco III Government → Third government of Francisco Franco
• Franco II Government → Second government of Francisco Franco
• Franco I Government → First government of Francisco Franco

– As per WP:COMMONNAME (with the issue of recognizability being the most important here), WP:NATURAL and WP:PRECISE, with the due required respect to WP:NCCAPS and the WP naming convention on government agencies which, while not of direct application (as these are not proper government departments or agencies), can serve as a general guideline for clarification.

• Some context: For a long time, government/cabinet articles have been entirely absent of any specific naming conventions in Wikipedia, leading to a wide range of different choices for naming those that were typically left at the users' leisure. The main differences revolve on capitalization, numbering format and syntax, with the three most common formats currently at use throughout the wiki being reflected in this discussion earlier this year attempting to seek a consensus on the issue (which ultimately went nowhere because of failing to gain attention, meaning this must be addressed in a case-by-case basis). At the time, I was more supportive of the [Head of government] [ordinal number] [government/cabinet/ministry] format (i.e. the one that is currently in use for the articles whose move is now requested), but it has several problems, of which two are the most concerning ones: 1. it is not natural spelling, so while it can be very useful as an actual proper name for use when brevity is required (tables, templates and infoboxes) it is unlikely to be the title that readers will look the most for those articles. And 2. (and the one ultimately leading me to change my view) is that of precision: using only surnames paves the way for a lot of confusion to unfold, both at the national level (i.e. the governments of Felipe González and Antonio González; José María Aznar and Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas; Pedro Sánchez and Vicente Sancho; Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, Fernando Fernández de Córdova and Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde) and at the regional one (Felipe González and Ignacio González; Patxi López and Joaquín María López y López; the aforementioned Fernández ones and Javier Fernández/Guillermo Fernández Vara/Alfonso Fernández Mañueco; etc.). This not counting other Spanish-speaking countries where surnames such as "García", "Sánchez", "Fernández", "González", etc. are also common and can lead to conflicts at an international scale. Even if the second surname was forced into the title for disambiguation, it could lead to further issues if the individual is not well-known under that second surname (i.e. Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, José María Aznar López) and if the overall title ends up looking cluttered by a random aggregation of ordinal numbers, surnames and overall syntax.
• Premise: The purpose of this move request is to help bring some order and coherence to the disorganized scope of government/cabinet naming by presenting articles on Spanish national governments under a more natural, recognizable, professional-looking and overall polished syntax that is also respectful of sources (for Spanish governments, these usually use the word "government" together with its identification to the incumbent prime minister at the time. Articles for governments in some countries use the [Ordinal number] [government/cabinet/ministry] of [Head of government/country/legislature] format (Second cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Government of the 32nd Dáil, Second cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić, First Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa, Thirty-fifth government of Israel, Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand), as opposed to the Fourth Merkel cabinet/Second May ministry format which does not body well with the Spanish-speaking world system of surnames because of the aforementioned problems.

As a result, the proposal is to change the titles of the aforementioned Spanish national governments to the "[Ordinal number] government of [the prime minister's common name]" format and capitalized with respect to WP:NCCAPS, in the way that has been requested. In the event that only one government was formed by any given person (such as Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo) then no ordinal would be required. Impru20^talk 00:23, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

• Support. XYZ I, ABC II, etc, appear to be royal names. © Tbhotch^™ (en-3). 00:43, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
• I consider it unnecessarily long. I would prefer a shorter title such us "First González government, Second..." and in the case of Calvo-Sotelo just "Calvo-Sotelo government".TheRichic (Messages here) 08:52, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

@TheRichic: I know and I thought of it as an alternative choice, but then it comes the issue of the multiple surname system in Spanish-speaking countries and in many heads of government in the Spanish-speaking world using fairly-common surnames ("Fernández", "Sánchez", "González"). A system like that has been in practice (albeit unofficially) for some time for regional governments, and it's somewhat chaotic: Second Susana Díaz government, Díaz Ayuso government, Third Fernández Vara Government and Fernández Mañueco Government (note that I moved these ones last year ago from their original Third Guillermo Fernández Government and Alfonso Fernández Government titles, which were even harder to recognize), González Government (Community of Madrid), Javier Fernández government... disambiguation is required most of the time, but its application is unconsistent: sometimes the name is used, sometimes the second surname is added, sometimes the place is preferred... and that syntax only makes the overall picture look messy.

The proposal I made attempts to avoid such trauma for Spanish national governments by always using the (full) common name of the officeholder ("Pedro Sánchez", not "Sánchez" or "Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón"), while reminding that this is still a government-related topic, meaning that clarity and naturalness should blend well with a feeling of institutionality and professionality. The major sacrifice comes on the length, true, but that's not a major issue for government-related topics as per WP:NCGAL and, ultimately, advantages on disambiguation make this choice far superior. After all, we already have names such as Cabinet of Donald Trump (not "Trump cabinet"), Government of the 32nd Dáil (not "32nd Dáil Government"), Second cabinet of Geir Haarde (not "Second Haarde cabinet"), XXI Constitutional Government of Portugal (not "Portuguese XXI Constitutional Government") and so on. And still, it's shorter than other proposals that could be thrown (it should be noted that Arias Navarro II Government was originally named as 1st Government under the restored Monarchy of Spain, which is both similar in lenght or even longer and not precise enough as the proposal made, since there was another widely-known Restoration of the Monarchy in Spain in 1874/1875 and a first government under it). Impru20^talk 10:04, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

• Support as proposed. It's fair to say that the current titles are broken English. I concur with Impru20 that having full prime minister names makes it sufficiently unambiguous and precise without sacrificing much of conciseness. No such user (talk) 14:30, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
• Comment I have added some more articles of new creation on Spanish governments. As a matter of convenience, those have been created under the old format since I didn't feel it was right to name them using the newly-proposed scheme with this RM still ongoing. However, their fate should obviously be the same as that of the other articles, with the same arguments applying. Impru20^talk 23:44, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

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