Talk:Snow squall

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Requested move 6 March 2023

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Snowsquall → Snow squall – Predominant usage of the two-word spelling in official and news sources in both the US and Canada. Target currently occupied by a redirect to the original title. Highway 89 (talk) 14:20, 6 March 2023 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). Steel1943 (talk) 19:04, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

(The following discussion thread initiated at WP:RMTR.) Steel1943 (talk) 19:04, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

@Highway 89: WP:COMMONNAME claims are inherently controversial. Also, seems the article has been at the current title since 2006 ... for almost 17 years! Full WP:RM needed. Steel1943 (talk) 14:34, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

@Highway 89: Pinging proposer to inform them discussion has moved here. Steel1943 (talk) 19:04, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

• Support based on my own sense of COMMONNAME and then backed up by looking at some official sites, news sites, and google ngrams, where the word variant out numbers the one word variant by a very large margin. Skynxnex (talk) 22:36, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
• Comment as original nominator. In addition to my original nomination/support, I want to note that back when this was created in 2006, this was a much more niche topic. Coverage and general public knowledge of the concept greatly increased after the U.S. National Weather Service introduced the Snow squall warning (spelled as two words) in 2018, as these alerts are often considered significant enough to trigger the Wireless Emergency Alerts system on cell phones. Highway 89 (talk) 22:50, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
• Support - Per nom and WP:COMMONNAME. Supported by both Ngram [1] and Google Trends [2]. Estar8806 (talk) 23:53, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Just realized my Ngram was flawed due to a capitalization error, this updated one [3] demonstrates commonname nonetheless. Estar8806 (talk) 23:55, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

• Support. Dictionary.com doesn't even list snowsquall as a word. Station1 (talk) 05:16, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
• Support Rreagan007 (talk) 17:57, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
• Support Per nom. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:47, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nom.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:10, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

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