Talk:The World (South African newspaper)

Latest comment: 18 years ago by Lambiam in topic Requested move

Requested move

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Welcome to the discussion about whether to move The Bantu World to The World, in order to reflect the name by which this black South African publication was known since the 1950s.

DocDee 21:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Currently The World is a redirect page to World. I think it should be made a redirect to World (disambiguation). At the moment there are already the following pages:
Using just "The World" as the new page title is not acceptable; a title of the form "The World (X)" is required. I would suggest "The World (The Bantu World)". --LambiamTalk 09:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Would " 'The World' Newspaper" work? DocDee 22:52, 14 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

That would be a totally unconventional way of naming a Wikipedia article. I see several other acceptable solutions:
  1. Use "The World (South African newspaper)". Compare for example The Witness (South African newspaper).
  2. Use "The World (former newspaper)".
  3. Move The World (newspaper) to "The World (proposed British newspaper)" (which I consider to be an uncontroversial move), adjust the single incoming link, have the resulting redirect page deleted, and then re-use the – now free – "The World (newspaper)".
I have no preference, but numbers 1 and 2 can be effected immediately while number 3 is more work. Basically, anything of the form "The World (X)" is fine if "X" is a reasonable disambiguating term, but unfortunately currently "newspaper" is taken by something that does not exist and may never exist under this name. --LambiamTalk 06:00, 15 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
  • Thanks to all who participated in the above discussion. Given the consensus, I will now move the article to 'The World (South African newspaper)'.