Talk:WRC2

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The result of the move request was: withdrawn(non-admin closure) Rally Wonk (talk) 14:24, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• World Rally Championship-2 → WRC2 Championship
• World Rally Championship-3 → WRC3 Championship
• Junior World Rally Championship → Junior WRC Championship
• World Rally Championship-3 (2013–2018) → WRC3 Championship (2013–2018)

• Support per nom. Unnamelessness (talk) 11:38, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support per nom. Rpo.castro (talk) 16:11, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - If these are the "correct and up to date terms", can we see some evidence of this? Even if these are the
  WP:COMMONNAMEs of these subjects as used by independent reliable sources? HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 18:21, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  Please see the topic above for more detail on why they are currently officially incorrect,

  WP:RM; and the sporting regulations

  including the proposed new names which have been used for a decade. I'll add the official Junior WRC social media accounts use that term.

  As for common names, I don't think anybody outside of Wikipedia, whether officials, media or third parties use anything else but WRC2 or WRC3. An internet search for "World Rally Championship 2" for example, only links to this article and its clones, and the historic video game of the same name. A search for "WRC2" gets results for the official site, the participant's official sites, social media, various publishing/magazine media... etc etc. A Twitter search shows about as much use of "WRC2" in the last hour than "World Rally Championship 2" did in all of 2022 and these latter are mostly of the game again.

  Junior World Rally Championship does return some search results other than its Wikipedia article but not high quality results, and by far not as common as JWRC or Junior WRC (Google Trends). Twitter usage concurs. IMO nobody uses this term orally, probably because it's a mouthful! Rally Wonk (talk) 22:45, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Support moving WRC2 and WRC3 articles, (somewhat procedurally) Oppose moving Junior article - With the WRC2 and WRC3 examples it does seem that these are both the
  WP:OFFICIALNAME in the past and that version of the name actually defines the "WRC" acronym, which makes the title's meaning clearer to readers. If the 2000s incarnation was a world championship while the 2010s incarnation is not that is also a possible argument for splitting, although coverage in sources would need to be considered. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 06:17, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  "There is also the fact that "Junior World Rally Championship" (as opposed to "Junior WRC") has been an

  WP:OFFICIALNAME

  in the past and that version of the name actually defines the "WRC" acronym"

  But have you assumed that? The argument is that no definition is officially given, what WRC means here is implied or deliberately left vague by the FIA, which makes more sense when in the past they have said "you cannot call it Junior World Rally Championship" because of conditions that still exist which aren't being met by modern Junior WRC. For me at least, not being incorrect overrules the common name aspect.

  Happy to have the conversation on splitting the article but there is usually World Motor Sport Council or press releases, or 3rd party sources to suggest each change replaced the previous, and commonly, the champions are all celebrated together. Rally Wonk (talk) 17:37, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose. The abbreviations are unrecognisable to many people. The
  primary sources do not count for much. Andrewa (talk) 21:51, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Comment - This isn't just a question of common names versus official names, it's about the current titles being verifiably incorrect (although IMO, not even common). Please see various essays and policy on Truth. Rally Wonk (talk) 13:36, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  I think you misunderstand the policy and practice here, depending on what you mean by verifiably incorrect. This seems to be a similar argument to that of the corporate flunky who wanted to change a page name to reflect reality in terms of our company page. The reality our page titles reflect is that of English usage. Similarly, if English speakers use a name, it's not verifiably incorrect, just the opposite. It may be that English would be improved if they used some other name instead but here is

  not the place to work for that. But if you can provide evidence that the abbreviations are common and would be at least as recognisable as the current titles, that would be relevant. Andrewa (talk) 07:03, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply

  ]

  Thanks John.

  I have already mentioned google search results and social media usage that show nobody but Wikipedia users and scrapers are using eg. "World Rally Championship 2", and that any independent parties I find are overwhelmingly exclusively using "WRC2". I'll add that Wikipedia has tremendous power to influence the creation of further incorrect sources in the rally space, which creates a negative feedback loop which I think we should work to avoid.

  As said, I cannot think of a single credible person or outlet, official or otherwise, who uses "World Rally Championship 2". You said: "The abbreviations are unrecognisable to many people". I must counter, please can you provide any source, context or evidence for this claim to aid the discussion, that itself isn't derived off these Wikipedia articles? It absolutely bewilders me and is extremely difficult to believe that anybody who is familiar with the topic would make such a statement, it borders on questionable disingenuousness. So I'll hold the conversation about policies for now John, as I'm not sure there's any point. Rally Wonk (talk) 14:53, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject World Rally has been notified of this discussion. – robertsky (talk) 03:31, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• oppose in this situation,
  WP:commonname trumps official name. The proposed titles also fails recognisability. After reading the them, to me, they sound like some championship regarding robots. We also have a policy that says to avoid abbreviations, I forgot the name of the policy. It is the reason why CIA, DIA, and FBI are not abbreviated. If you are concerned about search results, simply convert these proposed titles into redirects, they are valid titles for redirects. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:42, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  Thanks for your input @Usernamekiran. Would you be so kind as to provide any supporting evidence at all that the current names are common names? I've asked other opposers claiming the same thing too but nobody will, which is jolly frustrating. Rally Wonk (talk) 22:13, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  @Rally Wonk: Hi. I'm currently on mobile. I will respond to you in detail tomorrow. —usernamekiran (talk) 22:29, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose current suggestion based on previous comments and as they most certainly are not common names. Google search: World Rally Championship-2 over 35million hits vs WRC2 Championship less than 1.2million hits; Junior World Rally Championship over 6million hits vs Junior WRC Championship less than 1.8million hits. If the search terms would be put between quotation marks "World Rally Championship-2"=22K, "WRC2 Championship"=3.3K but "WRC2"=1.1mil; "Junior World Rally Championship"=32.5K, "Junior WRC Championship"=9.1K, but "Junior WRC"=190K. In conclusion, the common names would be WRC2, WRC3 and Junior WRC. This is how media and people refer to them and if necessary I can prove it with news articles and even using wrc.com (official website). But i guess Google search gives you the point anyway. -Pelmeen10 (talk) 11:34, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Your first Google search for World Rally Championship-2 returns many results about the popular video games, which this article is most definitely not about.

  Whilst I would be OK with WRC2, I think adding Championship is not too precise and remains in deference to common names as described under

  WP:Precision. It also works as disambiguation from the video games, WRC II Extreme and WRC 2: FIA World Rally Championship. Rally Wonk (talk) 20:28, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply

  ]

  @Rally Wonk: Hi. I apologise, I forgot about getting back to this. Pelmeen10 has explained how to look for common names. There is also ngram, but it is not much useful in this case. —usernamekiran (talk) 03:32, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  @Usernamekiran, I'm not fully clear on your comment - what is ngram? What was your point on @Pelmeen10's searches?

  Along with your previous post, I'm guessing if you are referring to

  WP:NCACRO

  , then it's irrelevant as these names, (WRC2), are not acronyms or abbreviations. Any automatic inference some have that these stand for anything like 'WRC' commonly and officially stands for 'World Rally Championship', is wrong both officially (provable) and commonly (cannot be proven true).

  For "World Rally Championship 2" does not exist anywhere but in Wikipedia or where it's been sourced by Wikipedia (ie clones). It's neither the official name nor in common usage as Pelmeen10 has confirmed.

  Re: CIA, FBI: looks like there is no such policy, these were decided by editors to be used in full as common. There is NATO and BBC for example. However as said, irrelevant as there is no expansion for WRC2, unless it's to WRC2 Championship ;).

  . Rally Wonk (talk) 12:33, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]