Talk:Metropolitan Club (New York City)

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Reason for rename

By 1891, the New York Times had been reporting about another "Metropolitan Club" for over a decade. The Times noted the confusion that the second organization "in the neighborhood" would cause:
HEADLINE: VERY HARD ON THE POSTMEN.; IT WOULD SEEM THAT THERE IS ONE METROPOLITAN CLUB TOO MANY.
The word "The" is part of the subject of this article. Pi314m (talk) 23:17, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 18 April 2024

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 (non-admin closure) microbiologyMarcus ^{[petri dish·growths]} 17:25, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:PRIMARYTOPIC

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It's not so much that the phrase "Metropolitan Club" doesn't have a primary topic, it's just that the primary topic varies by context:

If you're in national politics or the Washington Metro, there's a 100% chance you're referring to the Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.)
If you're in the women's club movement or the San Francisco Bay, there's a 100% chance you're referring to the Metropolitan Club (San Francisco)
If you're in finance or the New York metro, there's a 100% chance you're referring to the Metropolitan Club

Since we have readers from many contexts, I think it makes sense to rename this article and repurpose this page name to a disambiguation. This follows the model of Cosmopolitan Club (New York City)/Cosmopolitan Club. - RevelationDirect (talk) 12:02, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note If this passes, links in biographies and other articles will need to be updated, which I'm happy to do. - RevelationDirect (talk) 12:02, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support The usage is definitely location and context-based. This should be a disambig. --Engineerchange (talk) 13:17, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support the New York one has 1,656 views but the Washington one has 1,745[[1]]. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:37, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Diffuse/broad term. Svartner (talk) 17:56, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:17, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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.