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This entry is about the organisation, ASCOBANS, a UN sponsored body concerned with the conservation of small cetaceans (dolphins and porpoises) in the North and BAltic Seas. Similar entries appear in Wikipedia for other related UN conservation bodies.
Year of the Dolphin is not ASCOBANS
It appears that Welshwalrus' contribution to the ASCOBANS Wikipedia entry on 04 August was placed in the wrong location. While ASCOBANS is a partner to the Year of the Dolphin (see ASCOBANS in the Public Eye), the Agreement is separate from the initiative. Factual information concerning the Year of the Dolphin should be placed on the entry for the Year of the Dolphin (also to be found on Wikipedia), but not on the ASCOBANS Site. Opinion-based information could perhaps be posted on the page dealing with that subject (in this case Year of the Dolphin) in a specified sub-heading that deals with external opinions, or perhaps such concerns/comments/criticisms/suggestions could be addressed in the Discussions page rather than editing the existing Wikipedia entry itself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ASCOBANSsecretariat (talk • contribs) 14:13, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Requested move 20 August 2019
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. There was consensus to move the article from the acronym. I chose the full present title of the agreement and redirected the old title
Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas to it.(non-admin closure) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:52, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply
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Convention on Migratory Species, which use their full name, not the acronym. Also MoS says an acronym can be used when the subject is well known primarily by its abbreviation, ASCOBANS is not. Jesuiseduardo (talk) 17:47, 20 August 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. — Newslingertalk 04:33, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply
@Jesuiseduardo and SnowFire: Judging by the website, it does indeed seem that ASCOBANS is known as this ( https://www.ascobans.org/ ): prominent use of ASCOBANS in the logo & headlines, an "About ASCOBANS" section, etc. [1] is a recent news article that uses ASCOBANS. This seems like it needs a full discussion. SnowFire (talk) 19:41, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. It's usually better to use an encyclopedic topic's full name as its article title, rather than just an abbreviation. The org does use the full name on its website. - Station1 (talk) 23:24, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The name "Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas" seems to be more commonly used, even in works published after the official name changed in 2008. Colin M (talk) 00:30, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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