Talk:Los Angeles Open

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: Not moved, opposition based on

Los Angeles Open → Genesis Invitational – No evidence that "Los Angeles Open" is the common name for this tournament. No reliable golf media outlets use this name. A previous RM used the Western Open as justification for keeping the older name; however I'd argue that this is a bad example, as it was always known as some variation of "Sponsorname Western Open". This event is not known as the "Genesis Los Angeles Open", and has not been named "Los Angeles Open" since 1994. It's also been an invitational since 2020, which makes the current title particularly bad. 162 etc. (talk) 21:25, 16 August 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 05:58, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose, per the previous RM. Los Angeles Open remains the common name throughout history, even when LA was dropped from the official title, it was still commonly referred to as the LA Open for many years; it's only in very recent years that has stopped being the case. Sponsors (that we are
  not here to promote) come and go and the tournament has been known as the LA Open for the significant majority of its history; the last 3 years don't erase what has gone before. _wjemather^{please leave a message...} 22:00, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply
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Per the policy at

WP:NAMECHANGES, " we give extra weight to independent, reliable English-language sources ("reliable sources") written after the name change. If the reliable sources written after the change is announced routinely use the new name, Wikipedia should follow suit and change relevant titles to match." I've found many recent articles using the name "Genesis Invitational" ([1] [2] [3] [4]

, among others) but none using "Los Angeles Open".

The proposed title change doesn't "erase what has gone before" either... for example, the

WP:COMMONNAME. 162 etc. (talk) 17:30, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply

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That's like comparing apples and oranges – the PB Pro-Am has had pretty much the same same for over 35 years; this event changed 3 years ago. You're also arguing against points I haven't made (policy now linked above). wjemather^{please leave a message...} 15:58, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This event changed names twenty-eight years ago. "Genesis Invitational" is the current, common name, and there is no reason for our article to use an obsolete title that is no longer used by any reliable sources. A look at

WP:COMMONNAME. 162 etc. (talk) 21:15, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply

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Honda Classic, etc., are like PB and have had the same sponsor for decades so the titles have become the common names throughout their history. _wjemather^{please leave a message...} 22:11, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply

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For what it's worth, I read an article yesterday that referred to this as the L.A. Open. pʰeːnuːmuː →‎ pʰiːnyːmyː → ‎ɸinimi → ‎fiɲimi 00:03, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Support. If that the name has changed, and it is now consistently used in recent, reliable sources, then I see no reason not to change it. I would include in the article that it was "long known as the LA Open" or similar phrasing. Fredlesaltique (talk) 12:31, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. We generally try to avoid sponsorship names. It's been around for 96 years and for most of that time was known as the LA Open, has only had the proposed title for five years and will quite likely change sponsors sometime in the future. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:19, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  WP:NAMECHANGES though that the nominator quotes above. The majority of reliable sources consistently use Genesis Invitational. If the name changes again and reliable sources use a new name, then the Wikipedia article can and should follow suit. Fredlesaltique (talk) 12:39, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply

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  As I said, it has generally been accepted at RM that names that change because of sponsorship deals are best avoided. See Wikipedia:Official names#Practicality. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:42, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  WP:COMMONNAMES mentions that "An article title with non-neutral terms cannot simply be a name commonly used in the past, it must be the common name in current use." Fredlesaltique (talk) 13:00, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply

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  Some types of article suffer more from each of these problems than others... Official names of sponsored sports teams, tournaments and venues change whenever a sponsorship agreement begins or ends. Once again, common practice at RM has been not to use sponsorship names. I wouldn't object to another name, but sponsorship names are best avoided. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:04, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  I'll note that

  WP:CONLEVEL. 162 etc. (talk) 16:29, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply

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@Necrothesp: my point is that it's not just the sponsorship name, it's the common name. If you look through the articles the nominator links, most of them (I think none) even mention the name "LA Open." Fredlesaltique (talk) 14:25, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, of course it's a sponsorship name. It's only been called that for five years after having two other sponsorship names. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:33, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose per common name and most familiar name in English. Randy Kryn (talk) 19:23, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose move for the same reason I supported the move away from the sponsor name. The common name is Los Angeles Open. O.N.R. ^(talk) 20:10, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  @Randy Kryn: @Old Naval Rooftops: Can you cite present-day sources that use this name? A reply above cited a golf blog that I'm unfamiliar with, and I've tried using Google to find more, but it doesn't appear to me that the name "Los Angeles Open" is common at all. 162 etc. (talk) 21:59, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Here's an ngram, please notice that 'Genesis Invitational' is nonexistent in this regard. Los Angeles Open would also be the historically significant name (used as a major criteria for titling). Randy Kryn (talk) 23:16, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Google Ngram only goes up to 2019, and "Genesis Invitational" has been in use since 2020, so that is quite unsurprising. A number of other events named "Los Angeles Open" could also be false positives here, notably Los Angeles Open (tennis). 162 etc. (talk) 20:37, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Your comment adds more information to the historical significance of the very long-time name of the Los Angeles Open and the transitory nature of the sponsors who have come and gone. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:27, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]