Talk:National Women's Soccer League attendance

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The result of the move request was: not moved due due to general consensus over COMMONNAME as brought up first by Steel1943. (non-admin closure) Tiggerjay (talk) 22:57, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

National Women's Soccer League attendance → NWSL attendance – commonname Hmlarson (talk) 21:23, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:59, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• @Hmlarson: Or would it be clearer to use the full name? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:59, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. NWSL is a redirect, which invalidates the
  WP:COMMONNAME claim since that would mean that National Women's Soccer League world be at NWSL, which it is not. Steel1943 (talk) 22:00, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose: per WP:CONSISTENCY - the main article is at National Women's Soccer League not NWSL; either all pages related to the National Women's Soccer League should change or none should. Ebonelm (talk) 23:14, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose: also per WP:CONSISTENCY - the article this one is intended to mirror is Major League Soccer attendance, not MLS attendance. CyMoahk2 (talk) 23:22, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Support re: WP:CONSISTENCY - either this should be changed to NWSL attendance or the following should be changed in reverse:
• NWSL expansion
• NWSL Player Allocation
• List of NWSL drafts
• NWSL College Draft
• NWSL Player of the Week
• NWSL awards
• NWSL Player of the Month
• NWSL Playoffs
• List of foreign NWSL players
• 2014 NWSL Expansion Draft
• 2013 NWSL College Draft
• 2015 NWSL College Draft
• 2016 NWSL College Draft
• NWSL Shield

et al... Hmlarson (talk) 00:21, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• • You mean like...
  • MLS SuperDraft
  • MLS Cup Playoffs
  • List of foreign MLS players
  • MLS Best XI
  • etc.?
  • My point here is that "consistency" is relative. I don't know what the people who work with MLS articles generally do, but in my opinion I would prefer we use "National Women's Soccer League __" for any article that's more encyclopedic and "NWSL __" for any article that's more casual parlance, if that makes any sense. Or just mirror how the MLS articles are already split. CyMoahk2 (talk) 03:18, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I can see it both ways. When I google "NWSL attendance" vs "National Women's Soccer League attendance", I don't get the article in the results for the former - how about you? There's something to be said for

WP:COMMONNAME - particularly when the league's own website homepage only lists the full league name in the footer and HTML title. Hmlarson (talk) 03:41, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply

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• Oppose per Steel1943. The proposed new title should be kept as a redirect.
  flyer 10:51, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose. From
  MOS:ACRONYMTITLE. NWSL is not a household name in the same way that NASA or CIA is, and it is therefore preferable to spell it out. The same should apply to the other articles in the list above, in my opinion.  — Amakuru (talk) 12:32, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply
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