Talk:Nottingham Arena

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This article was nominated for merging with National Ice Centre on 3 Feb 2014. The result of the discussion was Merge to National Ice Centre#Arena.

Disruptive IP Deletions of Referenced Material[edit]

Unfortunately an IP user has been repeatedly deleting large areas of the article, usually surrounding the names. There are large amounds of time between incidents so there have not been 3RR violations, but there appears to be sock puppetry.

At a quick glance, this IP user has deleted things 8 times, starting October last year; with one other deletion of similar material made by a User:Onepoint21GigaWatts. This user has made no other edits, so it strongly points to him being a sock of the IP user.

Of course repetitive deletions of referenced material and the use of sock puppets are highly disruptive - some would go as far as to call it vandalism.

I have reported the vandalism and sock puppetry, and requested protection for the article to guard against attacks while that trickles through. --Rushton2010 (talk) 22:44, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

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No discussion in over a week: Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit - Rushton2010 (talk) 22:01, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I propose that Capital FM Arena Nottingham be merged into National Ice Centre.

I have been recently working on trying extend both of these articles and it is becoming increasingly clear that they near totally overlap: as a result both articles repeat themselves and in many areas are word for word carbon copies.
The arena is obviously part of the National Ice Centre, and so both article's history sections are identical. Even the more "recent" information such as visitor numbers, and profits from the 2012/13 annual review, obviously deal with the centre as a whole; and so again appear on both articles.
As both articles are small, mainly local interest articles (gaining an average of only 30-50 hits a day) and never destined to be very long articles anyway, I think it would be best placed to merge them into one comprehensive article. Given the sheer amount of overlap, there isn't actually a great deal of content to transfer over (uncited detail about fasted selling shows appears among the only bits not to already be in the main NIC article). - Rushton2010 (talk) 14:06, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 12 October 2023[edit]

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: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerium (talk) 22:39, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Motorpoint Arena Nottingham → Nottingham Arena – The unsponsored original name of the venue is the least confusing when dealing with ever-changing corporation sponsorship venues that are seemingly being named after.

Nottingham Arena provides consistency throughout the encyclopedia and provides consistency to avoid using the advertising name of a building where possible as this is confusing and can cause endless ambiguity when one company sponsors multiple venues worldwide.

Other buildings in England are not usually known by the naming rights holder name and are known by the unsponsored name, such as Wembley Arena, Liverpool Arena, Newcastle Arena, etc.

Finally, Wikipedia is not an advert for the naming rights holder at any particular moment. The sponsored name should only be used where there is genuinely no unsponsored name which can be reasonably used, such as the home of Bolton Wanderers F.C or most Indy Car races, etc. PicturePerfect666 (talk) 21:18, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support move per nom. It seems unlikely that this and the Leeds case will end separately. O.N.R. ^(talk) 01:38, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support move per WP:COMMONNAME. Revolving door of renames due to "naming rights" sales is already a trainwreck for some venues and will only become worse for all participating. Locations where naming rights have changed several times have clear specific common names for venues. - Darker Dreams (talk) 06:36, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. We usually try to avoid sponsorship names. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:36, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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