Talk:Alternative information centre

Proposed move
See the naming conventions (especially "use common names"). |Alternative information center gets three times as many Google hits as "Alternative information centre. If you put it in quotations the different is even more dramatic: 617 hits for one and 27,100 for the other. This isn’t a "British/American" issue as much as it is a common-usage issue. --Neutralitytalk 15:24, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)


 * Oppose - This is a British vs. American spelling issue. Your Google results are "tainted" by a number of Alternative Information Center (proper name) results.  This article references establishments in England, so it is appropriate to keep the British spellings. -- Netoholic @ 15:27, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)
 * (oppose) -- Philip Baird Shearer 16:07, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose - The fact that the article was initially written with the British spelling should be enough to prevent Americanizing it. Add on the fact that it appears to deal with a largely British phenomenon and it becomes a no-brainer. --Aranae 16:58, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose for reasons noted above by others. violet/riga (t) 19:51, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose Seems to fail the domain test (British scope), the most common use test, and the first major contribution test, all at once.  (I know it's not a 'major article' at all, but it's not as if someone's doing a clearly-relatively-major expansion and changing the language convention in the process;  this is just changing that, and nothing else.)  Alai 03:53, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Strongly Oppose. In fact, I would go so far as to accuse Neutrality of arbitrarily changing grammar and spelling (systemically and in mass quantities) in reckless disrespect for previous editors. Wereon 20:30, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose We don't normally change article titles or copy to a different regional English spelling.  But if a UK-based subject was titled in U.S. English, then I would vote to change it.  &mdash;Michael Z. 2005-03-8 17:41 Z 

Decision after 5 days: retain current title. violet/riga (t) 20:53, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)