Talk:Little Rock Trojans

Requested move 1 July 2015

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The result of the move request was: Not Moved Mike Cline (talk) 10:17, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

– Today, UALR announced that their sports teams would be known as the "Little Rock Trojans." However, one person is reverting all the changes I'm making because it's not yet the WP:COMMONNAME he says (never mind that, per branding guidelines, all media outlets will be required to refer to them as "Little Rock" in news, scores and other media). So, I figured we should get this discussion going so that we can get an official consensus. --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 19:06, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Tom Danson (talk) 19:05, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans → Little Rock Trojans
 * Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans men's basketball → Little Rock Trojans men's basketball
 * Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans baseball → Little Rock Trojans baseball
 * Support per nominator. It's common sense here. Corkythe   hornetfan  19:07, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Per WP:COMMONNAME. Until reliable sources like the national media (Associated Press, ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, Yahoo! Sports, etc.) adopt the Little Rock branding as the common name for the university's athletic teams, I believe Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans should remain the common name used on Wikipedia. Treydavis3 (talk) 19:17, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Neutral, leaning towards Support Ordinarily, I would agree with Treydavis3. But, this is such a low-profile progam, that I'm not sure that there ever was a real clear WP:COMMONNAME here in the first place. Ejgreen77 (talk) 02:20, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Schools rebrand a lot, and it's by no means a given the media make that rebranding common parlance. We should wait until such a time as they adopt the new name. Kithira (talk) 14:22, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose for now - 1) This generally isn't done, immediately, 2) There are identical cases where the university's desired rebranding didn't stick, 3) Without strong consensus, this will be revisited for years. WKU vs. Western Kentucky, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Archive 12, UTSA/Texas-San Antonio, Talk:SIU Edwardsville Cougars, multiple LA schools including Talk:Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns, etc. UW Dawgs (talk) 01:33, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose until the media actually accepts this re-branding as the school's athletic commonname. Rikster2 (talk) 01:47, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Per this article and the upcoming article that will be published on a Sports News site (I am a credentialed Sports Media member, covering the Sun Belt Conference). BearlyDoug (talk) 01:59, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. That's a press release and WP:CRYSTAL. UW Dawgs (talk) 02:48, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. Was "Arkansas-Little Rock" the common name to begin with? I heard more folk calling it "UALR" than anything else before the announcement. Tom Danson (talk) 09:12, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Traditionally Wikipedians have dropped the "university of" from "University of..." articles, such as University of Kansas Jayhawks/Kansas Jayhawks or Ohio State University Buckeyes are Ohio State Buckeyes. It stands to reason that "University of Arkansas-Little Rock" is shortened to Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans.  Therefore, I oppose moving the article.--Paul McDonald (talk) 20:55, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It is not the WP:COMMONNAME yet. Jrcla2 (talk) 13:30, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Agree with the WP:COMMONNAME comments. I can't find any major independent sources, ESPN, CBS, Yahoo!, etc. that have picked up the name change. I say this move should be tabled for two months and bring it up again when all of the season preview articles and mags are released. Even if they aren't usually covered in detail by the major outlets, many at least release a 1-350 ranking of the sport in September or October. If they're all calling the team "Little Rock" by then, it can be changed at that time. Given that this is only an athletics rebranding and not a university change, it's not yet certain that the common name will change. SCMatt33 (talk) 22:11, 9 July 2015 (UTC)


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Revisiting the move
So, it's now March, the Trojans are in the NCAA Tournament, and more and more sources are referring to them as "Little Rock" (including CBS Sports). Around when should we reconsider and give the move to "Little Rock" another look? Tom Danson (talk) 18:51, 13 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I glanced at the CBK labels on the larger sports sites, and then the headlines therein. Page headers are mixed:
 * Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans


 * http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2031/arkansas-little-rock-trojans
 * http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaab/arkansas-little-rock/


 * Little Rock Trojans


 * http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/teams/aat/
 * http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/teams/page/ARKLR/little-rock-trojans
 * http://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/little-rock-trojans-team


 * The article headlines on these CBK team pages use "Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans" more than half of the time, and 100% in AP stories. You're welcome to reopen the discussion, but I don't see clear adoption. UW Dawgs (talk) 20:14, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 26 August 2016

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The result of the move request was: Moved. Despite rather obvious consensus, this waited in the backlog so long because of rather big recategorization and renaming job, which I'm about to tackle. No such user (talk) 08:46, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

– When the switch was announced on July 1, 2015, I did a previous rename request, but it was declined because "Little Rock Trojans" was not yet the WP:COMMONNAME. However, with the passage of time and the basketball program gaining a higher profile, more and more news sources have recognized them as the Little Rock Trojans (e.g., Yahoo! Sports, CBS Sports, Fox Sports and NBC Sports). For some reason, ESPN, USA Today and AP still list them as "Arkansas-Little Rock," but they are a minority compared to the majority of sources I've listed. As such, I believe that "Little Rock Trojans" is now the common name, and the move should be effective. Tom Danson (talk) 00:06, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans → Little Rock Trojans
 * Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans men's basketball → Little Rock Trojans men's basketball
 * Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans baseball → Little Rock Trojans baseball
 * Comment Agree there has been directional movement as noted in March (above). Should also review editorial stories (AP, local, season preview/rankings, etc) rather than major media's DB-driven pages alone. UW Dawgs (talk) 00:15, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment Scope should be presumed as all pages and all cat names, see Category:Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans. UW Dawgs (talk) 00:19, 26 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Support – I'm in favor of the name change (all articles and cats), as I've been since July 2015. If you want to rely on a "quick" Google search, Arkansas–Little Rock is considered the common name, not Little Rock. The AP still calls them A-LR, as well as a local newspaper The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Of the two local newspapers, the Arkansas Times is the only local newspaper that has begun using Little Rock. Local TV Stations – KATV and KLRT-TV – are using "Little Rock" (KATV, KLRT-TV). Corkythe hornetfan  (ping me) 00:54, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Wait, if you support the move, why did you give evidence that opposes the move? Am I reading this wrong? Lizard  (talk) 17:46, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It was more for UW Dawgs' statement: "Should also review editorial stories (AP, local, season preview/rankings, etc) rather than major media's..." I was basically showing what the locals and AP calls it. I was just going off of the number of hits for Google search, but I didn't read any of the articles (which could use the new branding in the actual article). I believe that if the major news sources call a sports team by their branding, then we should go with that. Does that clarify things? Corkythe hornetfan  (ping me) 19:17, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 👍 Lizard  (talk) 19:20, 29 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Oppose - for now, but relist, soon. Seeing a low volume of sources in both directions, but little national coverage since they don't play football as a major fall sport.  Would like to revisit when all media outlets are generating reasonable coverage (ie, basketball season, which explicitly isn't the lone criteria, but allow review of all media outlets and their annual updates to hex colors, db strings, editorial guidelines, etc). I don't think there is enough non-local coverage to evaluate, right now. UW Dawgs (talk) 20:43, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Mild support – The NCAA now uses "Little Rock" instead of "Arkansas–Little Rock" or "UALR". See the NCAA's official school page for UALR athletics; although the URL includes "ualr", the page is prominently titled "Little Rock". — Dale Arnett (talk) 04:54, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Support. A quick Google News search shows that sources are increasingly using the new name, and it appears to now be somewhat more common.( vs. ).--Cúchullain t/ c 16:12, 8 September 2016 (UTC)


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