Talk:Snares Islands

The picture
"The position of The Snares relative to New Zealand". I think a picture that you could actually ID The Snares themselves from the main page (as opposed to having to click the pic, then search really hard for it) would be better. Lunch with Jason 23:43, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Proposed move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:42, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

The Snares → Snares Islands/Tini Heke — This is the full official name of the islands according to the LINZ reference and the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998. There is a convention to use these full names in New Zealand articles, Aoraki/Mount Cook and Stewart Island/Rakiura for example. The Settlement Act says the name was "Snares Islands" prior to the change. This proposal has come from this CfD, trying to match the category name with the article name.


 * Support as nom. XLerate (talk) 02:41, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Support, seems reasonable to me and it seems to follow general NZ naming conventions on WP. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:15, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Support In accordance with New Zealand naming conventions.  Skinsmoke (talk) 20:50, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
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Requested move 3 December 2023

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lightoil (talk) 19:43, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Snares Islands / Tini Heke → Snares Islands – Per WP:COMMONNAME, WP:CONCISE, and MOS:SLASH. The proposed title is the clear COMMONNAME; a Google News search shows dozens of relevant results for it, compared to just six for any form of the dual name. Similarly, a Google Scholar search shows hundreds of results for the proposed name, compared to 43 for any form of the dual name. Ngrams also support the proposed title, with use of any form of the dual name too low to register while registering use of the single name. Note that most Google News results for the dual name prefer the proposed title; they typically use the dual name just once in their article, and use the proposed title on every other mention. Tini Heke, as an alternative possibility, received almost no use and is not an alternative common name candidate. BilledMammal (talk) 10:20, 3 December 2023 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support as written. I also checked for scholarly results published after 2019—an arbitrary choice just to see if there was a trend in more recent history—and it looks like the dual name is slightly better represented, but still shows ~20 results vs ~200. — HTGS (talk) 00:31, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:59, 5 December 2023 (UTC)