Talk:South Australian Register

Requested move 16 February 2018

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. See nothing in the page history nor move logs that would indicate that this article has had any title other than the present title, which appears to have been stable for more than eleven years. As is usual with a no-consensus outcome, editors may continue to attempt to garner consensus to find the highest and best name for this article. Gentle reminder for future debate is that reliable sources are your friends. Happy Publishing! (closed by page mover)  Paine Ellsworth   put'r there 04:06, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

South Australian Register → – Revert to page name from which a redirect was made in 2013 (the newspaper changed it's name, so the latest one should have greatest weight (as per WP:NAMECHANGES)). Good examples of this are The Chronicle (South Australia), The Observer (Adelaide), Sunday Mail (Adelaide), and The Advertiser (Adelaide) all of which consistently use the final and more common (rather than the first) name of the newspaper. JabberJaw (talk) 03:00, 16 February 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. –Ammarpad (talk) 06:04, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose: The paper was the South Australian Register for most of its history, notably during its years as a fiercely independent paper in the days of George Stevenson the Kyffin Thomases and John Howard Clark, who were making history as well as reporting it. Doug butler (talk) 03:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I can understand a "historical viewpoint" (as with other publications I listed) but this does not address the policy issue (which the banner requests). Also, the current usage in the article shows that "The Register" is used 16 times in the article (plus 8 references) vs. "South Australian Register" 3 times (plus 5 references). Technically, the final name of the publication was Register News-Pictorial, but I have not seen that used as a common name (hence The Register - which is also used by the State Library for the overall publication). JabberJaw (talk) 01:07, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Support per WP:NAMECHANGES, if the final name is more common. feminist (talk) 03:35, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * In terms of background, the article was created conceptually as "The Register" on 19 Nov. 2006 in terms of the newspaper's common name as used since 2006 in the lead and main paragraphs (i.e. entire revision history). Similarly, "Register" is also a common term that is used generically and interchangeably (AFAIK) for most/all manifestations the publication (as per the library eg. cited above), since the word Register exists across all titles. Another usage eg. is here. JabberJaw (talk) 04:43, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.