Talk:Tour of the Basque Country

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved- Note: I haven't moved the other 6 pages suggested, as they have not been formatted as a multi requested move, so no notice has been applied on their talk pages by the RM bot, thus allowing other users of those pages to comment.  Ron h jones (Talk) 00:04, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Vuelta al País Vasco → Tour of the Basque Country — This race's common English name is, well, its English name. 1.3 million ghits for English, 331,000 for Spanish when wikipedia is discounted. We do not have, say, Giro d'Italia, at that title out of any conspicuous preference for local names, we have it there because that is the common name of that race in English. In any case, this race has two local names, and the one not used as an article title, arguably the "local-er," would be even more incomprehensible and impossible to pronounce for an English monolingual than this one is. The American TV network covering this race calls it by the English name; I'm naturally uncertain of English-language coverage in other parts of the world, and would be open to withdrawing this request if such evidence goes against it. Nosleep ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 07:25, 18 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Tour of the Basque Country seems to be the most used phrase in English on Google - I support along with moving:
 * 2005 Vuelta al País Vasco → 2005 Tour of the Basque Country
 * 2006 Vuelta al País Vasco → 2006 Tour of the Basque Country
 * 2007 Vuelta al País Vasco → 2007 Tour of the Basque Country
 * 2008 Vuelta al País Vasco → 2008 Tour of the Basque Country
 * 2009 Vuelta al País Vasco → 2009 Tour of the Basque Country
 * 2010 Vuelta al País Vasco → 2010 Tour of the Basque Country
 * SeveroTC 18:44, 18 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Unlike the Giro, Vuelta and Tour, which normally keep their endonyms in English use, I usually see the name of this tour translated into "Tour of the Basque Country". Knepflerle (talk) 10:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Support all the move's per UCN. Flamarande (talk) 20:56, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
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Requested move 8 April 2019

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The result of the move request was: no consensus.  Calidum   02:19, 1 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Tour of the Basque Country → Itzulia Basque Country
 * 2018 Tour of the Basque Country → 2018 Itzulia Basque Country
 * 2019 Tour of the Basque Country → 2019 Itzulia Basque Country

As far as I understand, the race was officially rebranded as 'Itzulia Basque Country' in 2018. This is also the name registered in the UCI calendar for the current event, as well as last year's race (going back to 2017, the race was registered as 'Vuelta al Pais Vasco).

More importantly perhaps is that the organisers use the same new name in all languages - there isn't any Tour or Vuelta in their press material in English or Spanish. It's also the name used in all language versions of their official website), and on screen graphics in the international broadcasts. Just 'The Itzulia' and 'La Itzulia'. Media seems to be aboard the train as well.

I don't think this is a controversial move, but as there been an earlier discussion on moving the article I put this as a requested move. Kittens n thugs (talk) 17:48, 8 April 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. B dash (talk) 10:48, 18 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment: Certainly the articles for each specific year's race should retain the name of the event as it occurred in that year, per WP:V and the sources about those events which would be using those old event names. Redirects can be created from more recent names to help editors. -- Netoholic @ 20:35, 8 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes. The request only include the articles for the 2018 and 2019 events, not the previous 57 editions. Kittens n thugs (talk) 21:21, 8 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment Lots of cycling sites including Cycling Weekly, Cycling News and Eurosport's coverage, all use Tour of the Basque Country. Is Itzulia Basque Country the WP:COMMONNAME?  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 13:44, 10 April 2019 (UTC)


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