Talk:World Ballroom Dance Champions

Change of name
The organization controlling the world championships has again changed its name. It is now the World Dance Council (WDC), and so the title of this and other articles must be changed also. Their website says:
 * "The WDC is the world authority for professional Dance and Dance Sport incorporating the World Dance Sport Committee and the World Social Dance Committee.
 * "The World Dance Council Ltd, until 1st June 2006 known as the World Dance & Dance Sport Council Ltd (WD&DSC), fomerly the International Council of Ballroom Dancing (ICBD), was established on 22nd September 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland."

I am going to suggest that, for the sake of simplicity, we call this article World Professional Ballroom Champions, with the present fuller description in the lead para. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:13, 27 August 2009 (UTC)


 * later: omit 'Professional' so we can later add Amateurs without creating separate articles. Note also the use of 'Ballroom' instead of Standard or Modern derives from the WDC, not any personal preference. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:30, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was move. Jafeluv (talk) 12:22, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Dancesport World Champions (Professional Standard) → World Ballroom Dance Champions — First, the name of the supervising authority has changed (explained in intro); second, by leaving out 'Professional' allows Amateur champions to be listed also; third, new titles are simpler. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:27, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Dancesport World Champions (Professional Latin) → World Latin Dance Champions
 * DanceSport World Champions (Ten Dance) → World 10 Dance Champions
 * Conditional Support — Just, please be sure to add at least one third party reference which uses the "new" name to these articles. — V = I * R  (talk to Ω) 12:52, 29 August 2009 (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. No further edits should be made to this section.

Anthony Hurley
World dancing champion 2A00:23C6:A106:8201:499B:D308:FCD1:8064 (talk) 14:31, 12 July 2023 (UTC)