Talk:2012 Bermudian general election

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Requested move[edit]

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The result of the move request was: pages moved to "Bermudian". DrKiernan (talk) 22:10, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

– Bermudian is the more commonly used term in Bermuda itself, and the Bermuda article uses Bermudian in all but one case Relisted. BDD (talk) 17:39, 5 March 2013 (UTC) Naraht (talk) 22:21, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I would prefer Bermuda general election of 2012. Apteva (talk) 03:45, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- At this point the standard seems to be for Adjective form. See French presidential election, 2007, Canadian federal election, 2008 and Mexican general election, 2006.Naraht (talk) 15:48, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - An exception is United States election. Bermudan, Burmudian do not seem to be very commonly used. Apteva (talk) 22:56, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    - Well, the standard Adjectival form for the United States is "American" which leads to issues in some contexts.Naraht (talk) 17:38, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      - "United Kingdom general election", etc., is also standard. DrKiernan (talk) 20:38, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Rename alll to "Bermudian..." per WP:ENGVAR and Bermudian English. Timrollpickering (talk) 15:57, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the proposed election moves: "Bermuda general election" is more common than "Bermudian general election" by a factor of 50 in google searches. Article titles should be the most recognisable name for a topic (per common name). I see no reason why two of the templates can not be moved to "Template:Elections in Bermuda" and "Template:Political parties of Bermuda" if necessary, but again the less familiar form should not be used. DrKiernan (talk) 20:38, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- So you would propose a change from Bermudan to Bermuda rather than a change to Bermudian?Naraht (talk) 20:46, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - I would prefer that, yes. DrKiernan (talk) 21:08, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support. If Bermudans (as I, a Canadian, would call them) use "Bermudian", then I think that's what we ought to go with. I would oppose a move to "Bermuda general election", which sounds as awkward to me as "France general election". The cases of the US and the UK are special ones, because both "American" and "British" have ambiguity issues. Srnec (talk) 21:53, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Agree compltely with Srnec. Jenks24 (talk) 07:13, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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.