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The link for help is https://lant.nt.gov.au/, not as in the template above. Johnragla (talk) 07:47, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 5 January 2024

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: this river is not moved to Howard River at this time, per the discussion below, but as noted in the discussion, consistency points to moving this to Howard River (Northern Territory) for now. In addition, in conjunction with the recent discussion at Talk:Hinemoatū / Howard River#Requested move 25 November 2023 and the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard River (disambiguation), consensus points to moving the disambiguation page to the plain title. If reestablishing a primary redirect is deemed necessary, please initiate a new move request for the disambiguation page. Dekimasuよ! 04:42, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Howard River, Northern TerritoryHoward RiverWP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the name Howard River, when compared to use of the old name for Hinemoatū / Howard River in New Zealand. Looking at relevant results for both rivers in news and academic sources for the last decade, we find the results overwhelmingly in favour of the Australian river:

News:

  • Australia: 19
  • New Zealand: 2

Academic sources:

  • Australia: 72
  • New Zealand: 5

I'd note that there were about 10-15 results which were various false positives (eg. a person named Howard, or mistaken references to Howard Creek in Canada as "Howard River"), and there were about five academic results which I could not access enough of to determine which river it was talking about. Despite this, I think these results clearly demonstrate that the river in Northern Territory is unambiguously the primary topic for the name. Page views do not show a clear preference, but this is likely due to the recency of this page and a recent (now closed) move request on Hinemoatū / Howard River and the overall numbers low on both at this stage. Turnagra (talk) 04:31, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Australia has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 09:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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.