Talk:Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton

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On 7 November 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton to Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton. The result of the discussion was moved.

Requested move 7 November 2023[edit]

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: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Reading Beans (talk) 20:10, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Municipality of Bifrost – Riverton → Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton – I'm unable to ascertain a reason for the bizarre spelling with the en dash. All sources I've been able to identify are using the spelling Bifrost-Riverton. I wouldn't object to use of the unspaced en dash if this is what Wikipedia policy demands, but the spaces are perverse and probably wrong. This, that and the other (talk) 08:38, 7 November 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. Jenks24 (talk) 11:58, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 05:53, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Nom says "all sources…" yet doesn’t look at the very first reference on the article. Section 2 of the regulation that created the municipality states "On January 1, 2015, the Rural Municipality of Bifrost and the Village of Riverton are amalgamated to establish the Municipality of Bifrost – Riverton." Accordingly, just redirect other configurations used erroneously to this title. If still WP:IDLI, then lobby the municipality and the provincial government to change the name to match Wikipedian preferences, conventions, policies, or whatever. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 08:02, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That source was a dead link for me when I tried it yesterday, but is working now. It's in a two-column bilingual format and its own French version uses "Bifrost-Riverton". The other three sources cited in the article and also the two external links at the bottom all use "Bifrost-Riverton". Whatever someone was thinking when they wrote the left column, we wouldn't necessarily look to some kind of "official" external sources for matters of punctuation/styling on Wikipedia anyway. Wikipedia has its own WP:MoS, which says to look for ordinary English formatting and the plurality of independent reliable sources. As far as I can tell, the spaced en dash makes no grammatical sense here and the nom's characterization of it as "bizarre" is apt. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 16:26, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There are a number of other articles which use a similar "space - en dash - space" format at Category:Manitoba municipal amalgamations, 2015. 162 etc. (talk) 17:42, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. — Amakuru (talk) 15:12, 22 November 2023 (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.