Talk:St. Leonard, Quebec

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[edit] Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. 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 proposal was - move.

As per WP:CANSTYLE#Neighbourhoods, this article should be moved to St. Leonard, Quebec. In accordance with the guideline, however, the move is first being raised on the talk page. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 20:47, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Support per naming convention. --Qyd (talk) 21:24, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. 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.
The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. 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 proposal was not moved.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

In any event, you have done a formal WP:RM request for a move to Saint-Léonard, Quebec, but the discussion above pertains to the earlier successful move request of St. Leonard (borough) to St. Leonard, Quebec. Thus, I have moved this discussion to a new section. Skeezix1000 (talk) 12:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment what's wrong with using ENGLISH? 74.15.105.205 (talk) 04:22, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Oppose per Skeezix1000. GreenJoe 12:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Oppose. As per Skeezix1000, Wikipedia's rule is to use the name most commonly used in English, not necessarily the official name. We do err on the side of official usage for many Quebec-related articles, but that's not because official wins on principle — it's because for many Quebec-related topics "common English usage" is ambiguous and not easily determined. For example, we do use Université du Québec à Montréal rather than an English translation, but that's because there are several different ways that the institution may be referred to in English, and thus there's no single standard English name for the thing. Note, however, that we also use National Assembly of Quebec rather than the official French name, because in that case the English usage is clear and unequivocal. Similarly, compare Trois-Rivières ("common English usage" not easily determined) vs. Montreal ("common English usage" quite clearly doesn't have the accent on it, regardless of what's "official".) Please review WP:CANSTYLE. Note that this is all straight out of WP:NC, which explicitly states that the rule is to Name your pages in English and place the native transliteration on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly recognized by readers than the English form. Bearcat (talk) 14:49, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Oppose per CANSTYLE and Bearcat's excellent summary, above. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:52, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
  • I suppose it's not necessary but I'll just pile on another oppose here per Skeezix1000 et al. DoubleBlue (Talk) 21:23, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
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