Talk:Methodist Boys' School, Penang

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Requested move 2 May 2017 edit

Latest comment: 6 years ago7 comments7 people in discussion

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The result of the move request was: Page Moved (non-admin closure) - Yashovardhan (talk) 16:20, 21 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Methodist Boys' School (Penang) → Methodist Boys' School, Penang – WP:PRECISE. Alexander Iskandar (talk) 08:11, 2 May 2017 (UTC) --Relisting. Anarchyte (work | talk) 07:20, 10 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

I don't understand how WP:PRECISE comes into play here. Station1 (talk) 17:54, 2 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Support: The naming conventions for Wikipedia articles of other similar Methodist schools in Malaysia and Singapore follow this format: school name, city. Look at Methodist Boys' School, Kuala Lumpur, Methodist Girls' School, Singapore and Methodist Girls' School, Ipoh. Similarly, this page should be named Methodist Boys' School, Penang. Vnonymous 00:29, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Oppose This is a school, and the name of the school is "Methodist Boys' School", not "Methodist Boys' School, Penang". The parenthetical disambiguation clarifies that. Furthermore WP:NCDAB recommends using comma-separated for ambiguous geographic names. However, a school is not a geographic name, it's an institution, so comma-separated disambiguation would be incorrect in this situation. -- Tavix ^(talk) 16:46, 9 May 2017 (UTC)Reply
Support for consistency per Vnonymous. However, perhaps the other articles should be moved to this form in a larger RM. Laurdecl ^talk 09:41, 10 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Support It's less cluttered-looking, and it reflects convention.—A L T E R C A R I ✍ 07:36, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Note that the school seal reads "MBSP". — AjaxSmack 21:50, 15 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

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