Category talk:2011 Sendai earthquake

Latest comment: 12 years ago by Closeapple in topic Rename

Rename edit

En Wikipedia has moved their articles to "2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami". We may want to move this to match. Rmhermen (talk) 19:44, 17 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

  • Temporarily Oppose for the next week or so, then reconsider. The name on en.wiki seems to remain uncertain; there has already been one successful move nomination and one unsuccessful move nomination on en:Talk:2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. We may want to wait a week or so, for the name to settle. (For example: I am in the U.S. and had not heard the name "Tōhoku" even once until this Wikipedia discussion. The U.S. media uses "Japanese" or "Sendai". I would never think to look for "Tōhoku". But maybe other English-speaking countries are using "Tōhoku" and not "Sendai".) Right now there should be category redirects from other common names to whatever category name is in use, though. --Closeapple (talk) 22:30, 17 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

This rename is being discussed again now at Commons:Categories for discussion/2011/04/Category:2011 Sendai earthquake damage. --Closeapple (talk) 03:06, 26 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

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