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November 15, 2026

November 14, 2026

  • (Discuss) – Otávio Filho → Otávio Rodrigues de Miranda Filho – The current title is not a name the subject was known by. In Portuguese naming, "Filho" is a generational suffix (equivalent to "Jr."), not a surname, so "Otávio Filho" is like titling an article "John Jr.". Reliable sources use the full name: the United Nations appointment and biography ("Lieutenant General Otávio Rodrigues De Miranda Filho"), the UN statement on his death, and Brazil's official gazette; the German Wikipedia article, the Wikidata item and the Commons category also use it. In Brazil he was commonly called "General Miranda Filho" or "Otávio Miranda Filho" (g1, Metrópoles, Rádio Itatiaia); those can be redirects. Per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:NCP. Ocm0770 (talk) 11:56, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – List of white power bands → List of white power music acts – There are several solo artists in this list, including Johnny Rebel and Frank Rennicke, so I'm not sure the word "bands" fully/accurately encompasses everything included on this list (unless I'm misunderstanding and, for the purpose of article-naming, the word "bands" can include solo artists as well). Another naming idea might be something like List of white power music artists (although I also feel the word "artist" doesn't really capture both bands and solo artists as well as "music acts" does). Per Wikipedia's naming conventions for bands, albums, and songs, "band" is specifically referred to as a music ensemble, as is "group". Words for individuals are "singer", "musician", "rapper", "songwriter", etc., but a band seems to explicitly be an ensemble that, at some point, consisted of more than 1 person. Couldn't find much else about naming conventions for musical list articles like these, so I'm curious to know others' thoughts on this (or to be corrected if I'm totally wrong). Afddiary (talk) 15:54, 6 November 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. InfernoHues (talk) 06:27, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Enrique Hernández (baseball) → Kiké Hernandez – WP:COMMONNAME, per sources such as this. Support in the first RM was kneecapped by spurious and unsubstantiated arguments that his name might be misconstrued for a slur and nitpicking over Spanish orthography (never mind that the letter K does not occur naturally in Spanish to begin with). I could not find any reason to believe that spelling his name "Kiké" would be misconstrued for a slur, especially when most sources already call him Kiké and not Enrique. The second RM was unrelated to the Kiké/Enrique split and merely wanted the (baseball) disambiguator removed, which failed to achieve consensus. Every source I found calls him "Kiké" with the accent mark over the E, and even outside of Spanish, the é is understood be an accent mark indicating emphasis in words such as "Pokémon" or "résumé". Nearly every source I could find about him online calls him "Kiké", so why isn't his article already there? This is a clear-cut WP:COMMONNAME to me. Ten Pound Hammer (they/them) • (What did I screw up now?) 20:44, 6 November 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. InfernoHues (talk) 06:21, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Battle of Sincouwaan → Battle of Xicaowan – Please see the Location section of the present article. Historical sources consistently call the place of the battle "Xicaowan" 西草灣, but later researchers working with limited sources came up with alternative suggestions. One such suggestion was by a Hong Kong scholar in the 80s who believed Xicaowan should be the similarly named 茜草灣 in Hong Kong (which would make its English name Sai Tso Wan), but since 茜 is more commonly pronounced "Sin" in Cantonese, a well-meaning Wikipedian Ktsquare (talk · contribs) looked up a Cantonese dictionary and moved the page to its current name in 2022. This is unfortunately OR as Sincouwaan is a uncommon romanization of 茜草灣 not found in RSes before 2022. In any case, recent research support the original Xicaowan reading, and I do not believe Wikipedia should back the POV that the battle must have happened in Hong Kong waters to justify the Cantonese reading. _dk (talk) 04:25, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Halizah → Chalitzah – The Hebrew character צ (tsade) is not transliterated as a ⟨z⟩ elsewhere in Wikipedia, where that letter is instead relegated for ז (zayin). I am not a native speaker of Hebrew, but given transliterations such as mechitza, mitzvah, and tzadik, as well as spellings like chazal and challah, I think it would be more consistent with Wikipedia's existing conventions to rename the article. The treatment of het and kamatz malei (?) may be up for debate, but the transliteration of tsade is my primary concern. WannzKaswan (talk) 02:45, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 13, 2026

  • (Discuss) – Labor Day (United States) → Labor Day – The last move request was badly flawed and had few participants. Labor Day is used almost exclusively by the United States and needs no disambiguation such as (United States). The other similar term "Labour Day" is not the same holiday. It has a different history, a different date, and a different spelling. Plus the article's wikiprojects of Holidays, United States, and Organized Labour, were not informed, so the move was the result of a small group of editors. The original closing editor did the best they could with the small the group, but failed when the primary topic of the United States federal holiday, Labor Day, was left in the dust. We asked to reopen but the closer refused. Then, to top it all off, when they moved Labor Day to Labor Day (United States) with a redirect, they then arbitrarily (there was no consensus) changed the redirect of Labor Day to Labour Day. There is now no good way to find Labor Day (United States) without jumping through hoops! This move need to be reverted from Labor Day (United States) > Labor Day. Labor Day and Labour Day are NOT the same holiday. And if for any reason it fails then "Labor Day" redirect must redirect to Labor Day (United States). Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:04, 13 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Arya Group Of Colleges → Arya College – Until May 2025 this article was titled "Arya College" and used that name throughout. On 22–23 May 2025 it was moved without discussion, and the same edits replaced "Arya College" with "Arya Main Campus" about 25 times, including inside the titles of cited sources, which no longer match what those sources published (listed in the section below). Several of the cited sources call the institution "Arya College" (OrissaPOST, BW Businessworld, ANI), no other English Wikipedia article uses this title, and Arya College already redirects here. Absp42 (talk) 14:36, 13 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Sheheryar Munawar Siddiqui → Sheheryar Munawar – I propose moving this article from Sheheryar Munawar Siddiqui to Sheheryar Munawar per WP:COMMONNAME, WP:CONCISE, and WP:AT. The proposed title appears to be the subject's commonly used professional name in reliable English-language coverage. For example, Dawn published an extensive interview with him on 10 May 2026 under the name "Sheheryar Munawar" (source). Dawn Images also used the shorter name in its 18 July 2026 coverage of his television project Dar-e-Nijaat (source). The article's existing infobox also identifies him as "Sheheryar Munawar", although this is supplementary context rather than independent evidence. The full name "Sheheryar Munawar Siddiqui" can remain in the article where reliably sourced, but the shorter title appears more consistent with his common identification in contemporary coverage. I welcome further evidence from reliable sources, particularly regarding his on-screen professional credits. BlazerStar10 (talk) 09:09, 13 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Disulfide (biochemistry) → Disulfide bridge – Background: this page got split off from disulfide, and now has a visibility problem. "Disulfide bond" and "disulfide bridge" seem to be the common wording in biology, and both seem ok. "Disulfide bond" seems slightly more common, but it appears to sometimes be used to refer to the non-biology chemistry bonds. On the other hand, if I do a google scholar search for "Disulfide bridge" protein I get exactly the same number of hits as if I search for just "Disulfide bridge", so I don't think it's used outside of a biology context. It would be nice to hear what others think though Edit* Related context, it looks like a lot of the content from this page originates from disulfide bond, which got merged into disulfide in 2015. Pabnau (talk) 05:43, 13 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 12, 2026

  • (Discuss) – Via Rail → VIA Rail – I propose changing the article title from "Via Rail" to "VIA Rail". The corporation's official name is VIA Rail Canada Inc., and the Government of Canada consistently uses "VIA Rail" in its official documents. Independent Canadian news organizations also use "VIA Rail". The previous discussion cited one CBC article as evidence for "Via Rail", but this does not establish that a substantial majority of reliable sources prefer that capitalization. I believe the established official spelling deserves reconsideration under MOS:TM. Reid6418 (talk) 23:53, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Versailles (disambiguation) → Versailles – The city of Versailles, Yvelines is an internationally renowned historical place, with a particularly important role in French history as the former seat of the French monarchy and the site of several pivotal events. The palace, on the other hand, is properly known as the Palace of Versailles, rather than simply Versailles. The palace is more famous, but it is not uniquely known as "Versailles." Unlike the palace, the city is consistently and unambiguously identified by the name "Versailles" itself. Given the city's considerable historical significance and the importance of the other subjects bearing this name, there is no clear primary topic, making a disambiguation page at Versailles more appropriate. ~2026-59940-31 (talk) 22:34, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 11, 2026

  • (Discuss) – Bahram → Bahram (disambiguation) – I propose moving Verethragna to Bahram, with the existing disambiguation page moved to Bahram (disambiguation). Bahram is the established Persian name of the Zoroastrian divinity of victory, while Verethragna is its older Avestan form. The name Bahram is also used in academic scholarship, notably in Encyclopaedia Iranica, which titles its treatment "Bahrām (Vərəθraγna)". I believe the divinity qualifies as the primary topic under WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. The divinity is the historical source of the Persian personal name Bahram, and the name has remained culturally significant through its religious, astronomical, and personal uses. The divinity also has the highest individual English Wikipedia pageview total among the principal competing topics of the same name. The existing disambiguation page can be preserved at Bahram (disambiguation), while Verethragna would remain a redirect to Bahram. Wikibashi (talk) 10:22, 4 November 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. InfernoHues (talk) 20:01, 11 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Nuseirat rescue and massacre → Nuseirat hostage raid – Per WP:NCENPOV. Very few reliable sources have described this in their own voice as a massacre, whereas I think all sources (including those which also use massacre) have described it variously as a raid or an operation (see previous talk page section). I do not think there is a single WP:COMMONNAME for this event, but per the instructions at NCENPOV of what to do in the absence of a common name, we should use a generally accepted term. In the absence of a generally accepted term we should use a descriptive term without POV implications. The current title does not comply with this. Samuelshraga (talk) 12:18, 4 November 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. InfernoHues (talk) 19:59, 11 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Kohvik Moon → Restoran Moon – The restaurant's current official name is Restoran Moon, as reflected on its official website and in recent independent sources. The article has been updated to reflect the restaurant's current name and its relocation in 2025. The former title, Kohvik Moon, should remain as a redirect. Greibike (talk) 13:34, 11 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Land of Hope (film) → Age of Reason (film) – Age of Reason is the film's official English title, used by its international distributor Eurochannel and on its US streaming releases. Sources (plain text): Eurochannel: eurochannel.com/en/Age-of-Reason-Markku-Polonen-Finland.html; Prime Video: amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0BLXFN44H; IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt7220640/. Land of Hope can be kept as a redirect and mentioned in the article. Disclosure: I work for Eurochannel, the distributor, so I am requesting this move rather than making it myself. FanSériesTV (talk) 23:56, 1 November 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. InfernoHues (talk) 07:04, 11 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Wooden Boy Island → Dalain Modon Khüis – There is only one source cited in this article for the name "Wooden Boy Island": Google Maps on 2019-05-24. When accessed on 2026-11-11, Google Maps shows the name of the island in English as "Dalain Modon Khuis Island". [6] This is a transliteration of the Mongolian name for the island, which translates to "forest navel in the sea," which leads me to believe that "Wooden Boy Island" was a mistranslation which later came to be treated as fact due to its presence on Google Maps and Wikipedia. This is further corroborated by the complete lack of searches for "Wooden Boy Island" prior to 2022, 3 years after this article was created.[7] However, there are insufficient English-language sources on the island at all, so the native name should be used as per WP:TRANSLITERATE. The native name in Mongolian is "Далайн Модон Хүйс Арал" (with 'Арал' meaning island). As per standard Mongolian Cyrillic transliteration, the island's native name is transliterated as "Dalain Modon Khüis"[8]. FactCheck105 (talk) 04:18, 11 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Bally Astrocade → Astrocade – This article name has been bugging me for quite a while now. Mostly the console was never called the "Bally Astrocade" at any point in its lifespan. Not in the, "it's technically not the Sony PlayStation" kind of way, in the "Bally had nothing to do with it by the time it started being called the Astrocade" kind of way. The name history is explained currently in the article but the short version is Bally called it the "Bally Professional Arcade", they sold it to a company called Astrovision who called it the "Astrovision Professional Arcade" and then that company renamed itself to Astrocade as seen in this catalog. By that point, the console was shortened to just Astrocade by basically everyone. (see the contemporary sources in the suggested refs) There are sources later that start calling it the "Bally Astrocade". These are mostly posthumous sources without a ton of actual background and almost nothing of substance to say. Anyone who's put a ton of actual research into the system usually just calls it by its original name. (Retrogamer #244, Atari Archive) In my opinion, Astrocade would be the best name in accordance with WP:NAMECHANGES. Currently, there is no conflict with using the Astrocade name, which is just a redirect here. It looks like there's a very recent AI company that uses the name Astrocade that might be notable enough for its own article, but it doesn't have one currently and I'm not gonna hold my breath. There is also precedent for removing the manufacturers name in cases like Master System or Dreamcast. It would also support Bally Professional Arcade in accordance with contemporary sources if its not worth conflict with an as of yet nonexistent article. But I think the current name, which is just the two manufacturer's names mashed together, only sows confusion. Whipmywillows (talk) 02:25, 11 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 10, 2026

  • (Discuss) – Xiaohongshu → RedNote – The article currently notes that Xiaohongshu is “known in English as RedNote.” My read is that it’d be appropriate for the company’s English Wikipedia article to be titled RedNote while its Chinese-language Wikipedia article title is the appropriate place for using the name 小红书(Xiaohongshu), which it already does. Major business and international media publications also regularly use the name RedNote now, including the Financial Times , NPR , The New York Times , Reuters , NBC News , CNBC , and The Wall Street Journal . Zxm92 (talk) 23:09, 10 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Template:Too many photos → Template:Too many images – Speedy deletion to make way for move was declined, so opening an RM instead: not all images are photos, see also Template:Cleanup images etc. The user argued that the template literally uses the word photos, which I do not seem to be seeing. 1234qwer1234qwer4 22:16, 10 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – SA de Transport Aérien → SATA (Swiss airline) – As per WP:COMMONNAME, this airline was mostly known simply as SATA. In its first two years its Convair CV-640s displayed "S.A. de Transport Aerien" accompanied by a small "SATA", but this changed in later years so that the remaining Convairs, and the Caravelles featured SATA most prominently, with "S.A. de Transport Aerien Geneve" in a smaller font. Meanwhile the later DC-8s simply displayed "SATA" and nothing else!
    But primarily it is because the majority of aviation publications specified "SATA"; for example Flight International, JP Airline Fleets, World Airline Fleets by Günter Endres, Civil Aircraft Markings by J.W.R.Taylor (note Taylor uses SATA, SAS & KLM, but writes Trans World & Japan Airlines in full) The only reason I do not propose SATA (without qualification) is because SATA currently links to Serial ATA disk drives, presumably as a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC WendlingCrusader (talk) 19:45, 10 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 9, 2026

  • (Discuss) – Vesta (mythology) → Vesta (goddess) – The "mythology" dab is unsuited to this article because Vesta notably has no surviving mythology of her own. If anything, that makes this dab misleading. But a previous motion to remove the dab entirely concluded that some sort of disambiguator is supposed to be kept on the article (see above). Vesta received only minimal mentions in a handful of myths, which do not supply enough content to write an article on. Vesta's notability instead lies in her status as a goddess, around which major Roman observances and institutions were organized. Disambiguating this page with "goddess" would therefore be preferable. For precedence of the "goddess" dab's usage, see the article titles of other Roman goddesses that lack mythology, such as Bellona (goddess) and Luna (goddess). For precedence of moving an article from the "mythology" dab to "god," see the discussion at Jupiter (god). — Uiscefada (talk) 22:39, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Elder (administrative title) → Elder (role) – The disambiguator "administrative title" appears strangely modern and bureaucratic, and would not be intuitive for those readers looking for this article, whose topic generally relates to traditional forms of authority and community. The responsibilities of those in the role of an elder, like providing counsel and conserving communal knowledge, aren't well characterised as "administrative".
    Role defines "role" as "a set of connected behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation" which sounds exactly like what an "elder" is as described in this article. Behaviours like counselling and demonstrating leadership, rights associated with authority, obligations such as preserving communal knowledge, beliefs associated with morals, values, and wisdom, and norms like being the eldest. – Scyrme (talk/solidarity) 17:30, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Denpa song → Denpa (music) – I propose moving the article to Denpa (music). Although "denpa song" is used to refer to this particular musical style, "denpa" is the broader term from which the musical phenomenon derives and it's WP:COMMONAME. The proposed title is therefore preferable because it identifies the subject as a musical genre while retaining the established term "denpa", rather than treating "denpa song" as the only possible designation. It also provides a clearer distinction from the broader cultural and subcultural meanings of "denpa". ~2026-59423-90 (talk) 12:28, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – Upiór → Vampires in Slavic folklore – The current title isn't even close to being the common name for this topic in English. Upiór isn't even the most common word for it in Polish. Given the variety of terms used in the broad range of languages relevant to the topic of this article the best option is to use a descriptive title, rather than arbitrarily picking out only one of the many synonyms for "vampire" in the folklore of these cultures.
    The common name for this topic in English is in-fact Vampire, but the proposed merge went stale so that isn't happening. The move wouldn't address all the problems I raised in previous discussions (see 1 and 2), but it would be an improvement over the current situation. – Scyrme (talk/solidarity) 11:53, 5 November 2026 (UTC), Edited – Scyrme (talk/solidarity) 07:42, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – *Manu and *Yemo → Indo-European twin myth – *Mónus and *YémHos – as cited in the header of the article, these are the correct reconstructions. The reconstructed names are too dubious and should not be promoted. Regarding the spelling alone: # The notation is inconsistent with the convention on other articles such as *Dyēus, *H₂éwsōs, *H₁n̥gʷnis and *H₂epom Nepōts where the citation form is the nominative singular (which in all these cases happens to be marked by the ending *-s). The appearance of the s-less forms "Manu" and "Yemo" in some cited sources (of highly questionable reliability with regard to modern linguistics) is by no means a standard practice. It seems to come from back-projection of Sanskrit where the mainstream citation format is the vocative singular (thus dictionary headwords will typically be Manu, Yama rather than nom.sg. Manuḥ, Yamaḥ), but applying this convention to PIE reconstructions is highly uncommon in more modern sources, and practically nonexistent in academic sources in general that focus on linguistics more than mythology. Furthermore, not only is it inconsistent as mentioned above with Wikipedia's own de facto convention, but also with the sister project Wiktionary's de jure convention, potentially a source of confusion when these mismatch. It also sometimes arises from non-experts' confusion about the stem forms with hyphens, such as *Manu- and Yemo-, which is what I originally assumed was the source of these forms (compare the related move request for *Trito). Regardless of the intention behind them, which is not made clear anywhere, to anyone even somewhat versed in IE linguistics it ends up making these articles look instantly amateurishly bad. # The reconstructions are inaccurate in and of themselves. *Manus is problematic due to the *a, a reconstructed phoneme which is widely considered obsolete (see Proto-Indo-European phonology; the PIE vowel system was a (surface) four-vowel system */e o i u/, of which only *e and *o were actually phonemes (roughly [æ ~ ɛ ~ ə] and [ɑ ~ ɔ] respectively)). All securely reconstructible cases of *a have been replaced with either *o (with an understanding of unrounding in Italo-Celtic) or a laryngeal, usually *h₂, and in a few cases with *∅ (nonphonemic [ə] sometimes independently arising in daughter languages from consonant clusters in zero-grade). The unexplainable cases are largely onomatopoeias and loanwords which are no longer considered of PIE age, e.g. *gʰabʰ-, *kaput-, *bayt-, *kapro- (cf. Lubotsky (1989), Pronk (2019), and basically anything published from Leiden in the past decade). Also, the paroxytone accent is missing. Hence *Manu- is updated to *Mónu-. Edit: the more alternative *Mónus mentioned in the lead section cannot be correct either as the Sanskrit root vowel is short. *Yemo- is somewhat less problematic, but its validity is dubious because the analogical change *j- > *r- in Latin Remus is speculative; also, the presumed root meaning “twin; to join” is more often reconstructed nowadays with a laryngeal, *yemH-, thus the noun if it existed is perhaps *yemHós. # The reconstructions are not well supported by attested Indo-European languages. The article itself admits this. Especially the evidence for a character named *Yem(H)o- is poor, and the name is only found in Indo-Iranian and supposedly but problematically Latin (disputedly also Greek Iamos according to one linguist, but this is another formal mismatch and must be presumed borrowed from an extinct IE language if so). Side notes: It must be mentioned that there are numerous other problems with the PIE forms of the various related articles and they're unfortunately not consistent on any measure. For example, only aforementioned *H₂éwsōs includes an acute accent in the title whereas ideally any PIE word (especially with more than one syllable) should include one such accent; compare *Dyēus which, similar to *Manu and *Yemo, correctly writes *Dyḗus twice in the header but then omits the accent elsewhere in the article and from the title. To include some diacritics but not others (i.e. only including the macrons indicating vowel length but leaving out accent marks) is is a strange and arbitrary convention for us to have. (Other aspects of the orthography are inconsistent on Wikipedia too, as indicated by *Dyēus and *H₂éwsōs where the same diphthong */ew/ is written variably as ⟨eu⟩ or ⟨ew⟩.) The question of whether to include accents here is further complicated by uncertainty in where the accents would go in these words. A more glaring problem is that *Manu- and *Yemo- are hardly even reconstructed anymore by any respected linguist; they're highly speculative reconstructions like many of the traditional names for PIE deities (others are debunked more thoroughly, such as *Perkʷūnos, which was thankfully moved to Proto-Indo-European thunder god earlier this year, and *Werunos), and so attempts to keep them alive are somewhat fringe in IE studies. The traditional reconstructions often persist in sources on Indo-European mythology for the sake of, basically, tradition alone. Any concern that might occur in printed works about navigational backwards-compatibility (so to speak) is however solved in our digital medium by redirects. An older, outdated name should point to a newer, more accurate name for the same thing, for the same reason that we rename articles on biological species or taxa when those are formally renamed. At this point the main argument for keeping these spellings is that they've been practically borrowed into English by now as "Manu" and "Yemo", but in that case they should be de-italicized, de-asterisked and given a clear justification. — ~2026-58684-49 (talk) 05:26, 9 November 2026 (UTC)reply

November 8, 2026

  • (Discuss) – KPAM → KPAM (1640 AM) – I'm not seeing anything to indicate that this AM radio station is the primary topic, what with there having been multiple other radio stations in Oregon that went by the same name, and two articles in other topic areas that go by the same abbreviation of "KPAM". A search for the term on Google Scholar brings up various results that all appear unconnected to the radio station, including a chemical symbol for potassium polyacrylamide and a framework for robotic manipulation. Short of any clear indicator that this radio station is the primary topic, or what the primary topic for "KPAM" might be, per guidelines on disambiguations, I'm proposing the simple title "KPAM" be used for the disambiguation page and the radio station's title disambiguated with its AM frequency. Grnrchst (talk) 22:54, 8 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Elapsed listings

  • (Discuss) – Santiaogou Republic → Samtiaokioe Kongsi – Both elements of the current title Santiaogou Republic conflict with primary historical sources and modern English-language academic historiography ({{Section link}}: required section parameter(s) missing, {{Section link}}: required section parameter(s) missing, {{Section link}}: required section parameter(s) missing). (1) Samtiaokioe (historical Hakka / West Borneo local romanization) vs. Santiaogou (anachronistic Mandarin Pinyin): The members of this 18th–19th century West Borneo gold-mining federation were Pan-San-Hok (Hakka) migrants from Lufeng and Huilai in eastern Guangdong (Schaank 1893, pp. 515–517, 524–525). In the standard English-language academic monograph on the Chinese of West Kalimantan—Mary Somers Heidhues (2003), Golddiggers, Farmers, and Traders in the "Chinese Districts" of West Kalimantan, Indonesia (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications, pp. 55–57, 63, 66, 89–93, 96, 308)—the polity is consistently named and indexed as Samtiaokioe Kongsi (or Samtiaokioe). As Heidhues (2003, pp. 14–15) explicitly notes regarding romanization: "Mandarin Chinese was not understood by most Chinese in West Kalimantan before the twentieth century and to Mandarinize their names from an earlier era is to insert them into a national Chinese sphere to which they did not belong. Using local spellings puts these people in local history." This follows the 19th-century Dutch/Hakka primary sources, which record the name as Sam-thiao-keoe or Sam-thiao-kioe (Schaank 1893, pp. 520, 524–525, 535–546), Sam-tiou-kiou (Veth 1854–1856; Kielstra 1889–1893), and Sam-thiao-keou (Millies 1871), as well as 19th- and 20th-century English-language Sarawak historiography, which transcribes the local pronunciation as Santiaukiu (McDougall 1854, p. 117; St. John 1862, Vol. II, p. 325; Runciman 1960, p. 126), San Tiau Kiu (C. Brooke 1866, Vol. I, p. 213; Baring-Gould & Bampfylde 1909, p. 189; Lockard 1978, p. 93), San-ti-okew / San Ti Qu (J. Brooke 1839/1842, in Keppel 1846 I, p. 33; Mundy 1848 I, pp. 290, 294), or Sam Tiow Kew (Ward 1954). Only Yuan Bingling (2000) converted the name into modern Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin (Santiaogou), and even Yuan never used the title "Santiaogou Republic". (2) Kongsi vs. Republic: The native Chinese name on all contemporary seals, coins, and documents is 三條溝公司 (Sam-thiao-keoe Kong-si, later renamed 三達副廳 Sam-that Foe-thang / 三達總廳 Sam-that Tsoeng-thang and 和現正廳 Fo-hien Tshin-thang, and in Sarawak 十二公司 Sjip-nji Kong-si). Neither Heidhues (2003), nor Yuan (2000), nor Wang Tai Peng (1994), nor Lockard (1978), nor Chew (1990) calls this specific organization "Santiaogou Republic"—all academic sources refer to it as a kongsi (specifically Samtiaokioe Kongsi in Heidhues 2003, p. 308). Moving the page to Samtiaokioe Kongsi aligns the article title with mainstream English-language scholarship while preserving historical accuracy. Jtbhats (talk) 01:01, 8 November 2026 (UTC)reply

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  • (Discuss) – Board of Marshals → Wonsubu – The current title, "Board of Marshals", is inaccurate and ambiguous, and it is not the name used for this institution in reliable sources written in English. I propose moving the article to Wonsubu, the romanized name used in English-language scholarship, keeping "Board of Marshals" as a redirect, and giving "Supreme Military Council" in the lead as the most common English gloss. Detailed evidence is provided below. Kaito Akabane (talk) 15:29, 27 October 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 16:09, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply
  • (Discuss) – The Parting of the Ways → The Parting of the Ways (Doctor Who) – This is not the primary topic and a dab page should be created. Here, just for example, is a list of book with 'The Parting of the Ways' (or a close variant) in the title, all referring to Christainity and Judaism: *The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways *Parting of the Ways: The Variegated Ways of Separations Between Jews and Christians *The Parting of the Ways: The Roman Church as a Case Study *The Parting of the Ways: Judaism and the Rise of Christianity *Jews and Christians: The Parting of the Ways, A.D. 70 to 135 *Three Powers in Heaven: The Emergence of Theology and the Parting of the Ways *The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages *The Ways That Often Parted: Essays in Honor of Joel Marcus The Doctor Who episode is not the primary topic. Srnec (talk) 20:00, 25 October 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 14:32, 2 November 2026 (UTC)reply

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References

  1. ↑ Cumming-Bruce, Nick (2026-10-26). "Israel Has Committed Genocidal Acts in Gaza Since Cease-Fire, U.N. Human Rights Panel Says". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-10-28.
  2. ↑ Frankel, Julia (2026-10-26). "U.N.-commissioned experts say Gaza ceasefire has not stopped Israel from committing genocide". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2026-10-28.
  3. ↑ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/26/world/un-commissioned-experts-say-gaza-cease-fire-has-not-stopped-israel-committing-genocide/
  4. ↑ "UN ACCUSATIONS: Israel Rejects Gaza "Genocide" Report, Calls for Inquiry Commission to Be Dismantled". Retrieved 2026-10-28.
  5. ↑ https://apnews.com/article/israel-election-gaza-khan-younis-netanyahu-eisenkot-bc43883046b3c34f2878263a9de97ddb
  6. ↑ "". Google Maps, accessed on 2026-11-11.
  7. ↑ "". Google Trends, accessed on 2026-11-11.
  8. ↑ "Монгол кирил үсгийн латин хөрвүүлгийн шинэ стандарт батлагдлаа" [New latinization standard for Mongolian cyrillic script approved]. 18 February 2012 (in Mongolian). GoGo.mn. Archived from the original on 2 June 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
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