Talk:BWI

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Requested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived 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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Not Moved, no concensus or compelling evidence that the Airport is Primary over the Islands--page views and incoming links favor the islands, not the airport) Mike Cline (talk) 16:24, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

BWI → BWI (disambiguation) – To allow BWI to be a redirect to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, which is clearly the primary topic. Apteva (talk) 06:56, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Survey[edit]

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Oppose; I doubt that the airport is so much more important than the British West Indies that we should make it the place people end up when they type simply "BWI". If you'd told me that you were going to request that this page be moved without telling me what you wanted to do with "BWI", I would have assumed that you would make it redirect to the British West Indies. 98.223.196.72 (talk) 00:55, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – In books, most of the BWI hits refer to British West Indies. Let's leave the disambig page where it is to deal with the ambiguity and the difference of opinion about what topic would be more primary. Dicklyon (talk) 02:59, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
B.W.I., but not BWI, which almost exclusively refers to the airport. Apteva (talk) 22:25, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
That's demonstrably very false at the book search I linked. Dicklyon (talk) 22:31, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Apteva, did you check Google Books before making RM? In ictu oculi (talk) 04:11, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. On google web 10 of the first 12 are for the airport, one is for a company one is for one is for Penn State Football. British West Indies appears no where among them. In google news 9/9 of the first entries are the airport. In books they come in groups, a group about British West Indies, a group about the airport. Apteva (talk) 19:07, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, in very few places is BWI used for an abbreviation for the British West Indies, which is almost always abbreviated B.W.I., which redirects to British West Indies. Likewise, the airport is hardly ever abbreviated as B.W.I., but as BWI, so therefore, BWI is clearly the primary topic for the airport, and is not in conflict with B.W.I. Apteva (talk) 22:22, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. To me, BWI means British West Indies. Saying that full stops are usually used in that abbreviation is spurious - full stops were usually used in most abbreviations years ago, but frequently aren't today. -- Necrothesp (talk) 17:00, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Any additional comments:

What evidence is there that the airport is the clear primary target? Page hits? Google hits? bd2412 T 15:37, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- BWI is the most commonly used name for the airport. British West Indies is not abbreviated BWI, but to B.W.I., which is a redirect to British West Indies. BWI should also be a redirect. Apteva (talk) 22:21, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - Sorry, but this is rubbish. Full stops or no full stops, both are abbreviated BWI. In fact, modern British English omits full stops in abbreviations far more frequently than modern American English. A newspaper writing the abbreviation fifty years ago would probably have used B.W.I.; someone writing today would probably render it BWI. -- Necrothesp (talk) 01:02, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - And they would have been referring to British West Indies 50 years ago. The airport was not renamed until 1973. Apteva (talk) 15:50, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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