Talk:Goodwood, North West

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Requested move 7 January 2022[edit]

The following is a closed 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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus and thus not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:48, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Goodwood, North West → Phuane – Bold move was reversed with no objection given. This is a miniscule town with very little written about it. Official sources use the new name and there is already a Goodwood, Western Cape.

https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/315631185.pdf Desertambition (talk) 00:25, 7 January 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:59, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

~~Support~~ per nom. Was unable to identify use outside of official documents. BilledMammal (talk) 05:43, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Soft oppose per Toddy1. BilledMammal (talk) 08:19, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 23:40, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Phuane has another meaning - Phuane communities are part of the Lao Lum ethnic group in Laos.^{World Bank Report dated 31 August 1998} This ethnic subgroup is probably more notable than the obscure village in South Africa.

From a practical point of view, Goodwood, North West province is a more useful name for the article than Phuane for this village. Goodwood in North West province can be found on Google Maps, Phuane cannot. Searches on Google find a few websites with information for Goodwood in North West province but not Phuane, but some of these may get their data from Wikipedia, so it is possibly a circular argument. Because Phuane is a family name, searches of Google shows some results for people with that name. Searches on Google News failed to find anything relevant to either name. There are other places called Goodwood, such as Goodwood a suburb of Cape Town. The Goodwood in North West province and its other name Phuane are mentioned in the Dictionary of Southern African Place Names.

Raper, Peter E; Moller, Lucie A; du Plessis, Theodorus L (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. ISBN 9781868425501.

-- Toddy1 (talk) 12:12, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.