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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.
A generic title would be better, but I'm not sure "alcohol tourism" is necessarily it. That phrase seems more commonly used to describe people travelling to a different country to drink alcohol, whether that's present-day Brits on holiday in Spain, or Americans travelling to the Caribbean in the 1920s. --Lord Belbury (talk) 11:18, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose: The proposed title sounds like it is about tourism activities for people who like to drink a lot while they are travelling. That is not what it is about. (The current title somewhat has that problem too, but the proposed move would further aggravate the problem.) Also, per the remarks by Lord Belbury and Rreagan007, is this proposing to broaden the scope of the article to include all border crossings in the world that are intended for alcohol purchasing? If so, a more precise description would be something like Alchohol purchasing tourism or Cross-border travel for alcohol purchasing. — BarrelProof (talk) 17:27, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Probably makes sense since WP is not a dictionary unless there's a significant amount of content to say about the term "Booze cruise" beyond a dictionary definition. I'd only heard the term here. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:40, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support because I suspect that the Channel crossing is not the primary meaning of "booze cruise". I was unable to easily verify that it is, and it is certainly not what the term means in North America. Srnec (talk) 18:54, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - As the article states, "This article is about the British practice of buying alcohol and tobacco products from mainland Europe". As it is about the British practice, WP:MOSTIES dictates that British English is used, and in British English, the WP:COMMONNAME is booze cruise. --Ykraps (talk) 08:30, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There probably is scope for a generic article about crossing borders to buy alcohol, but this article is about the very well-known (to us) British practice, and "alcohol tourism" would not be a good title even for a generic article. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:42, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose for the proposed generic title sounding more like the concept of people travelling somewhere to drink alcohol, not to buy it. The arguments for the article defining a "British practice" seem circular, though, I don't see any reason why the article can't have sections about Finland and other countries where it also happens, with local names for the practice being included. If there's scope for "a generic article about crossing borders to buy alcohol", this could and should be it. --Lord Belbury (talk) 16:24, 23 February 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.
