Talk:Boston Minutemen

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Requested move 28 February 2014

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Feel free to add hatnotes as desired. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:52, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Boston Minutemen → Boston Minutemen (soccer) – The primary topic of "Boston Minutemen" are the Minutemen from/in Boston during the Revolutionary War, not this soccer team. Therefore "Boston Minutemen" should redirect to Minutemen. 70.50.151.11 (talk) 05:07, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Mild support - I was all set to immediately support on WP:CAPS, but looking at Google books suggests "Boston minutemen" is a rare phrase in Revolutionary War context and not capitalized. But then this soccer team only ran 1974-1976 and the term in 2002 refers to "Massachusetts's largest Boy Scout council, the Boston Minutemen, took another stand for nondiscrimination June 10" ... raising a different reason for adding (soccer) to distinguish from http://www.bsaboston.org/ .. so support, but more because of the clash with the Boy Scouts of America membership controversies article content than because of the WP:CAPS issue. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:07, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But if moved leave redirecting to (soccer), since too many incoming links to make creating an intervening dab worthwhile In ictu oculi (talk) 09:13, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It should be an easy fix, since this article appears on a template that appears on many pages. The move should not have a problem with fixing incoming links. Just fixing the template should do most of the corrections. -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 00:48, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Boston minutemen isn't a term used to describe the Revolutionary War soldiers. They were known simply as minutemen. Hot Stop 19:41, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- How would you distinguish the minutemen from outside of Boston to those in Boston? Would you not use "Boston" as an adjective? -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 00:46, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - It doesn't matter where they're from, they're still minutemen. Hot Stop 02:54, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Mild oppose - It seems to me that this is a reasonably unlikely possible phrase to type in when looking for Minutemen. Hatnotes should be sufficient. Red Slash 17:03, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose There's no reason to move it from here, as the name that it is at right now is not all that big in Massachusetts vernacular, so it's not really confusing anyone right now. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 21:05, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Any additional comments:

Suggestion Regardless of the move decision, a hatnote to Minutemen plus disambiguation seems to be needed.
SBaker43 (talk) 14:04, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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