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Requested move 8 February 2017

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Wikipedia's policy on article titles is to use the most common name, not the official name. Jenks24 (talk) 16:48, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3 → British Aerospace Nimrod AEW.3 – With full stop is correct. RadiculousJ (talk) 15:01, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). BilCat (talk) 16:01, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose – The period/full-stop is deprecated in current RAF usage. The move is controversial as such, and needs to be discussed first. BilCat (talk) 16:01, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the short form without the "." is more common for this time frame. MilborneOne (talk) 20:40, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support (obviously) – Surely we can apply the logic that the "official abbreviation" should have a full stop, whether it was common at the time or not. RadiculousJ (talk) 12:55, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, the short form doesnt have a full stop and they have not been used in these short from contractions for a number of years. You have to remember it is a contraction of the official abbreviation AEW Mk 3. MilborneOne (talk) 13:27, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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