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Requested move 1 February 2024

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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.

The result of the move request was: all except Demography of the Roman Empire have consensus to move. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:32, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]



– "Demography" is a field of study; "Demographics" are the statistics reflecting the characteristics of a place examined in this field. We have 348 articles at "Demographics of" titles, and these 26 at "Demography of" titles, so I propose we move these to conform with the much larger group, and with correct usage. BD2412 T 02:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC) — Relisting.  — Amakuru (talk) 12:54, 9 February 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. 🌺 Cremastra (talk) 22:14, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Weak support: I actually think that a stronger case could be made that "demography" is a better title—thinking of words with a similar distinction, I believe we usually use the name of a science for articles or sections about what it tells us about something; for instance, "geography of Scotland". "Demographics" is common in English, but I can't think of many similar words where "-graphics" is widely used (the first one I can think of is "infographics", which seems to be neologism, although "infography" exists). But there's no obvious reason to keep 26 at "demography" and 14 times that many at "demographics". Since it's unlikely that there'd be a project-wide move of the other 348 to "demography", and consistency is logical here, this move makes sense. That said, it won't really hurt anything if some articles keep "demography". P Aculeius (talk) 12:16, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: WikiProject Northern Ireland has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 14:51, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: WikiProject Ireland has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 14:52, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support
Dencoolast33 (talk) 17:20, 13 February 2024 (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.