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Consistent with recent discussion at WT:BASEBALL, this is a proposal to rename biographical article Nig Cuppy to George Cuppy. Searching on newspapers.com finds that during Cuppy's time in professional baseball (1891 to 1901), especially with the Cleveland Spiders during 1892–1898, he was referred to as "George Cuppy" much more than "Nig Cuppy". Search examples, all done on newspapers.com:
"george cuppy" baseball for 1891–1901 gets 296 hits
"nig cuppy" baseball for 1891–1901 gets 60 hits
"george cuppy" pitcher for 1891–1901 gets 517 hits
"nig cuppy" pitcher for 1891–1901 gets 69 hits
"george cuppy" cleveland for 1892–1898 gets 339 hits
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.
Nig Cuppy → George Cuppy – George Joseph Cuppy was primarily referred to as "George Cuppy" during his time playing professional baseball (1891–1901). While baseball reference sites such as Baseball-Reference.com and Retrosheet list him (or have previously listed him) as "Nig Cuppy", that name was not used nearly as often as George Cuppy by contemporary newspaper reports. The results of searches conducted via newspapers.com are listed on the Talk page. Wikipedia page "George Cuppy" currently exists as a redirect to "Nig Cuppy". Dmoore5556 (talk) 02:55, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support - based on modern research. Baseball-reference has made the change, I and suspect that most other online sources will follow as well. Neonblaktalk - 16:44, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Frankly, I'm rather uncomfortable to be titling articles with such obvious slurs generally. As opposed to some of the others where it's a COMMONNAME issue, this seems more like a WP:CRITERIA issue (i.e. something that perhaps should be addressed at WP:CRITERIA). GoPhightins!20:20, 14 May 2021 (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.
