Talk:Welwitschia Mirabilis Airport

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Requested move 4 June 2018

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved. There's consensus for move to Yuri Gagarin Airport. (non-admin closure) –Ammarpad (talk) 04:50, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Namibe Airport → Moçâmedes Airport – The city changed its name to Moçâmedes in 2016. Trinaliv (talk) 17:52, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Whether the city changed its name is not directly related to the official or common name of the airport. Also, note related discussion at Talk:Gagarinsky International Airport; this airport is also known as Gagarin International Airport. Dekimasuよ! 18:50, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'd recommend waiting until we find a newspaper article announcing the change or we get a photo of the new sign on the airport teminal. Right now all the standard sources say Namibe. We have a good number of airport articles where the article and airport names are not the same. Cptmrmcmillan (talk) 03:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. As Dekimasu notes, if anything, this article should be moved to Yuri Gagarin Airport, as that appears to be the name what few reliable sources out there use. See http://www.angop.ao/angola/en_us/noticias/sociedade/2013/7/33/Yuri-Gagarin-airport-receives-first-planes-September,80357611-2a73-440a-9f1b-35d19eb1905d.html . Also ICAO's website, while not 100% reliable (they can be out of date, too), comes back with "airportName": "IBE/YURI GAGARIN". Better sources would definitely help, though... the sole airline that flies here still calls it just "Namibe" on their website in both English & Portuguese, FWIW ( http://www.taag.com/en/Destinations/Destination-Guide/Destination/namibe ). SnowFire (talk) 20:19, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support "Yuri Gagarin International Airport" or "Yuri Gagarin Airport", and oppose the proposed title unless it becomes the common name at some point. Dekimasuよ! 22:59, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, upgrade from comment to support on Yuri Gagarin Airport myself, seeing no other sources offered. SnowFire (talk) 16:16, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support Yuri Gagarin Airport. My review of the few English sources available supports what SnowFire and Dekimasu have said.--Cúchullain ^t/c 15:52, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Gagarinsky International Airport which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 18:20, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]