Talk:New Hampshire Senate

Requested move 8 July 2021

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: Not moved only one editor agrees with the nom and Andrewa’s oppose argument is exceptionally strong in terms of policy basis, mentioning concision and common name as well as the weakness of official names. (non-admin closure) В²C ☎ 05:29, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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New Hampshire Senate → New Hampshire State Senate – Looks to be officially the "New Hampshire State Senate", for example the term is used on their website. Elli (talk | contribs) 20:55, 8 July 2021 (UTC) —Relisting. No such user (talk) 11:32, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

• Support for many US state-level legislative bodies, there is tension between official documents which do not use the phrase "State Senate", and common usage that does. Here both the official name and the common name are "State Senate". User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 20:07, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose. The official website appears to have the title primarily "State Senate" with a slightly unusual lower level prefix, like a pre-subtitle "New Hampshire", resulting in a double level title that is verbose when destyled. Also Google Ngram. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 07:34, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

  @SmokeyJoe: I'm pretty sure "New Hampshire Senate" is getting a lot of stuff on United States Senate elections in New Hampshire - for example, the huge spike in 1974-75 is probably attributable to the controversial 1974 and 1975 United States Senate elections in New Hampshire. Elli (talk | contribs) 16:28, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

  Yes, quite a 1975 spike [1]. SmokeyJoe (talk) 21:40, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose. There are a couple of outriders at Category:State upper houses in the United States, some (possibly all) for good reasons. But the current article name here is concise and unambiguous and easily recognisable, and follows the more common pattern for State senates. There seems no reason to lengthen it. The official page is a primary source and carries little weight. Andrewa (talk) 11:16, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

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