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Requested move 12 May 2018

It has been proposed in this section that Current Affairs (magazine) be renamed and moved to Current Affairs.

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Current Affairs (magazine) → Current Affairs – Sufficiently precise without parenthetical per WP:DIFFCAPS. Sangdeboeuf (talk) 18:28, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:29, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Sangdeboeuf: To many people, "Current Affairs" without disambiguater means current affairs, not a periodical publication. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:31, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, Red Meat without a disambiguator means red meat to many people, rather than an indie comic strip. Nonetheless, small details such as capitalization are "usually sufficient to distinguish" such topics according to titling policy. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 16:13, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Very common term. Insufficient disambiguation from Current affairs (news format). Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 01:55, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Wikipedia is not a dictionary, so a common term can still have a primary encyclopedic topic depending on details such as capitalization and punctuation (e.g. Law & Order). The news format is unlikely to be capitalized. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 18:14, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Also move current affairs (news format) to current affairs and put a hatnote on each. There are no other articles titled with those two words. That way anyone typing the phrase with or without caps will either get directly to their article or be one click away. Station1 (talk) 20:30, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose no primary. In ictu oculi (talk) 21:17, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]