Talk:Grays

Requested move 6 April 2020

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The result of the move request was: moved -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:17, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Grays (disambiguation) → Grays
Grays → Grays, Essex

– No clear primary topic. See also discussion at User talk:Red Slash#PLURALPT and colours. Views[[1]] show the town gets much more views than the other 2 places called "Grays" but some other less likely articles get more such as the colour and LA team, probably a PTM for its former name like arguably Ravens, Pacers and Mariners but the teams are apparently commonly abbreviated. Even though the colour is similar to a mass noun (see the Oranges example of WP:PLURALPT) and User:Crouch, Swale/Colours it seems that because the colour is far more important it should displace the town. When I Google Grays (from Suffolk about 60 miles from Grays) there are a number of results not for the town like Grays Hockey, Grays International and Grays of Westminster. A Books search only returns 1 result for the town (which calls it "Grays Thurrock") but most of those other results appear to be PTMs. We could also move it to Grays Thurrock per WP:NATURAL but given the town appears to generally be called just "Grays" today comma disambiguation might be better like Bray, Berkshire rather than Bray on Thames. In other words "Grays Thurrock" appears to be a bit anachronistic. There are also several other places at de:Grays (Begriffsklärung). Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:08, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 20:05, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. No clear primary topic for "Grays". Move disambiguation page to basename. Paintspot Infez (talk) 20:57, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Makes sense. KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 17:36, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support No obvious primary topic. Grays, Essex also best title for the town's article. ~~ Alex Noble/1-2/TRB 20:05, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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