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Change in name made by welsh lepreachaun

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(moved Liberty Stadium to Liberty Stadium, Swansea over redirect: There are larger Liberty Stadiums in the world)

what larger liberty stadiums are there in the world right. please do tell me about these mysterious liberty stadiums there are in the world right now, bigger than the liberty in swansea, more known than the liberty stadium in swansea! because i could not find any larger liberty in the world than the one in swansea. do try and prove me wrong if u wish to do so. Swanseajack4life (talk) 19:06, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Liberty Stadium (Ibadan) in Nigeria seats 25,000. The disambiguation is there for a reason. The Liberty Stadium in Swansea is not particularly famous in Europe let alone worldwide, so it is placing undue weight on the Swansea stadium to have its article under Liberty Stadium. There's nothing wrong with being proud of your home town, but please do not let it intefere with edits that contradict Wikipedia rules and guidelines. Welshleprechaun (talk) 19:48, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have no objection in principle to the disambiguation, but it is worth noting that there are 65,500 Google hits for "Liberty Stadium" + Swansea[1] compared to only 1,740 for "Liberty Stadium" + Ibadan[2]. Of course, that could simply reflect the Eurocentric nature of the internet.--Pondle (talk) 19:56, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i dont see anything wrong with a disambiguation page in place but as pondle mentioned there are more hits on google on the liberty stadium in swansea than ibadan liberty stadium. just to mentioned aswell but im not trying to seem proud of swansea or anything like that but i thought that if a name of a place is a common name around the world, then the place more well known and bigger would have that name and any other place would have to put a word on the end to show what it is. for example, i know that Old Trafford is a well known venue thoughout the world, but there are many other places under the name old trafford that have had to add to there name to distinguish that page. i just thought that there wasnt another liberty in the world right now that is bigger or more well known than in swansea. Swanseajack4life (talk) 21:25, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Plans to expand

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Is there any motions to expand capacity if Swansea stay in the Prem? Some newer grounds are built with possible futher development in mind, is this the case at White Rock? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.4.145.187 (talk) 18:57, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sports arena

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Welshleprechaun recently changed sports arena to sport arena, arguing that this is more appropriate in British English. I've checked my copies of Chambers dictionary and the Concise Oxford dictionary, and sports as a plural noun or adjective is fine in British English. I don't know about other British editors, but the school I went to held a sports day on its sports ground; likewise there are many more references to sports arenas in the UK"sports+arena"&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK|countryGB&aq=f&oq= than there are to sport arenas"sport+arena"&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK|countryGB&aq=f&oq=.--Pondle (talk) 16:26, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 12:15, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]



Liberty Stadium, SwanseaLiberty Stadium – Primary topic. --Relisted JHunterJ (talk) 15:37, 24 June 2012 (UTC) Swanseajack4life (talk) 18:37, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose – No evidence seems to be provided by the nom that this is the primary topic. Also, the nominator has just blanked the Liberty Stadium DAB page, has a username that appears to indicate topic bias, and has a history of related edit warnings. —BarrelProof (talk) 20:46, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • Further comment: Also, I notice that it is not the first time that the nom has blanked the DAB page and had that action reverted. —BarrelProof (talk) 20:58, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
      • Comment The name of the liberty stadium in ibadan has been renamed the obafemi awolowo stadium so i dont think it should be included on this disambiguation page anymore as it is no longer named liberty stadium and having looked into other disambig pages eg. stade municipal, estadio municipal and municipal stadium none of them have have each others links except for in see also. therefore the stadionul liberty should follow as the other pages do. with no other liberty i felt this mite qualify as the primary topic unless wiki guidelines say otherwise. oh and im not biased because i support my club in anyway i mean i wouldnt have bothered asking for the name change if there was another stadium in the world with the same name. i hope you can see where i am coming from Swanseajack4life (talk) 22:49, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. This was discussed a couple of years ago as can be seen above. At the time I was agnostic, but it's worth noting that page after page of the top Google hits for "Liberty Stadium" relate to this venue. In fact, the Swansea stadium now seems to be the only example with this exact name. Pondle (talk) 21:54, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The nominator has gone about things the wrong way, but the substance of his case is sound. A quick Google for "Liberty Stadium" + Swansea generates 934,000 hits, compared to 104,000 for Salonta and 20,900 for Ibadan (and the Ibadan stadium has now been renamed anyway). We should use a bit of common sense on this one. Pondle (talk) 11:26, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. There's really no ambiguity about the primary topic when there are only two stadiums with the same name - one of which is a 20,000-seat stadium hosting a team currently playing in the world's most-watched football league, while the other is a 1,000-capacity ground in a small town, home to a team in the fourth (amateur?) tier of Romanian football. I mean, really... --Pondle (talk) 15:10, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – The DAB page lists three stadiums with the exact name, not two, and also lists three others with names similar enough to be reasonably confused. –BarrelProof (talk) 19:32, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. As the nominator mentioned, the Ibadan 'Liberty Stadium' has been renamed, which only leaves the smaller, little-known one in Romania. Of the remaining stadia on that page which also have the word 'Liberty' in their names, one was never built, and I don't think I've ever seen either of the others confused with the ground in Swansea (there are no Google results for "Liberty Stadium, Des Moines"; only one hit on a football forum for "Liberty Stadium, Nuneaton" (sic); there are six hits for "Liberty Stadium, Memphis" - but they've also got the name wrong). Pondle (talk) 20:30, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Can i just say for the record when i deleted those pages i searched for all pages with the previous name links and replaced them with the new names so there would be no need for redirects and as pondle brought up the other titles may have 'liberty' in their name but are not correct. also if you look up Old Trafford, Villa Park and St James's Park the more well known page is the primary topic so why not the same for this page it makes sense Swanseajack4life (talk) 00:28, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – The fact that the stadium in Ibadan has been officially renamed does not mean that its WP:COMMONNAME has changed or that historical references to it have disappeared or that future material will not refer to its historic name. Wikipedia pays attention to common names, not "official" names. Also, according to its article, that was the first stadium to be built in Africa. If that is true, or even partly true (e.g. if it was the first football stadium), then the stadium and the name it had when built has historical value and information about it should remain readily accessible. –BarrelProof (talk) 05:11, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. It's impossible to ascertain the common name for Ibadan's stadium - there's very little WP:RS information on this venue in the public domain. But there certainly seem to be a decent number of Google hits on its current name. The claim that it's the oldest stadium in Africa is clearly inaccurate given that, for example, Loftus Versfeld was built in 1906, Newlands Stadium in 1919, etc etc. As for the oldest football stadium, I see that the Cairo International Stadium was opened in 1956; there may be other older stadia. Pondle (talk) 18:26, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Further comment – I also notice that the last 5 edits to the Liberty Stadium (Ibadan) article were made by the above nominator Swanseajack4life just a couple of days ago, and that those edits suppressed the use of the term "Liberty Stadium" in the article – including moving the article to a different name without any prior discussion and removing the name "Liberty Stadium" from the lead article section. Such actions do not seem helpful toward creating a good atmosphere for consideration of this move request. –BarrelProof (talk) 16:37, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Reply. Agreed, Swanseajack4life made some ill-judged unilateral edits, and that's unfortunately coloured the debate. He seems unfamiliar with Wikipedia etiquette and I get the impression that he might be quite young. The thing is, he was right about the renaming of the Ibadan stadium.[3][4]Pondle (talk) 18:26, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Withdrawal of opposition – Thank you Pondle. At this point I think you're probably right. I hope that Swanseajack4life will learn from this. Also, the existing Liberty Stadium dab article should be moved to Liberty Stadium (disambiguation), and an "Other uses" hatnote template should be placed in the (newly-renamed to) Liberty Stadium article. –BarrelProof (talk) 19:34, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
You may want to strike your oppose just so it is clear to the closer. AIRcorn (talk) 06:09, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Requested move 8 September 2021

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The result of the move request was: Moved. There is a consensus in support of the proposed move, with evidence presented that WP:NAMECHANGES has been satisfied here.  — Amakuru (talk) 10:14, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]


Liberty StadiumSwansea.com Stadium – Surprised to see this hasn't been done already. The stadium was called Liberty Stadium not because the people of Swansea wanted to honour the concept of freedom, but because of a £500,000 sponsorship deal in October 2005. [5] According to aforementioned source, if you want an unsponsored name for the place, it would be "New Stadium Swansea", something which existed for a few weeks when the team were in League One. For those outside the British football loop, the stadium has a new naming deal for the next decade. [6] There is precedent in moving the names of modern stadiums which have never been unsponsored: DW Stadium (formerly JJB), University of Bolton Stadium (formerly Reebok, Macron) and lord knows how many North American stadiums. 86.175.147.68 (talk) 14:17, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Given the bet365 Stadium was moved to it's current title for an initial six years ([7]), I don't see any problems at this moment of renaming this article to the requested move. This page here was previously moved without a discussion taking place first so that's a good idea to discuss this requested move. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 17:21, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support -dashiellx (talk) 17:47, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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