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Requested move 22 November 2021

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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. (non-admin closure) Turnagra (talk) 08:42, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]


South East Forests National ParkSouth East Forest National Park – The park's official website uses South East Forest National Park, without the s (see https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/south-east-forest-national-park) SHB2000 (talk) 12:37, 22 November 2021 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:43, 29 November 2021 (UTC)— Relisting. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook(talk) 15:47, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The legal name of the park is "South East Forest National Park", as specified in the Forestry Revocation and National Park Reservation Act 1996[1] as per section 8 of that Act of the New South Wales Parliament:

8 Alteration of names of certain national parks
The name of each of the following national parks is altered to South East Forest National Park[a] with the intention that, on the commencement of this Act, each of the parks becomes part of that Park:
Bemboka National Park
Coolangubra National Park
Genoa National Park
Tantawangalo National Park
Yowaka National Park.
Because the Park was the amalgamation of several disjoint land areas, common useage pluralised "Forest"s. Also, some official in situ signage also pluralises "Forest"s.
Photograph of an official sign for the national park at one of its road boundaries using the pluralised word, "forests".
Offical signage with the word "Forests".

Note that the pluralised form is in common useage. See here for example, which also includes a number of official New South Wales Government sites. And, see here for many sites which use both the singular and the plural including official Government sites!

So I think it comes down to common usage or legal usage?

Aoziwe (talk) 11:35, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

These guidelines/essays may be of help: Wikipedia:Article_titles#Use_commonly_recognizable_names, Wikipedia:Official_names. Sparkie82 (tc) 01:20, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

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  1. ^ Bolding added

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Other names

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I see that this article has been moved at least once

 09:06, 23 December 2013‎ Viridae talk contribs block‎  62 bytes +62‎  Viridae moved page South East Forest National Park to South East Forests National Park: Both NSWPW and the environment department refer to this as south east forestS - as do the signs in the park themselves 

and I see that rationale as equally invalid as this one. But note above the reference to wp:official names. All unambiguous previous and current official names should have redirects to this article, and should be mentioned in it... well, there's no need to have both singular and plural versions in the article perhaps, but no reason not to have both redirects. This is both policy and commonsense. Andrewa (talk) 18:47, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.