Talk:Census and Statistics Department

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Move?

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No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:49, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department → Census and Statistics Department —

The name of this department is only used in one place and nowhere else, therefore should be moved per WP:UCN to be consistence with other similar titles. Ta-Va-Tar (discuss–?) 14:52, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There are many government and other organization departments in the world with more or less similar names and purposes. Keep "Hong Kong" as a disambig. The words "Hong Kong" may be often left out when writing within Hong Kong, but most Wikipedia readers are not in Hong Kong. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:25, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Perhaps rename it to Census and Statistics Department (Hong Kong) similar to Immigration Department (Hong Kong)? From a Google search, the only other place I found that uses the exact name "Census and Statistics Department" is Sri Lanka... Ta-Va-Tar (discuss–?) 01:37, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom and per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. There is no evidence of any department with a similar name presented yet here. (The Sri Lanka one doesn't have an article). The disambiguator is not needed (but not all that onerous either). — AjaxSmack 01:36, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Anthony Appleyard, as excessively generic. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 05:01, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, the proposed name sounds too generic and even people in Hong Kong wouldn't be confident it referred to the Hong Kong one - it makes sense for such departments to be identified geographically even if their exact name can't be found in use anywhere else.--Kotniski (talk) 05:58, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, although I could support Census and Statistics Department (Hong Kong). Wikipedia:Naming conventions (government and legislation) clearly states that all articles related to government and legislation (such as this one) need to indicate their jurisdiction, either through inclusion of the jurisdiction in their name, or through a parenthetical suffix. The nominator's proposed name does not meet these criteria. Arsenikk ^(talk) 12:01, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.