Talk:The Rangers (British battalion)

Requested move 27 November 2021

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: consensus that the current name isn't correct. I've provisionally moved it to The Rangers (British battalion) as at least a more strictly correct version. No prejudice against immediate renomination to achieve consensus on an appropriate title. -- Aervanath (talk) 15:27, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

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The Rangers (British regiment) → The Rangers (1860–1960) – A new regiment with the same name has been formed, so this page, and the page for the new regiment should be named to follow the pattern already adopted by the Royal Irish Regiment Hammersfan (talk) 15:13, 27 November 2021 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 18:33, 4 December 2021 (UTC)— Relisting. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 04:36, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

• Note: Obvious typographical problem of a hyphen corrected to a dash. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:07, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
• Rename as The Rangers (volunteers). The new regiment, although formally called the Ranger Regiment, will undoubtedly be known as the Rangers, so changed disambiguation is necessary. But I think this is better than dates, although if others disagree I would support the use of dates rather than the current title. Also, it wasn't really ever a regiment in its own right. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:43, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
• Comment I agree with Necrothesp that some rename will be necessary, and that the dates in the title is not the best option. I'm not certain what the best option is. My interim suggestion would be The Rangers (British regiment, est. 1860) but I'm sure that's not in line with policy. User:力 (powera, π, ν) 01:51, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
• Comment, I concur with the feeling that a rename may be wise, though I am similarly not keen on the dates suggestion. Also, The Rangers (volunteers) seems somewhat ambiguous as to what it relates to, until you view the page. Possibly The Rangers (volunteer unit), The Rangers (volunteer army) or The Rangers (volunteer regiment), though the idea if they were an actual regiment has been disputed above. I'm not totally sold on any of those suggestions though and there may well be better still. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:50, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

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.