Talk:New QEII Hospital

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Requested move 6 August 2020[edit]

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: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) —Nnadigoodluck🇳🇬 02:41, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Queen Elizabeth II Hospital → New QEII Hospital – The official name of the current hospital is "New QEII Hospital" ([1] [2]). The current article title, strictly speaking, only refers to the hospital that was on approximately (but not exactly) the same site from 1963 to 2015. Tevildo (talk) 23:37, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support as proposer. Tevildo (talk)
Comment. If the original hospital (the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital) and its successor(?) (the New QEII Hospital) are both covered by this one article, why is one name preferable to another? The original was obviously never called the New QEII Hospital. Wouldn't the proposed title, strictly speaking, refer only to the new hospital? Station1 (talk) 01:36, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, in an ideal world where we comprehensively covered every current and previous hospital in the UK in detail, we'd have two separate articles, one about the old hospital and one about the new one. However, for the moment, we only give basic information, and anyone reading the article is more likely to be interested in the current hospital. Tevildo (talk) 09:23, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support I understand the concern of Station1 above, but this is really an article about the new hospital that has two sentences about the old one.--Yaksar (let's chat) 02:20, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support There is precedent for using the current name of the hospital and also discussing former-names of the hospital. The former name would be entered into the Infobox hospital, former-names parameter. The opened date would be the original hospital open date, so long as it is the same organization for the hospital. WP:HOS -- Talk to G Moore 11:43, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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