Talk:2019 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team
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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. Most editors prefer the articles' current titles to maintain consistency with the article titles of other sports teams. (non-admin closure) — Newslingertalk 09:38, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
<year> <team name> team, where <team name> in the case is <country> <event>, as there is only one sport in FIBA Basketball World Cup. Thus <year> <country> <event> team, or 2019 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team, i.e. year=2019, country=United States, event=FIBA Baseketball World Cup. Regards.—Bagumba (talk) 16:03, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I am unconvinced so far that FIBA World Cup team titles should deviate from the general format of all sports teams, which generally begin with the year followed by the team name. If your issue is inconsistency of category names, WP:CFD seems a more appropriate venue. I would support a rename of the categories. Honestly, I'm not much of a category person, so I just assumed there was an accepted IAR convention there. Cheers.—Bagumba (talk) 00:27, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
CommentWP:OTHERSTUFF can sometimes bring up worthwhile points. On that note, it seems disingenuous to discount numerous Olympic examples but then slip in a FIFA (soccer/football) reference in a FIBA Basketball World Cup discussion, unless we're simplistically limiting this because of an artificial name commonality among different sports.—Bagumba (talk) 00:54, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Examples from sources marked by underlines: "Minnesota coach Tom Thibodeau, who coached Davis on the 2014 U.S. FIBA World Cup team ..." Reuters, "Two years later, Davis won gold again as one of the core pieces on the 2014 U.S FIBA World Cup squad." ESPN1420.com, "Missing from the player pool are Derrick Rose and Mason Plumlee who both were members of the 2014 U.S. FIBA World Cup team that won the gold medal in Spain." DailyKnicks.com, "Named as members of the official 2014 USA Basketball World Cup Team were: ..."NBA.com, "George, a three-time NBA All-Star, is back from a severe leg injury that kept him off the 2014 US Basketball World Cup championship squad." Manila Times, "The 2014 USA Basketball Men's World Cup Team will play its preliminary round games in Bilbao, Spain, after being drawn into Group C along with teams from the Dominican Republic, New Zealand, Turkey and Ukraine." The United Center, "Shawn Marion, the lone Olympian who played on the 2002 United States world championship team." The New York Times, "Indiana Pacers teammates Reggie Miller and Jermaine O'Neal were among seven NBA stars named to the 2002 United States World Championship team Thursday." UPI.—Bagumba (talk) 04:50, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose No compelling reason to move away from existing convention with similar cases mentioned. Titling the article around the team makes sense as the scope of many of these articles extends into team selection, etc., not just the results at the event. Rikster2 (talk) 21:26, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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