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Added information & a reference on the possible renaming of Hyndburn to Accrington & District. Looking at the size of the article compared to articles on Blackburn, Accrington and Lancashire, one can see for themselves that the name Hyndburn is largely anonymous in areas not near it. Lra drama 14:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is an irrelevant argument in the debate; one can hardly claim that just because the article on wikipedia is a small one, the name should be changed! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.91.225 (talk) 23:22, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 30 September 2018[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Not Moved L293D (☎ • ✎) 14:50, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hyndburn → Borough of Hyndburn – Per WP:NATURAL and WP:COMMONNAME the district is usually called "Hyndburn District"[1] or "Borough of Hyndburn" in a generic context even though "Hyndburn" is the preferred label by the OS, presumably when its clear from the context that you're referring to the district. The district is named after the River Hyndburn and this move is consistent with WP:UKDISTRICTS ("Non-metropolitan districts with local ambiguity...". Views [[2]] show that this doesn't get significantly more views anyway even it it was just called "Hyndburn". Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:14, 30 September 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 09:23, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - ordinarily I agree with you on these moves, like Thanet and Meon and so on, but I'm going to respectfully disagree here. A Google search shows almost all results relating to the district, and the river is considerably smaller and less significant than a lot of others that have districts named after them. And the page views do show it getting well over 50%, so it's not like it's not being sought. I think a PTOPIC is alright here. — Amakuru (talk) 12:10, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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