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On 13 November 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved from Columbus Mudcats to Columbus Astros. The result of the discussion was moved.

Requested move 13 November 2025

Latest comment: 10 months ago3 comments3 people in discussion

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) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 00:21, 22 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Columbus Mudcats → Columbus Astros – Team used the name Astros for 19 years, only used the name Mudcats for 2 years. Newspapers.com search of “Columbus Astros” from 1991-2025 yields 5200 matches, search of “Columbus Mudcats” over the same timespan has only 300 matches. “Columbus Astros” is the WP:COMMONNAME. SirParzifal (talk) 00:44, 13 November 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 04:23, 19 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Weak support based on the length of seasons as the "Columbus Astros", not the number of search results. Searching newspapers.com for "columbus astros" returns results for "columbus astros", "columbus", and "astros". As such, lots of the results are not about this team, but about the Houston Astros or other teams from Columbus, so comparing the number of search results doesn't accurately indicate the most used term. A search for each name when restricting the results to the state of Georgia and 1992-2025 (to eliminate articles about the team's absence in the area in 1991, turns up 276 results for "astros" and 115 for "mudcats". Furthermore, most of the "astros" results are talking about the team in an historical sense, as in talking about something that happened in the past when the team bore that moniker. NatureBoyMD (talk) 18:15, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

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