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== Year range for two consecutive years ==
Recently a single user moved <s>497</s> 249 figure skating pages that had xxxx–xx year in title to xxxx–xxxx without discussion. I [[Special:Permalink/858686535#Requests to revert undiscussed moves|requested they be moved back]], but was told I should start a discussion on village pump first.
* Per conclusion of [[Special:Permalink/744053720#WP:DATERANGE ambiguity and stylistic concerns|previous RFC]], "applications such as sports seasons, fiscal years, and consecutive years use the two-year date range convention without problems. These applications can continue to do so." I'm okay fine with continuing that, and thus request the undiscussed moves to be reverted.
* Mover's argument has been that [[MOS:DATERANGE]] prefers xxxx–xxxx. My reading of MOS: it states xxxx–xxxx is the general format and it states xxxx–xx may be used for two consecutive years. Guidelines does not say xxxx–xxxx is preferred to xxxx–xx for two consecutive years.
* Looking at other Wikipedia article titles, xxxx–xx is the established preferred format for two consecutive years and xxxx–xxxx for three or more years. (Searching on "2017–18", I found many examples, e.g. [[2017–18 Men's Hockey League season]], [[2017–18 NBA season]], [[2017–18 Premier League]], [[2017–18 UEFA Champions League]], [[2017–18 La Liga]], [[2017–18 EFL Cup]], [[2017–18 NFL playoffs]], [[2017–18 Manchester City F.C. season]], [[2017–18 Formula E season]], etc. As for "2017–2018", I only found a few non-sports articles using that format, though many non-sports articles used "2017–18" format, e.g. [[2017–18 Australian region cyclone season]] and [[2017–18 North Korea crisis]].) And until a few hours ago, figure skating articles fell in the xxxx–xx camp.
To focus the discussion, I'm particularly interested in titles of sports articles that have a two consecutive years range in the title. For consistency, I feel all these articles should use the same format, either xxxx–xx or xxxx–xxxx. Currently, from my searches, xxxx–xx is the preferred format. I believe for consistency (and since it's okay with the MOS), the figure skating should be reverted to their original page names. Alternatively, all other pages with this issue (presumably several thousand pages) should be moved to xxxx–xxxx format.<br/>Thus I'm asking everyone what format should be used? Thank you all, [[User:15zulu|15zulu]] ([[User talk:15zulu|talk]]) 00:01, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
:: Edited above to correct number of pages moved. Initially I counted the number of lines in user contributions which lists each page moved as two contributions. So total number of pages moved was 249. Sorry for any confusion, [[User:15zulu|15zulu]] ([[User talk:15zulu|talk]]) 04:37, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
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