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Moved, 4 February 2021, to Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, see discussion.
No consensus, 3 April 2025, to Capitol Hill Organized Protest, see discussion.

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@StAnselm: At the time of the closure of the move discussion, consensus seemed to be in favor of the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest title. However, in the section below it, two out of the three editors who had replied to the move request in support made the case for instead using the Capitol Hill Organized Protest title. In the move discussion, no argument was made that would support the use of the former title over the latter. Therefore, I think that consensus would support a move of this article to Capitol Hill Organized Protest. –Gluonz^{talk contribs} 17:14, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, you would need to start a new move discussion per WP:RM. St Anselm (talk) 05:46, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Would be nice to get it back to CHAZ (what it started as...who has the street sign that was hoisted up? that would be nice to have and kept safe somewhere for the city) anyway, it was rebranded CHOP when the media et al started to show up in real numbers. It's a shame. Gusbenz (talk) 16:33, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox?

Why on Earth do we have an infobox on this self-declared "zone" which lasted for less than thirty days and was never regarded as a government by anybody but some of its participants? Orange Mike | Talk 14:07, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps we should use Template:Infobox civil conflict? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:10, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 3 April 2025

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: no consensus. (non-admin closure) – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 20:59, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Capitol Hill Occupied Protest → Capitol Hill Organized Protest – Per my rationale in the #Consensus for title section above. –Gluonz^{talk contribs} 19:28, 3 April 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 06:46, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Per nom. Yue🌙 20:57, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support per recent news articles. [1][2] St Anselm (talk) 22:34, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I'm not from North America, so my opinion on this should be understood as an outsider's perspective. The common name for this that I have seen consistently reported across sources has been "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone", not either of the "CHOP" varieties. A Google web search shows 58,400 results for "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone", 11,800 results for "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest" and 7,180 results for "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" (and the latter two barely show up in trending data). To bring in the Google Scholar results: "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" gets 259 results; "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest" gets 84 results; and "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" gets 82 results. Google Books indexing also shows "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" as being far and above the most common of these terms, per the Ngrams data. If anything, it seems to me that the proposed move would be taking this even further away from the most common name. I'd sooner support this article being moved back to "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" than support another name change to an even more obscure term. --Grnrchst (talk) 17:58, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the RM does not persuasively make the case that the proposed name is the WP:COMMONNAME. Maybe it is, but that should be better presented in this RM without requiring us to dig through multiple past discussions. PK-WIKI (talk) 18:48, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.