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Ignoring the fact that "The Paraguayan War" is an inaccurate, partisan and biased label; most historical texts name this conflict as the "War of the Triple Alliance", not The Paraguayan War. Guarandu (talk) 05:38, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This has been discussed before very thoroughly.Ttocserp 07:26, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It wasn't so much discussed, more a case of a concerted effort by a number of Brazilian editors to impose a name used in Brazil but which is in minority use elsewhere. The predominant name in the English language is the War of the Triple Alliance. WCMemail 12:53, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's the far more common name in English, ESPECIALLY if you only count articles written before this page changed.
Paraguayan War is the dominant name in Portuguese, not English. And as other editors have pointed out there's evidence the previous name change was somewhat brigaded 2604:3D09:1F80:CA00:ACAC:6FC7:C632:32DE (talk) 21:30, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]