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Robb Elementary School shooting → Uvalde school shooting – The common name used when referring to the shooting is the “Uvalde school shooting”, “Uvalde school massacre” “Uvalde elementary school shooting” or something along those lines as opposed to the “Robb Elementary School shooting”. For example, if you search for the shooting on Google, more results show up referring to it as “Uvalde school shooting”, even if you type in “Robb Elementary School shooting”. An example of this being done before is the Parkland high school shooting being moved to its current name from “Stoneman Douglas High School shooting”. MountainDew20 (talk) 02:41, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Support Ordinarily I'd be advocating for WP:NCEVENTS/WP:NCWWW for this type of article, as even a year later it can be difficult to assess whether the WP:NOYEAR exception is met. However over the last day there have been a flurry of sources published after the JoD report was published (BBC, Sky News UK, The Guardian, NBC News, CNN, CBS News, ABC News, AP News), all of which call it either the Uvalde shooting or Uvalde school shooting. As precision and natural disambiguation are important in article titles, Uvalde school shooting seems like the most logical title at this time as it inherently makes this article distinct from any other notable shootings that may have or may in the future have taken place in Uvalde. Sideswipe9th (talk) 02:56, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Support per WP:COMMONNAME. When I saw this on my watchlist right now under the name "Robb Elementary School", I forgot which school shooting it was I had watchlisted. When I saw "Uvalde", it all came to me at once. There is no other Uvalde school shooting to disambiguate from. – Muboshgu (talk) 04:19, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Support entirely per WP:COMMONNAME. I have looked over reports in the past couple of months and it's commonly referred to as the Uvalde school shooting and per Sideswipe9th's references. Kiwiz1338 (talk) 04:37, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Oppose. School shootings typically include the school name in the title. [1] WWGB (talk) 05:37, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  As I have stated, the article for the Parkland high school shooting was renamed to that from “Stoneman Douglas High School shooting” because more people referred to it as the “Parkland shooting” or “Parkland high school shooting” than “Stoneman Douglas High School shooting” or “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting”. The same applies for this shooting as more people refer to it as simply the “Uvalde school shooting” or “Uvalde elementary school shooting” as opposed to the “Robb Elementary School shooting”. MountainDew20 (talk) 08:33, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Support commonname is Uvalde there is virtually no usage of the school name in sources to describe the event. 13:15, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
• Support. Regardless of WP titles for other similar articles (sad isn't it... that there are so many other similar subjects), readers/editors/people at large will simply not come to Wikipedia looking for "Robb Elementary School shooting"... Per WP:CRITERIA's Recognizability & WP:COMMONNAME the town name is absolutely the commonname for this article. Shearonink (talk) 14:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Seems reasonable. If I were to refer to this event I would say "Uvalde", not "Robb Elementary School". ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:14, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Support - Uvalde is so common a way to refer to this that the city's name virtually needs to be disambiguated. When I hear Uvalde, I think school shooting, not a town in Texas. 4.37.252.50 (talk) 20:31, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Support – WP:COMMONNAME Garnet Moss (talk) 01:45, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]