Talk:Sarasota metropolitan area

message: FYI: There is an ongoing discussion at WP:CFD regarding the names of categories for certain US metropolitan areas, including this one. See Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013 March 4#Metropolitan areas in the United States. --Orlady (talk) 17:07, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: CFD for category related to this article

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Lafayette-Opelousas-Morgan City, LA Combined Statistical Area which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 23:47, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: :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: not moved. per discussion consensus. Further name iterations should probably get overall discussion before opening a new RM about them, as pre-gathering consensus will help predict a successful RM. It's better to narrow your choices, but it's clear this probably isn't the one.— Shibbolethink (♔ ♕) 22:50, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Sarasota metropolitan area →  — North Port is a significant part of this area. The Office of Management and Budget named this area “North Port-Sarasota, FL Combined Statistical Area.” RealIK17 (talk) 16:36, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

text: Also, please read the section above titled "Name change". When I started this article 15 years ago I named it "Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area", using the OMB name. Two-and-a-half years later it was moved to "Sarasota-Bradenton-Punta Gorda, FL Combined Statistical Area", and nine minutes later, to "Sarasota-Bradenton-Punta Gorda, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area". The next month it was moved to "Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area". In May 2011, the article was moved to "North Port–Bradenton–Sarasota, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area". In March 2013 it was moved to "North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area", and in August 2013 simplified to "North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton metropolitan area", and later the same day, to "Sarasota metropolitan area". Four days later the article was moved back to "North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area", and half-an-hour later returned to "Sarasota metropolitan area". The page title has been stable since then. Note that the OMB changed the name of the MSA four times between 2006 and 2013. I think that is a good reason to avoid the OMB names in WP article titles, and use names that reflect common usage (:WP:COMMONNAME). - Donald Albury 20:32, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

text: *Comment I think the name of the Article should stay in the form , as do most of the articles about metro areas in Florida. I prefer  to  because Sarasota fits the role of "central city" better than North Port does. I think either  or  would be better than , although not my first preference. - Donald Albury 18:43, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

text: *:Is there any examples of a central city being used? I know I have tried to find similar article naming in the past but it seems it depends on a case by case basis. I do agree with it being central to the area - Bradenton is north and North Port is somewhat southeast. – The Grid (talk)  16:46, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: In Florida, there are :Gainesville metropolitan area, Florida, :Jacksonville metropolitan area, Florida, :Miami metropolitan area, :Pensacola metropolitan area, and :Tallahassee metropolitan area. The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford MSA is at :Greater Orlando (although the first name in the text is "Orlando metropolitan area"). The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater MSA is at :Tampa Bay area. :Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area and Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin metropolitan area use all three central city names. Single county MSAs in Florida have been redirected to their respective county articles. So, for Florida, there are six articles (counting this one) with a single central city in the article name, and four articles with various other forms, including two using the names of all three central cities named by the OMB. I will note that for four of the articles in Florida using a single central city name, that city is the only one named by the OMB for the MSA. On consideration, I can live with calling the article . - Donald Albury 01:51, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I now see that the North Port-Sarasota Combined Statistical Area, suggested as the name for this article by , is defined by the OMB to include the Punta Gorda Metropolitan Statistical Area (Charlotte County) and the Arcadia, FL Micropolitan Statistical Area (DeSoto County) as well as the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota MSA. - Donald Albury 20:54, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 21 August 2021