Talk:AIM-174B

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It has been proposed in this section that AIM-174B be renamed and moved to AIM-174. A bot will list this discussion on the requested moves current discussions subpage within an hour of this tag being placed. The discussion may be closed 7 days after being opened, if consensus has been reached (see the closing instructions). Please base arguments on article title policy, and keep discussion succinct and civil. Please use {{subst:requested move}}. Do not use {{requested move/dated}} directly. Links: current log • target log • direct move

AIM-174B → AIM-174 – Might as well eliminitae the "B" per WP:CONCISE -- the "AIM-174B" is *technically* a specific variant of the AIM-174. Also allows for future variants (a hypothetical AIM-174C, for instance) to be added with no issue. Attempted to move myself, cannot; re-direct exists. MWFwiki (talk) 00:44, 20 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. RodRabelo7 (talk) 01:33, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• This seems more than reasonable given there are no unrelated variants that "AIM-174" would include. -Fnlayson (talk) 21:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• It's probably a harmless change, but also unnecessary because as far as I'm aware we don't know of any other variants that specifically use the AIM-174 nomenclature for the prefix (I'm specifying to exclude the captive carry and experimental trainers, for which we don't typically make a separate article and are at best a single-sentence mention in the main article). Put another way, until such time as future variants exist, any reference to the AIM-174 is almost certainly a reference to the AIM-174B specifically. So while I don't really care either way regarding the move, all things being equal I probably would just leave the page as-is for now until such variants exist. Put another way, WP:PRECISE is as important as WP:CONCISE, and we're not a WP:CRYSTALBALL. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 22:56, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Well, I'd say we are indeed getting into WP:CRYSTALBALL territory when we're assuming what variants will or won't be put into service, which one(s) will emerge as the primary variant, etc; That being said, a reasonable assumption and preparation is that variants will almost certainly be added. Point being, we aren't assuming or predicting anything with "AIM-174..." we are with "AIM-174B." There is nothing imprecise about "AIM-174," either… no one is confused by it nor does it impede locating the article. There is also little to no WP justification for the 'B' variant — even as the only known operational variant — subsuming the article title. Especially not when the "AIM-174B" will be mentioned in the intro/lead, in boldface, and we could even move it up. MWFwiki (talk) 02:20, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]