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Does anyone know where the name 'sparta prague' comes from, and in particular, why it contains a reference to an ancient Greek city state?

  • Yes, the creators of Sparta were inspired with the "fighting spirit" of this ancient Greek city (I´ve entered it to the "Symbol section". Szalas

Consonants with diatrics

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Sorry, I seem to have replaced the shs and zhs with "?"s in the creation of the Poborsky link. Apologies.

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was Move. Despite the appeals to officialdom, the WP(NC) is fairly clear on the issue. Duja 13:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]


AC Sparta PrahaSparta Prague — The common usage in English is Sparta Prague, it even states this in the article. See English language media such as BBC [1], ESPN [2]John Hayestalk 12:43, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Sports teams has stated clearly:

Sports teams

This is the English language Wikipedia so generally the regular English name should be used. For example, use Bayern Munich rather than FC Bayern München, Red Star Belgrade rather than Crvena Zvezda and so on. Note the English name is not always the 'authentic' name used on the club crest and so on. For example, Sporting Clube de Portugal are always called Sporting Lisbon in the English-speaking world.

That's why this article should be named Sparta Prague. --supernorton 04:25, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 2

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The result of the debate was no consensus for the move --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 17:38, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sparta PragueAC Sparta Praha — Since the above Requested Move was completed, the naming conventions for sports teams have changed. The conventions state that, where a club's website has an English language section, the name used on said website should be used, provided that that name has been adopted at least by a significant section of the English-language media (as determined by number of hits on Google News) and it is recognisable and it is not easily confused with other clubs' names. Sparta Praha's English language website is located at http://www.sparta.cz/en/, and lists the club's name as "AC Sparta Praha". This is not very different from "Sparta Prague", which most people would recognise, and the name is not easily confused with other clubs' names as it is differentiated from all other clubs called "Sparta" by having the name of their home city in the title. Furthermore, there are no other clubs in Prague called Sparta. Finally, although "Sparta Prague" is still the predominant name used in the media (88 GNhits to 12 GNhits for "Sparta Praha"), "Sparta Praha" has been adopted by such websites as Goal.com and UEFA.com, as well as being used in World Soccer Magazine. — PeeJay 18:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Fair use rationale for Image:Sparta-Slavia.jpg

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Image:Sparta-Slavia.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:26, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 3

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The result of the move request was: Move to AC Sparta Prague. Jafeluv (talk) 21:09, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]


Sparta PragueAC Sparta PragueRelisted. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:04, 24 August 2010 (UTC) English name, move over redirect. All the other Czech teams (possible exception Slavia) have their initials (SK, FK, FC, AC...) with their team name. Keeping it as Sparta Prague would be like having the Manchester United F.C. page simply called "Manchester United". Cloudz679 (talk) 14:41, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it should be "Manchester United" as far as I'm concerned. I'm not familiar with Sparta Prague, though, so I won't comment on that. Powers T 20:05, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - AC Sparta Prague seems OK; it is slightly strange, as it's a combination of Czech initials and English name, but FC Bayern Munich provides precedence for this. I would not support a move back to AC Sparta Praha, however. That is not the common name in English.  — Amakuru (talk) 21:52, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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