Talk:2021 Rugby World Cup

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Name

The article should be moved back to 2021 Rugby World Cup. The tournament is still called 2021 Rugby World Cup at this moment. See also 2020 Summer Olympics and UEFA Euro 2020 for tournaments that got postponed by a year but retained their name. --Scitix (talk) 22:58, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Agree, should only be moved by WP:CONSENSUS from a WP:RM. No evidence so far as I can see that they've rebranded it as the 2022 Rugby World Cup. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:34, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Display of pool results

The legend to the colour coding includes "Advanced to the quarter-finals as one of the top two teams in a pool" and "Advanced to the quarter-finals as one of the two best third place teams". But those colours are being used before the indicated team is known to be in one of these categories. EITHER the colour should not be used in the table until that is the case OR the meaning should be better explained "... would progress if finished in this position". S C Cheese (talk) 18:36, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Explanatory comment added to article. S C Cheese (talk) 17:39, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Info panel incorrect links

The links to national rugby union teams on the info panel all go to the men's teams, even though women's team pages do exist. This needs sorting but it's not transparent to me how to do so for these infopanels. 2A00:23C7:A88C:A101:7121:DF5B:8027:882D (talk) 19:25, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

This is an issue with {{Infobox Rugby World Cup}} which is hard-coded to produce links to the men's teams. Nthep (talk) 19:41, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 24 August 2025

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. (non-admin closure) veko. (user | talk | contribs) he/him 16:42, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

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2021 Rugby World Cup → 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup2021 Women's Rugby World Cup – World Rugby's decision to remove the "women's" descriptor from the tournament clearly didn't work, as they've reverted back to using the branding for 2025. This is proof enough that it didn't get adopted as the WP:COMMONNAME of the event. ViperSnake151  Talk  17:09, 24 August 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 00:42, 1 September 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath^talk 05:43, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Oppose - World Rugby's decision to add "Women's" back for 2025 is irrelevent and doesn't change the common name of an event held 3 years ago, at the time the common name was "2021 Rugby World Cup". If we go by this logic, all Men's world cup's held from 1987 to 2023 will need to have "Men's" added to the title because from 2027 World Rugby will add the "Men's" descriptor will be added.

If you can come up with better reasoning other than "they added it back for the next tournement", I wouldn't be against the move. However I still think the lead should be kept as what it is currently as it explains the official name "2021 Rugby World Cup" and then goes on to say "the ninth staging of the Women's Rugby World Cup". Louis (talk) (contribs) 17:28, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

• Support per nom and clarity. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:46, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
• Support per WP:CONSISTENCY with all the other Women's Rugby World Cup articles. Traumnovelle (talk) 02:52, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Oppose per Louis. We don't base what we call a 2021 event based on what a 2025 event is called, we base it on the common name of the 2021 event. And I've not seen any proof yet that the proposed title is the common name. Turnagra (talk) 06:55, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Oppose per Louis Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 20:26, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Women's sport, Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board, and WikiProject Rugby union have been notified of this discussion. TarnishedPath^talk 05:44, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose per Louis & Turnagra. It doesn't make much sense to me to change the common name of past events, based on changes to future events, unless we are to retrospectively do it to all past World Cups and add "Men's" to the names of those respective competitions too back to 1987. Nil🥝 06:05, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

  All the other Women's Rugby World Cups are already titled 'XXXX Women's Rugby World Cup', this would just bring this one title in line with the rest. Traumnovelle (talk) 06:11, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

  Oppose The tournament was officially called the 2021 Rugby World Cup so there is no need to change it. ILoveSport2006 (talk) 19:35, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

• Support per Traumnovelle, keep it consistent with previous events. Also, it won’t confuse readers between the men’s World Cup.

Kidsoljah (talk) 08:24, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Oppose if only to put this to bed; WR called it something and we should match that. Just because they changed back after one iteration doesn't mean we pretend it didn't happen. As indicated by the nomination there is a redirect which will point people looking for the women's tournament to this article. Primefac (talk) 18:16, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

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