Talk:7 Aban Front

Requested move: Rename to "The 7 Aban Front"

I request that this page be renamed from "7 Ābān Front" to "The 7 Aban Front".

• “The 7 Aban Front” is the official name of the organization, as used by the group itself and in multiple reliable secondary sources.
• The definite article “The” is part of the proper name and appears consistently in English-language publications.
• The move improves accuracy and follows English naming conventions for organizations.

Therefore, I request that an administrator or an editor with page-moving rights perform this move.

Mortezaa5 (talk) 18:15, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Requested move 2 December 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: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vestrian24Bio 12:59, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

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7 Ābān Front → The 7 Aban FrontThe 7 Aban Front – The official English name includes the definite article “The”, supported by reliable sources. Mortezaa5 (talk) 16:18, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink).

First, according to WP:COMMONNAME, articles are named based on reliable sources independent of the subject; official sources are usually not given any preferential treatment when evaluating how to title an article.

Second, WP:THE essentially says that article titles omit "the" unless a preponderance of sources say otherwise.

With these two guidelines in mind, usage in sources are as follows:

• "Iran's hidden empire" - The Jerusalem Post (2024-11-10): organizations like the 7 Aban Front (Solidarity for Iran's liberation) named after the Persian seventh day of the month Aban or Cyrus Day
• "IRGC was involved in Oct. 7 horror, 'Haaretz' repeats IRGC propaganda of Prince Pahlavi" - The Jerusalem Post via MSN News (2025): the dissident movement 7 Aban Front in Iran
• "The Iranian Struggle for Freedom: A Call for Global Solidarity" joint statement by Freedom House (2023-02-01): Solidarity for the Liberation of Iran (7 Aban Front)
• "Iran Crisis Update, December 22" Iran Update. American Enterprise Institute's Critical Threats Project and the Institute for the Study of War (2022): a group called the Seventh of Aban Front
• "The Fractured Opposition to the Islamic Regime" - The Washington Institute: The "Solidarity for the Freedom of Iran," or Haft Aban Front, in Brussels

DuckDuckGo returns no results when searching with the diacritic (-wikipedia "Ābān front"). The page title should probably be 7 Aban Front instead. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 17:24, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

• Move to 7 Aban Front per Rotideypoc41352. DankJae 17:56, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I agree with the above comments. After reviewing the sources, I withdraw my previous request for the title "The 7 Aban Front" and support moving the article to **7 Aban Front**, which is the most common form used in reliable English-language sources.

Thank you. Mortezaa5 (talk) 14:07, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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