Talk:Van Diemen's Land

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Van Diemen's Land was renamed to Tasmania in 1856, which is about a good 166 years ago – it has been called "Tasmania" longer than it has been called "Van Diemen's Land". Its usage still lingers around a bit, but almost never used in a travel context. -- SHB2000 (talk &#124; contribs &#124; meta.wikimedia) 22:38, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is not a guide for time travellers. This is not a search term modern travellers are going to use. Ground Zero (talk) 22:52, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per others. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 22:58, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete We have Van Diemen's Land Tour, so maybe a sentence should be added to its Understand to cover the occasional reader using an 1850 atlas. AlasdairW (talk) 23:15, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't see the harm. Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:06, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep Redirects are cheap to and there's a U2 song with the name, so I could see someone searching. Why make it harder to find? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:07, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep – harmless and potentially useful. —Granger (talk · contribs) 15:39, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Per the policy, "As a general rule, redirect pages should not be deleted". Nurg (talk) 00:27, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Pashley (talk) 04:48, 17 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep as it does no harm. Tai123.123 (talk) 06:27, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Weak keep if the name is still occasionally used and it was the original name then its probably a valid redirect. Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:33, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Outcome: Kept per consensus. Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:15, 16 April 2022 (UTC)