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The following discussion is an archived 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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Page moved per consensus. Bbb23 (talk) 19:20, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]



Paul Chapman (footballer, born 1981)Paul Chapman (footballer) – Move back to the original title. A Welsh association footballer with the same name exists, but is yet to have an article. Not a good reason to disambiguate further. And perhaps the mover of the page should in future check which sport the subject of the article plays before citing the guidelines of an unrelated WikiProject. IgnorantArmies 13:56, 27 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • Paul Chapman (Australian footballer) is my preference, as per the discussion from 3 years ago, that didn't really achieve consensus. I would bet that NO ONE would know what year the two players were born in, but everyone interested in these two players would know them by occupation (footballer) and nationality, so despite the interesting guideline change to (footballer, born XXXX), I will be WP:IAR and sticking with (footballer) if there are no other footballers of any code, of any nationality; (Australian footballer) if there exists a non-Australian of the same name who plays any football code; and (Australian rules footballer) if there is another Australian who plays a different code of football. Birth year only comes in to consideration after that. Incidentally, until this page move, we had 100% of the pages needing birth year located at "born XXXX", and none at ", born XXX". So, no, I won't be moving or complying with the comma recommendation, as it is unnecessary and goes against the conciseness provision of the naming convention guideline. The-Pope (talk) 14:41, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.