Talk:Charles Lawrence (mathematician)

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Confusion

This article is contradicting, because it says he was born in 1856, so how could he still be alive and teaching? Tinton5 (talk) 05:14, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This was copied from another article; the lede appears valid. Removing the disputed tag unless there is anything else. VQuakr (talk) 05:26, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 04 September 2013

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no consensus. --BDD (talk) 16:55, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Lawrence (mathematician) → Charles E. Lawrence – He publishes in academic articles as "Charles E. Lawrence". This proposed page name is not already in use, thus the "(mathematician)" label would no longer be required. Relisted. Favonian (talk) 18:28, 11 September 2013 (UTC). 216.66.5.53 (talk) 16:34, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Survey

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Oppose see his webpage at Brown In ictu oculi (talk) 00:21, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Re-stating my support: His web pages have him as "Charles Lawrence" and I agree that that would be better than "Charles E. Lawrence", except that the former is not available for this article. I made the proposal because I think "Charles E. Lawrence" is better than "Charles Lawrence (mathematician)", even though neither is the "Charles Lawrence" that he uses on his web pages. 216.66.5.53 (talk) 18:10, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

For example, Richard M. Karp is better known as "Richard Karp" (e.g., see here) but the Wikipedia article about him uses the former title to distinguish him from Richard A. Karp. 216.66.5.53 (talk) 18:37, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes well, that's a balance on WP:COMMONNAME that has to be struck on a case by case basis. Looking at Google Books, Richard Karp is probably WP:COMMONNAME for both. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:00, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the pointer to WP:COMMONNAME. Within the same article is the WP:NATURALDIS section, which argues that a "natural disambiguation" is preferred over a "parenthetical disambiguation" when the former is feasible. Perhaps this debate thus devolves to whether "Charles E. Lawrence" is in common enough use. Given that that is the name he uses in his publications, I would argue that it is. 216.66.5.53 (talk) 11:33, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - "Charles Lawrence" mathematics gets too much noise, but try substituting "biometrics" and other related topics and on some terms overtakes 6 hits for "Charles E. Lawrence" biometrics etc. If book titles and biblio are excluded (as they should be), and just in-running-text refs counted, then he is frequently known as "Charles Lawrence" without the E. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:18, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is no disagreement about whether "Charles Lawrence" would be better than "Charles E. Lawrence". It is; unfortunately it is not available for this article's title. The exact string "Charles Lawrence (mathematician)" yields pretty much only the Wikipedia article. The exact string "Charles E. Lawrence" gives pages at his institution (Brown University) and at citation services. 216.66.5.53 (talk) 16:24, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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