Talk:James Wood (governor)

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Requested move 16 September 2018

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The result of the move request was: Consensus not to move, therefore, not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 16:41, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

– As I understand it from a comment made in an ongoing RM at Talk:Arthur Brown (Utah senator), Wikipedia generally prefers "([state] politician)" rather than a role-specific disambiguator like "(senator)" or "(governor)". —BarrelProof (talk) 05:56, 16 September 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 16:34, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose both, per WP:CONCISE and WP:PRECISE. No other people with those names were governors. Many other articles use "(governor)" as a qualifier, so WP:CONSISTENT does not apply. The proposed titles would be fine as redirects. Station1 (talk) 06:45, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I have some sympathy with the comment above, but it seems potentially inconsistent with what was described as the general practice on Wikipedia as discussed in several other recent and ongoing RMs – e.g., at Talk:Bob Smith (New Hampshire politician), Talk:John Smith (Ohio politician, died 1824), Talk:Karl Kreibich (senator, 1933-1935), Talk:Finlay MacDonald (politician) and especially Talk:Arthur Brown (Utah senator). I hope that some editors are not just ignoring this discussion because they assume it is uncontroversial so they aren't bothering to come here and see whether there have been any contrary comments. There are currently 237 pages that use "(governor)", 12 pages that use "(Governor)", and 81 others that use other forms of "(*overnor*)" (330 total). Those are not very big numbers. In some cases, "governor" may have been used because "politician" or "[state] politician" would have been ambiguous. —BarrelProof (talk) 01:03, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose making the article titles longer than necessary. WP:CONCISE and WP:PRECISE are very sensible guidelines. Surtsicna (talk) 08:58, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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