Talk:William Francis Thompson (biologist)

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On 19 August 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from William Francis Thompson to William Francis Thompson (biologist). The result of the discussion was moved.

Requested move 19 August 2024

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) BilledMammal (talk) 13:39, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

– or William Francis Thompson (ichthyologist) or William Francis Thompson (fisheries scientist) for the first one, or William Francis Thompson (magistrate), William Francis Thompson (civil servant) or William Francis Thompson (writer) for the second one. The William Francis Thompson who was born in 1810 was also a published poet, so William Thompson (poet) is arguably WP:incomplete disambiguation unless we assume consistency over whether "Francis" would always be included. There is also William Francis Kynaston Thompson, although his name seems to always include a "K." or "Kynaston". None of these three articles gets more than one page view per day (shown here), so it's hard to consider the 20th-century biologist really dominant over the 19th-century philologist. Wikipedia doesn't ordinarily use lifespan ranges for disambiguation of people. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:01, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:21, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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.