Talk:Andrew Bowie (politician)

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Requested move 24 May 2019

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: move Andrew Bowie to Andrew Bowie (philosopher), then convert Andrew Bowie into a disambiguation page. (non-admin closure) Steel1943 (talk) 13:04, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

– Even before the MP was elected, the professor was lacking traffic.[1] Unreal7 (talk) 17:45, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Likely WP:RECENTISM. Page views are artificially elevated during and after an election. At best this is NOPRIMARY, but based on long-term significance, the philosopher seems to be primary with WP:ONEOTHER. Give it a few years and we can see how things are. -- Netoholic @ 19:53, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support second move, the politician has clearly been the most sought after article for the past two years since he was elected to parliament, but Oppose first move per arguments made by Netoholic. Probably best to disambiguate and treat this as a WP:NOPRIMARY for now. PC78 (talk) 20:23, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Disambiguate per WP:RECENTISM. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 16:35, 25 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose first, support second. No clear primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:17, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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