Talk:Arthur Barnett (businessman)

A fact from Arthur Barnett (businessman) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 August 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Arthur Barnett founded a department store that was to become the most successful in the Otago Region?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/August.

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Arthur Barnett (businessman)

Promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk): Template talk:Did you know/Arthur Barnett

Requested move

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: Not moved Mike Cline (talk) 17:46, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Barnett (businessman) → Arthur Barnett – Arthur Barnett is the founder of the Dunedin-based department store. The existing Arthur Barnett page is simply a disambiguation page unnecessarily separating Arthur Barnett from Arthur Barnett Ltd. Any confusion between the two can be remedied easily by editing Arthur Barnett to say 'Arthur Barnett was the founder of [link]the eponymous Dunedin-based department store. pear 06:33, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Oppose In terms of Wikipedia guidelines, what you are suggesting here is that the founder is the primary topic. I would suggest that if anything, the department store is much better known than its founder. Have a look at Wikipedia page views, and you'll see what I mean. Schwede 66 09:44, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the store is the better move candidate. -- 76.65.128.252 (talk) 23:11, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
If someone can find out his middle name/initial, Mr B's page could simply be titled Arthur [] Barnett, and the store Arthur Barnett.

pear 08:56, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

No, that's not how names are disambiguated. It says in the naming conventions that "adding middle names, or their abbreviations, merely for disambiguation purposes (if that format of the name is not commonly used to refer to the person) is not advised." Schwede 66 09:29, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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