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Requested move 9 March 2021

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: Consensus to move article to Caddie (historical occupation)(non-admin closure) Fredlesaltique (talk) 08:50, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Caddie (18th-century Edinburgh) → Caddie (1700s) – Per WP:CONCISE, changing this strange parenthetical ["(18thC Edinburgh)"] to a date for disambiguation. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 15:11, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Just moved it from that really-strange parenthetical "Caddie (18thC Edinburgh)" to "Caddie (18th-century Edinburgh)". No matter the result of the discussion, the previous parenthetical was honestly a mess. Discussion can continue as normal, though. Paintspot Infez (talk) 18:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I think "Caddie (18th century)" might be better than "Caddie (1700s)", as "1700s" is ambiguous could either refer to the century or the decade. Paintspot Infez (talk) 18:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No objection to that. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 19:17, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose the proposed form — caddies were not "1700s" — but would support addition of "occupation": Caddie (18th-century Edinburgh) → Caddie (1700s occupation) and would also support, consensus permitting, other forms, such as Caddie (1700s Edinburgh occupation), Caddie (1700s Scottish occupation) or even, returning to the current form, Caddie (18th-century Edinburgh occupation). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:19, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hold on IP are you certain that Caddie had no other meaning anywhere in 1700s? In ictu oculi (talk) 13:49, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing on Wikipedia that I can see. Caddie in the modern (golf) sense originated in the mid-1800s, according to this. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 15:45, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support Caddie (18th-century Edinburgh occupation). The disambiguator needs to actually mean something to the reader. I would look at the proposed disambiguator and think it referred to 18th-century tea tins! -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:53, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The guidelines on qualifiers recommend that "when a more detailed title is necessary to distinguish an article topic from another, use only as much additional detail as necessary". What about something like Caddie (historical occupation)? Fredlesaltique (talk) 02:13, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
This is probably the best one. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 03:10, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would likewise support Caddie (historical occupation). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 05:07, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me too. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:32, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Glad I popped in; I knew nothing of caddies before. I'll go ahead and close the discussion and move the article, since it looks like we've reached consensus. Cheers, Fredlesaltique (talk) 08:44, 21 March 2021 (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.