Talk:David J. Barron

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On 17 July 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved from David Barron (judge) to David J. Barron. The result of the discussion was moved.

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Requested move 17 July 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: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jack Frost (talk) 00:49, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

David Barron (judge) → David J. Barron – Prior move was never discussed. Seems to meet both WP:COMMONNAME and WP:OFFICIAL per such references at: https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/david-j-barron and https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10046/Barron. No disambiguation would needed as there are no other "David J. Barron" pages Snickers2686 (talk) 22:46, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:NATURALDIS. I have no objection to removing less commonly used middle named or initials where this does not require addition of a disambiguator, but in this case there are plenty of sources that use the "J.", and none that use a parenthetical. BD2412 T 05:14, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nomination and BD2412. The judge is indeed most commonly referenced with the middle initial. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 09:01, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support per the above. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 18:46, 18 July 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.

Which is it?

I’m confused and maybe mistaken. But it appears at the beginning of the article that he is said to be known for writing a controversial memo JUSTIFYING drone use to kill enemy combatants but later it says he co-wrote a memo (or whatever) that was AGAINST this action.

Did he somehow write a document FOR the use of Drones to kill on the battlefield AND ALSO write a document against it?

My first thought is that a word got removed by accident, changing the meaning. Sorry if I missed something but I just wanted to make sure this was right and say that it is perhaps unclear as written. Intelligentguest (talk) 12:34, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]