Talk:Geoffrey Webb

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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: this page not moved; Geoffrey Webb (professor) moved to Geoff Webb per Necrothesp. There was support for and no opposition to this solution. DrKiernan (talk) 08:39, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

– There are two Geoffrey Webbs. Geoffrey Ian Webb's page was created second and is titled Geoffrey Webb (professor) which does not provide suitable disambiguation from an article on Professor Geoffrey Fairbank Webb Relisted. BDD (talk) 19:51, 4 November 2013 (UTC) Andrea.lester (talk) 21:57, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It would be better to discuss these so you can demonstrate that these gentlemen are commonly referred to with their middle names, if that's the case. Per WP:MIDDLES, middle names should not be used "merely for disambiguation purposes." Titles such as Geoffrey Webb (art historian) and Geoffrey Webb (computer scientist), respectively, may be better. --BDD (talk) 22:45, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Exactly as per User:BDD, encourage User:Andrea.lester to boldly move to the two redlinks BDD suggests, a look in Google Books supports those titles, and no need to fill up WP:RM with a RM proposal which will never pass because of WP:COMMONNAME. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:15, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Move Geoffrey Webb (professor) to Geoff Webb (with a hatnote to the Home and Away character to which that page currently redirects) and add a hatnote on Geoffrey Webb. Job done. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:22, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That would also do it, http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~webb/‎ does seem to be a better alternative. In ictu oculi (talk) 23:31, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. User:Andrea.lester, please do not move pages while an RM discussion about them is in progress. It will be done if need be after the discussion is completed. Thank you. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:10, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.