A fact from Jack Zink appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 March 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Jack Zink was a mechanical engineer who received 35 patents for combustion equipment inventions, and was noted for his achievements in business, car racing, and philanthropy?
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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. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: moved to Jack Zink. Firstly, there is no guideline (as far as I know) to pre-emptively disambiguate pages. As there is no article on other Jack or John Zinks, there is no need to add a disambiguator. Secondly, WP:NICKNAME implies that the nickname rather than the full name should be used when commoner, i.e. use Bill Clinton rather than William Jefferson Clinton [or Jack Zink instead of John Smith Zink]. DrKiernan (talk) 10:38, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Objection to proposed move This move should not be made because the article's subject was the son of John Steele Zink, who was also a notable person. It is arguable which was more notable. The father founded the renowned John Zink Company, which had a world-wide reputation in the mid 1940s as a leading manufacturer of combustion equipment. He left a sizable fortune to the John Steele Zink Foundation. He also founded the Zink family ranch, which the son later turned into a site for his philanthropic activities. The father may deserve a Wikipedia page in his own right, and I am now collecting information about him. I think renaming the present article as proposed will lead to confusion in the future because of the similarity of names. Bruin2 (talk) 17:26, 24 February 2015 (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.
