Talk:Jay Switzer (chemist)

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Requested move 30 January 2018

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: move. (non-admin closure) feminist (talk) 07:32, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Jay Switzer → Jay Switzer (chemist)
Jay Switzer (broadcaster) → Jay Switzer

– The Canadian Jay Switzer (former broadcasting CEO, Member of the Order of Canada, etc.) is a fairly clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for this name, as witness the fact that somebody erroneously edited the chemist's article today to reflect the broadcaster's death — their lack of attention to what they were actually doing, while a bit silly, is entirely understandable because the broadcaster really is such an obvious primary topic that virtually nobody would expect the title to ever contain somebody else entirely. (And, in fact, the chemist's article is so poorly sourced that it's technically deletion bait.) I could also accept a WP:TWODABS situation with the disambiguation page located at the plain title if absolutely necessary, but the American chemist is certainly not more notable than the Canadian broadcasting executive. Bearcat (talk) 04:04, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support WP:TWODABS if the chemist is kept, the broadcaster did not even have an article until he died so i don't think him as a primary target is suitable at this time. GuzzyG (talk) 08:06, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

When an article gets created is not relevant to whether a person has a valid primary topic claim or not. People who are notable primarily as corporate executives very often slip through the cracks on here — typically, if they haven't tried to WP:COI themselves into Wikipedia, corporate CEOs frequently don't actually get created until the burst of media coverage that accompanies their deaths, precisely because the role isn't as visible to the general public as the local television meterologists and reporters who Wikipedians conversely have a habit of overcovering. So the datestamp on the page creations is not determinative of who's the primary topic and who isn't: the notability claim and its sourceability determine that, not the timing of when the articles got created relative to each other. Bearcat (talk) 18:09, 2 February 2018 (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.