Talk:John Campbell Smith

Requested move 27 March 2015

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The result of the move request was: Not moved (non-admin closure) — Amakuru (talk) 10:36, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

John Campbell Smith → John Smith (British writer) – as per results of: ("John Smith" OR "John Campbell Smith") (1828–1914) "Wellfield" Greg Kaye 19:45, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. In this instance, "Campbell Smith" appears to be used as a double barreled surname, not a middle name and surname, so removing the "Campbell" would be like taking a person name "John Smith" and naming their article "John Ith" for convenience. bd2412 T 13:21, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose many of the people listed at John Smith are professionally published, many of those who are so published are British. "John Smith" is an exceedingly common name. For instance, we have a John Smith (English poet), who survived the Act of Union, so is therefore also British; are you saying poets and playwrights are not writers? Or the British novelist John Frederick Smith is not a writer? etc ; the proposed title should redirect to the disambiguation page, instead of having any article residing at that location. -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 03:52, 1 April 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.