Talk:Joe Gyau

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The result of the move request was: Move. Cúchullain ^t/c 16:22, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Joseph-Claude Gyau → Joe Gyau – per WP:COMMONNAME.

Here are the results I'm getting via Google.

Joe Gyau – 39,300
Joseph Gyau – 35,200
Joseph-Claude Gyau – 14,500

People rarely use Google hits to decide whether or not a certain page should be moved, but looking at the results, I think this page should be moved. Of course I'm not allowed to support my own move so I'll let you folks decide. – Michael (talk) 22:48, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. – Michael (talk) 22:59, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support - appears to be COMMONNAME. Giant Snowman 08:55, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
oppose - It is best practice to have the article at the fullname and the short one as a redirect to it. The lead could no doubt give his full name them "commonly known as Joe Gyau". Peterkingiron (talk) 20:06, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can you explain why? I mean, ussoccer.com referrers to him as Joe as does the majority of the media sources. – Michael (talk) 22:42, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This just isn't true, what about Alex Ferguson, Bobby Charlton, Sol Campbell and Phil Neville? Their articles are at shortened forms of their full names, because that's what they are best known as. BigDom (talk) 14:31, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This statement appears to have no real basis in WP:NCP or WP:AT; note that Bill Clinton is given as an example at WP:COMMONNAME. --BDD (talk) 19:18, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:COMMONNAME; he is clearly known as Joe more commonly than Joseph-Claude. BigDom (talk) 14:31, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support per BigDom. --BDD (talk) 19:18, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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