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Greatest wrestler wwf ever knew also I saw him kissing golga once —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.147.92.9 (talk) 14:37, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Title

Why should the page title be "Kurrgan" and not his real name???? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.162.17.145 (talk) 22:59, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good question! Several reasons, see our policy on article titles. Generally we avoid phrases such as real name and correct spelling as they look objective, but in practice English is a dynamic language and there are no such rules. So instead we follow usage as a general rule, and avoid linguistic prescription as being out of date.

And there are other important considerations for biographies of living persons. There's a lot going on!

Note also that there is a redirect from his real name, so the consequences of the article title being different are greatly lessened.

See the requested move below for some more discussion. But a I said, good question. Hope to see more of you here. Andrewa (talk) 18:23, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:38, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kurrgan → Robert Maillet – I agree with the IP above. Maillet's acting career is giving him increasing exposure beyond his identity as Kurrgan; compare Google results of "Robert Maillet" -wikipedia and Kurrgan -wikipedia. With his wrestling career behind him, this dynamic is only going to increase as he continues to act. --Relisted. —Darkwind (talk) 01:56, 29 September 2013 (UTC) BDD (talk) 19:26, 17 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Still more famous as a giant wrestler than actor or private figure. InedibleHulk (talk) 20:35, 20 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. If and when he is demonstrably more famous as an actor, then we move the article, not before, no matter how obvious it seems to be that this dynamic is only going to increase. Andrewa (talk) 18:08, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Support (change of vote) in view of evidence provided below by Cuchullain and IIO. Note that this is a significantly different argument to that in the original proposal. Andrewa (talk) 07:11, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support. At this point it appears more sources refer to him by his real name than as Kurrgan, and that trend is likely to continue. I'm getting 2013 hits in the Google News archives for "Robert Maillet", which mostly seem to be relevant, compared to 77 for Kurrgan. As more source appear it is likely they'll continue to use this name.--Cúchullain ^t/c 19:30, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support - sorry @InedibleHulk: and @Andrewa:, no crystal ball needed, the usage in print sources Google Books has already tipped markedly to real name (around 100 hits) and only 1 hit for wrestler name which uses real name first. I suppose this is a product of screen fights with Gerard Butler and Robert Downey being more notable to books than TV wrestling. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:18, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- No apology required, just evidence and valid arguments based on it. Thank you! See above for change of vote. Andrewa (talk) 07:11, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

As a professional wrestler, hasn't he really been an actor all along? (;-> Andrewa (talk) 18:27, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wrong birthplace

Maillet was born in Georgetown, Ontario, not Saint-Marie-Du-Kent, as shown by his personal Facebook page. "It was great to return to the town I was born. First time I've been in Georgetown since my parents returned to the Maritimes when I was less than a year old." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.218.173.161 (talk) 03:45, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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