Talk:Mason Durie (psychiatrist)

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Requested move

The following discussion is an archived 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 to Mason Durie (psychiatrist) and Mason Durie (community leader). Jafeluv (talk) 07:32, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

– Mason Durie's grandfather, John Mason Durie, was also known as Mason Durie (according to his DNZB entry). The purpose of this discussion is to find the most appropriate disambiguators. Schwede 66 22:10, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be inclined to use dates of birth and death: Mason Durie (1889–1971) and Mason Durie (1938–). Note that Durie and Mason Durie disambiguation pages should also be created. I take full responsibility for naming of John Mason Durie, as I created it. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:38, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No, that is not how to disambiguate people. I quote the relevant passages from the naming conventions: "The disambiguator is usually a noun indicating what the person is noted for being. ... Years of birth and death are not normally used as disambiguators (readers are more likely to be seeking this information than to already know it) although this may be necessary when there are multiple people with the same name and tag". A New Zealand example for such a case is George Hunter (politician, born 1859) and George Hunter (politician, born 1821), but the third one, George Hunter (mayor), has a different dab altogether and thus doesn't need the birth year. Schwede 66 23:33, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Move to Mason Durie (psychiatrist). Better to use specific title rather than the woolly "academic". -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:56, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good suggestion. Schwede 66 17:33, 23 August 2012 (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.