Talk:Mike Macdonald

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On 8 February 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from Mike Macdonald (American football) to Mike Macdonald. The result of the discussion was moved.

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Head Coach for the Seattle Seahawks

He left Baltimore for the Seattle Seahawks for a 6 year deal. 2601:601:1900:C6F0:852D:794B:67B9:C416 (talk) 21:29, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do we have an official announcement? Most sources^[1]^[2] are still getting the claim from "multiple reports" and "anonymous sources", so I don't think that we're quite there yet. Thriftycat ^{Talk • Contribs} 21:44, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Henderson, Brady (31 January 2024). "Sources: Seahawks hiring Ravens DC Mike Macdonald as coach". ESPN. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
^ Simmons, Myles (31 January 2024). "Seahawks to hire Mike Macdonald as head coach". NBC Sports. Retrieved 31 January 2024.

Semi-protected edit request on 1 February 2024

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I would like permission to edit his because there are some things I’d like to edit MagicJordan23 (talk) 00:12, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. Cannolis (talk) 00:36, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 8 February 2024

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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – Hilst [talk] 21:48, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mike Macdonald (American football) → Mike Macdonald – Only person with the name without a capital D. A hat note should be sufficient to differentiate. Esolo5002 (talk) 16:55, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I don't think the lack of a capital letter in a name is anywhere near sufficient disambiguation. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:10, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject National Football League has been notified of this discussion. -- ZooBlazer 02:13, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support, not because of the spelling, but rather he is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC compared to the other Mike/Michael MacDonalds' viewership over the past year—1000 views/day vs 50 or less for each of the others.[1]—Bagumba (talk) 04:10, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Bagumba. That trend will increase now that Macdonald has been hired as an NFL head coach. Cbl62 (talk) 02:59, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. No primary topic and lack of ambiguity is always best. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:34, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No primary topic: Would it need 10,000 views/day, not just its current 1,000/day? —Bagumba (talk) 17:27, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:NATURALDISAMBIGUATION and WP:SMALLDETAILS. SMALLDETAILS can be applied here to this page since he's the only person without the capital D in his last name. Also this page gets a lot of views compared to the other Mike/Michael MacDonalds'.

Ccai2053 (talk) 17:10, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support as the NFL head coach is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC among persons named Mike/Michael Mac(D/d)onald, and for no other reason. The coach has roughly 20 times the page views of any of the other Michael MacDonalds. I would strongly oppose the move if the only difference was the capitalization of the "d," a capital-vs-small letter in the middle of a surname is not at all unambiguous, commonly used, and clear disambiguation cited in WP:NATURALDISAMBIGUATION, it is common for a user to miscapitalize a subject's name, particularly if there is a possible capital letter in the middle of a name. Frank Anchor 20:37, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

[1] Henderson, Brady (31 January 2024). "Sources: Seahawks hiring Ravens DC Mike Macdonald as coach". ESPN. Retrieved 31 January 2024.

[2] Simmons, Myles (31 January 2024). "Seahawks to hire Mike Macdonald as head coach". NBC Sports. Retrieved 31 January 2024.

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