Talk:Ras Baraka

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Requested move 9 May 2018

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Move. Cúchullain ^t/c 14:05, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ras J. Baraka → Ras Baraka – WP:COMMONNAME. "Ras Baraka" returns nearly 59k google results to 27k for "Ras J. Baraka." Although he self-identifies with his middle initial (like on Twitter Ras J. Baraka @RasJBaraka), media outlets generally avoid using it, such as The Star-Ledger in his hometown Newark, New Jersey [1], News 12 New Jersey [2], and WNYC radio [3]. Even The New York Times, whose articles about national politics are notorious for using super-formal "First M. Last" names, uses simply "Ras Baraka" more often - "Ras Baraka" site:nytimes.com returns 150 results to "Ras J. Baraka" site:Nytimes.com having only 43, and in headlines omits the middle name like this one from 2015: "Defying Expectations, Mayor Ras Baraka Is Praised in All Corners of Newark."

Furthermore, Baraka published a book in 2005 under the name "Ras Baraka", Black girls learn love hard. The scholarly book 21st Century Urban Race Politics: Representing Minorities as Universal Interests (2013) uses "Ras Baraka." Arbor to SJ (talk) 21:47, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note moved 28 January 2015 User:Roman Spinner moved page Ras Baraka to Ras J. Baraka: per WP:COMMONNAME and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (identity)#Self-identification; subject uses "Ras J. Baraka" (rasjbaraka) as his official mayoral signature and is thus referenced…)

Support per WP:COMMONNAME Djflem (talk) 12:18, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nomination. Having moved, more than three years ago, the main header to Ras J. Baraka, I am further convinced by the book cover A Black Fire! which clearly displays the author's name as Ras Baraka, not Ras J. Baraka. Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 16:33, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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