Talk:Reg Empey

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A guy I work with who is usually well tuned in on these matters calls Reg a failed draper. Did Reg own a failing business in his earlier life?

Reg Empey's new website

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Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page not moved: majority after 26 days discussion. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:38, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Reg Empey → Reg Empey, Baron Empey.

Oppose - Known primarily for his career in Northern Ireland and as acting First Minister of Northen Irealnd and his leadership of the UUP and the electoral pact with the Conservatives. Not known for being a peer or by the peerage title, so his widely known by name has not changed one dot since he was ennobled and no disambiguation is required for this article title.--Lucy-marie (talk) 16:00, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. WP:NCPEER is quite clear. This chap is no longer wholly or exclusively known by his pre-peerage nomenclature. Kittybrewster ☎ 15:15, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Commnet - The above comments are clearly not the case and this article is the most patent example of the above comments not holding any water.--Lucy-marie (talk) 16:24, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose for all the usual reasons. Is it not possible to make a combined proposal for all of these, instead of making people write separate comments (which are probably all going to be largely identical) on a dozen or so different pages? There are instructions for making combined proposals at WP:RM.--Kotniski (talk) 16:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Lucy-marie and Kotniski. — Amakuru (talk) 17:25, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose in the strongest possible terms for consistency in naming per policy and guidelines like WP:COMMONNAME, WP:TITLE, WP:D and WP:PRECISION that apply to all Wikipedia article titles. The subject is most commonly known by the current title; adding peerage information is additional precision that is completely unnecessary, all good reasons to ignore WP:NCPEER. --Born2cycle (talk) 19:56, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

B2C's arguments are bogus, because the policy WP:TITLE explicitly permits topic-specific naming conventions such as WP:NCPEER. Kittybrewster ☎ 20:14, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And policy also tells us to ignore guidelines if the encyclopedia is improved by so doing - B2C has argued as to why we should do so in this case. It's your argument (which as far as I can tell consists only of "we have to do this because WP:NCPEER tells us to do this") which is so far worthless. Can you say why you think the longer title improves the encyclopedia? (Note that it's another of those that would look particularly stupid on account of having a colloquial form of the first name combined with the hyperformal form of the title, so that's yet one more reason not to follow the guideline in this case - although the guideline itself also allows for exceptions, so it's not even clear that keeping the shorter title would be against the guideline anyway.)--Kotniski (talk) 09:45, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support - now known as Lord Empey and likely to take an active part in the House of Lords. --Counter-revolutionary (talk) 09:52, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Surely if he is to be known as Lord Empy as you claim then Baron Empy is the wrong title and the title Baron Empy is misleading and not what he is known as.--Lucy-marie (talk) 10:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Politicians who have been ennobled are almost invariably known by their titles thereafter. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:39, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is just factually incorrect, as explained on one of the other pages where you wrote the same claim.--Kotniski (talk) 14:52, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - This is not a Crystal Ball and what they are currently known is what we have to take as the current commonly used name. If in the future the individual is known regularly by their ennobled title then that would be grounds to change the article title. To though say, it is expected that the names they are known by will change is not how things work on Wikipeida.--Lucy-marie (talk) 17:32, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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