Talk:Thomas Wilson

Should "Tom Wilson" lead here?

When I typed "Tom Wilson" into the search field and hit "Go", I was looking for the Back to the Future actor, but instead I was lead to the producer. Now, I know that there's a small group of people on the producer's discussion page hailing him as a hero and whatnot, but is he really the primary Tom Wilson that someone should be automatically taken to when looking up the article for that name? Between the aforementioned actor and the Ziggy cartoonist, I submit that there's no real justification to say that any of these 3 is necessarily more likely than the others to be the person someone's looking for when they look up the name. I propose that the article currently called "Tom Wilson" be renamed to Tom Wilson (producer), and that Tom Wilson be changed to redirect to this list. It might also be a good idea to start removing some of the people from the list, since more than half of the links are currently red. - Ugliness Man 10:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On Noroton's advice, I did some Google searches, first on "Tom Wilson", then on "Thomas Wilson", to support my position.

I initially did the "Tom Wilson" search on google.ca (since I'm Canadian, and it's my default Google search), then realized that the domain would effect the results (the majority of the results were for the former Junkhouse member). On google.com, however, in the first three pages of results, I find 6 links for the Back to the Future actor (including the first, third and sixth on the first page), 2 for the Ziggy cartoonist, and 2 for the former Junkhouse member. The only link referring to the producer in question is a link to the current Wikipedia article (fourth result on first page), which leads me to believe that if the article was changed to a disambig page, the google result would link to that instead.

When I change the search term to "Thomas Wilson", the first two results are the Back to the Future actor (as is the 9th result on the second page), the third result is Wikipedia's disambig link, the fifth is Wikipedia's article on the producer (see above comment), and the fifth and tenth are for the former Junkhouse member. The only link on the first page of these search results which is relevant to the producer is, again, the current Wikipedia article.

If anyone has any evidence to support the idea that a Wikipedia search for "Tom Wilson" should lead to the producer's article before any other, please present it. If there are no convincing arguments in the next few days, I will "be bold" and begin the moving/renaming process myself. - Ugliness Man 23:15, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Almost a week later and no comments on the subject either way. I've renamed the article to Tom Wilson (producer), and I'm currently in the process of editing articles which link to Tom Wilson with piped disambigs. - Ugliness Man 21:41, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm deleting the Thomas Wilson (US Ambassador to Iraq) line, as he does not exist (see the US Ambassador to Iraq page).Jamesofengland (talk) 22:58, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff and Murderer of Ruben Salazar

I was looking for Thomas Wilson, Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff and Murderer of Ruben Salazar. That one is missing and should be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.16.216.174 (talk) 14:06, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]