Talk:William Dowdeswell (politician, born 1682)

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Requested move 24 May 2019

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: not moved - consensus against the proposal. (closed by non-admin page mover) Thanks, -- DannyS712 (talk) 18:56, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

William Dowdeswell (politician, born 1682) → William Dowdeswell (1682–1728) – Universal form of bio article name used in Wikipedia. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 11:31, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:33, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ExperiencedArticleFixer and Steel1943: queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:35, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This request goes against the year born/year death disambiguation methodology outlined in WP:NCPDAB; per the aforementioned guideline, the current name is the preferred name since William Dowdeswell (politician) is ambiguous. Steel1943 (talk) 18:37, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Steel1943. The current title appears to be the correct form. PC78 (talk) 21:12, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Steel1943 and PC78. Parenthetical qualifiers consisting solely of vital dates should be used only as a last resort when no consensus can be achieved for a descriptive qualifier. Also, a simple glance at the William Dowdeswell disambiguation page would confirm that the proposed form would no longer be analogous to the other entries listed there. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 20:00, 25 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Rubbish. We prefer occupation and birth year only. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:27, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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