Talk:William Hunter

Split Bill Hunter

When searching for Bill Hunter it is inconvenient to have to scroll through all of the William Hunters, to find what you are looking for. Billy Hunter could also be split, but may be better disambiguated with a hatnote, rather than a separate page.--SaskatchewanSenator (talk) 19:44, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Rather than splitting, I think better might be to simply categorize by job/career. I'll give it a shot. --El on ka 22:50, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The categories are an improvement, but it doesn't address my concern. By the way, why did you divide the nationalities of politicians one way and athletes another?--SaskatchewanSenator (talk) 01:55, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Could've really gone either way on it. Categorizing of disambig pages often comes down to personal preference of whichever editor is doing the cleanup. I guess I saw the nationalities of the politicians as more of a big deal since their job is more directly related to their country. In any case, I'd have no objection if you wanted to change things around. --El on ka 05:26, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say split it to the three (since there are three Billy Hunters, a hatnote would be less useful than a separate dab page). Readers looking for a Bill are less likely to enter William, and vice versa, so there doesn't appear to be a down side for the readership. -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:16, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking that Billy Hunter (American football) might be the primary Billy Hunter topic, but I could be convinced that there is no primary topic and a third dab page would be better.--SaskatchewanSenator (talk) 22:23, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Since there's not currently a primary topic for "Billy Hunter", I was assuming that wouldn't change with this split. -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:18, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It was the primary topic until Jan. 9.--SaskatchewanSenator (talk) 20:02, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Aha. Yep, then if it gets a primary again, the other two could be hatnoted, sure. -- JHunterJ (talk) 20:05, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and performed the split, moving those with "Bill" and "Billy" names to Bill Hunter. Feel free to tweak categories if desired. --El on ka 06:26, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]