Talk:Colin Ross (pipemaker)

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This page is misleadingly titled - Colin Ross (musician and pipemaker) better reflects his role as a tradition-bearer of the music as well as his contribution to pipemaking. I do not know how to move it myself, or even if I have authority to do so.John Gibbons 3 (talk) 22:04, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Counterpoint: the parts in parentheses are "disambiguation" (WP:DAB). They are not meant to be a description, but simply the most minimal way possible to tell one similarly-named person from another. Note that Colin Ross goes to a DAB page for three different people: a wrongly-executed Australian, a Canadian physician, and our musician. DABs should be as basic as possible, so this article should have either a middle name/initial, or a minimalist description in parentheses. Since the others are not Englishmen, "Colin Ross (England)" would have worked fine too, but I reckoned at the time that "pipemaker" helped set him apart from any potential Colin Rosses that may ever get articles. I'd be fine with (England), (Northumberland), (musician), (bagpiper), or (pipemaker), but we definitely don't need more than one word. The "pipemaker" isn't meant to be an all-inclusive description, simply a "least likely to be confused with other Colin Rosses". MatthewVanitas (talk) 02:10, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Given that he is a pipemaker the current title seems accurate for disambiguation purposes.--SabreBD (talk) 07:21, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Colin Ross death

Sadly Colin Ross died on the 27th May 2019. I have updated the main page with this information and have adjusted the present tense to past.

Paw42 (talk) 14:03, 7 June 2019 (UTC)