Talk:Donna McFarlane

Move? (26 Nov 2014)

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The result of the move request was: move the page to the plain title, per the discussion below; hatnote replaces disambiguation page. Dekimasuよ! 02:06, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

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• Donna McFarlane (writer) → Donna McFarlane
• Donna McFarlane → Donna McFarlane (disambiguation) –

And existing Donna McFarlane to Donna McFarlane (disambiguation) to get it out of the way of incoming.

• • (Was request {{db-move|Donna McFarlane (writer)|Newly created article is the primary topic for this name (not the alt "Mac" name of an athlete)}} at 18:21, 25 November 2014‎ by User:Sillyfolkboy)
  • Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:01, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
• Comment why "Donna McFarlane (disambiguation)" and not "Donna MacFarlane (disambiguation)" ? -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 07:39, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
• No objection to the proposed move. The only reason I did it the way I did was that the plain "Donna McFarlane" title was already in place as a redirect to the athlete, and had upwards of 50 incoming links using that spelling to get to her — and given that she only ever published a single book, isn't really all that well known and really only qualified for a Wikipedia article on the technicality that the book got shortlisted for a notable literary award, I felt that the writer wasn't really notable enough to claim primary topic over a clearly somewhat common misspelling of a much more notable person's name. If other people feel differently, though, then I don't have any objections to undabbing the writer. What I will suggest, however, is that since there are only two topics involved, then the disambiguation page is actually unnecessary if we do move the writer to the plain title — rather, we should just directly hatnote the writer and the athlete to each other using the {{for}} template instead. Bearcat (talk) 01:56, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
  • @Bearcat: That was indeed my intention. Also, I wouldn't say that Donna MacFarlane was massively more notable - she's never got beyond the heats at world competition in the women's steeplechase (perhaps athletics's least developed and visible track event to feature at the Olympics) though she might have more cachet in Australia, specifically. Outside of the template the article is linked on, the athlete article only has about a dozen proper links. SFB 18:25, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
    • Fair enough, maybe I was just being too generous about the notability of a person about whom I didn't already have preexisting knowledge. Bearcat (talk) 17:04, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

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