Talk:Graham Brown (Australian cricketer)

Requested move 18 December 2015

The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move per request. The rationale is well taken: In most cases a reader searching for a topic and presented with a list of people by the same name will naturally be much more likely to be able to distinguish by nationality than by date of birth (where nationalities are not the same).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:06, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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• Graham Brown (cricketer, born 1944) → Graham Brown (Australian cricketer)
• Graham Brown (cricketer, born 1966) → Graham Brown (English cricketer)

– Per WP:NCPDAB, "Years of birth and death are not normally used as disambiguators (readers are more likely to be seeking this information than to already know it) although this may be necessary when there are multiple people with the same name and tag".
In this case, both cricketers are more readily identified by their nationality than by their date of birth -- the latter is information which most readers will learn for the first time when reading the articles. The en.wp articles on these men do not mention any international matches or any matches played for a team outside their home countries, so the deprecated year-of-birth-format is not needed. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:18, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

• Note. See also similar recent discussion at Talk:Paul Jackson_(Irish cricketer)#Requested_move_10_December_2015. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:20, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support per comments at Paul Jackson discussion. Readers are much more likely to know the nationality of the player they are searching for than their year of birth. Jenks24 (talk) 03:52, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support: I've always thought so. Analogously, articles on Russian people are often disambiguated with the patronym, which I think is wrong, rather than what they are/were doing. People are more likely to know that than their patronyms. HandsomeFella (talk) 19:37, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.