Talk:Grant Hill

Move request, November 2005

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• Oppose Grant Hill is a prominent Canadian politican, and even served for a time as opposition leader. - SimonP 22:46, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Support The majority of people searching for Grant Hill will be looking for the basketball player. Adding a disambiguation link or a direct link to the other Hill should be good enough. Drunkasian 2005-12-01 20:23 (UTC)
• support 3 of the first 5 entries when you google grant hill site:en.wikipedia.org are about the athlete or has references to him. to be fair, 3 of the next 5 are references are to the politician, but i agree with the previous poster/voter. 68.240.150.70 01:51, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• support. The disparity is even greater when googling the internet as a whole. Even if you limit the search to only Canadian websites ("Grant Hill" site:.ca) and look at the first ten results, it's a near-even 6-4 split favoring the NBA player. It appears the basketball player and the Canadian politician are about equally notable in Canada, but the Grant Hill of the NBA is eminently more famous everywhere else, as the NBA has fans worldwide, due in part to players being drafted from all over the globe. He currently has a teammate from Turkey and one from Croatia, whose fans back home have undoubtedly never heard of Grant Hill (politician). — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 22:15, Jan. 13, 2006

Moved. —Nightstallion (?) 07:58, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

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Someone changed "Grant Hill" back to a dab page, but I moved it back again in accoradnce with the consensus above. Please discuss any changes in the future before taking unilateral action. Grant Hill the basketball player is known worldwide; Grant Hill the politican is not. Operating on the principle of least surprise, we must have the Grant Hill article be about the basketball player. Otherwise, what's next? Making London a dab page because of London, Ontario? StarryEyes 12:42, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was no consensus. sighs Why must all of you be so difficult with simple WP:RM... —Nightstallion (?) 08:15, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

New Move Vote

NEW MOVE VOTE OK, well, someone moved it back, not necessarily because it was illegitimate, but because it was a cut-and-paste move. So I'm going through the official channels. Maybe some benevolent soul will realize this is rather silly since there's already a consensus above and move it back where it belongs. StarryEyes 23:03, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

Talk:Grant Hill (basketball) — Grant Hill (basketball) → Grant Hill

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• Support, per all the arguments above, and per the fact that it already reached a consensus! StarryEyes 23:03, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose, and in fact cannot be done, as it violates WP:D. This is a Specific topic page. It was at the related location "(basketball player)" for years. To make it a Primary topic page requires the consensus of the editors at other pages. There is no such consensus. --William Allen Simpson 19:45, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

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Sense of Style

Can someone put a source to the data about Grant Hill and his apparent love of turtle necks? I think we should remove that section if nothing is added. April 2nd Grassferry49

Requested move (April)

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Grant Hill (basketball player) → Grant Hill (basketball)

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• Support; All other basketball players/coaches with ambiguous names have just (basketball) to differentiate them from other similarly named articles (except in rare circumstances such as Mike Brown (the player)/(the coach) and Jerry Reynolds (the player)/(the coach)). The player part, I believe, has the potential to become obsolete, the ramifications of which will affect all articles of basketball-related biographies of ambiguous nomenclature down the track. Cutting it down to just (basketball) only would be the consensus decision that could be agreed upon. FYI: Up until a few weeks ago it was already Grant Hill (basketball), it was moved. --Downwards 04:06, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
• Comment. Since he is a basketball player and not a basketball, I really don't see why this system is in place. Generally such disambiguation is done by profession (actor, singer, etc.) rather than industry. The current title makes more sense from that perspective. If all of the other basketball articles are set up that way, though, I suppose the talk page of this article is isn't the place to fight for a new standard. Dekimasuよ! 11:42, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

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This article has been renamed from Grant Hill (basketball player) to Grant Hill (basketball) as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 06:31, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

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Sportsmanship award

Does anyone know what went into him winning twice? This is definitely notable enough to elaborate further on.--68.56.17.70 (talk) 17:57, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

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Needs more sources

Lots of unsourced material in this article. SunCrow (talk) 09:48, 25 November 2019 (UTC)