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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
Larry Mullen Jr. → Larry Mullen, Jr. – Article title has been stable until Dicklyon has tried to move it. Despite his claims, MOS:JR is not a strict rule but a recommendation. Just like the recommendation he's ignoring that existing titles be grandfathered made by the closer of a recent RFC here. – Calidum¤22:40, 20 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Oppose – per WP:JR, as settled by a recent RFC, wikipedia generally prefers to NOT use a comma before Jr. I have never asserted that it's a strict rule, but edits to move toward Wikipedia's preferred styling are generally allowed. Is there anything odd about this one? Certainly no comma appears in his name on the official u2.com site, nor on imbd.com, nor atu2.com, nor most other sources (a few like @u2.com have not much style, so do it both ways on the same page!). Dicklyon (talk) 05:41, 22 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Oppose – The comma is not used consistently in reliable sources, and rarely used at all, and hence the commas should be omitted per MOS:JR. A quick Google search makes this very clear. RGloucester — ☎16:48, 22 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Oppose - This guy ain't American for nothin'. I don't mind the comma being omitted as long as he's not American; otherwise, we could have reverted back to status quo. Let's use Irish English instead. George Ho (talk) 20:30, 27 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Oppose per MOS:JR and the RfC, and especially because Irish English, like British, has never used used the comma to begin with, so a comma for U2's drummer was a weird American-English-über-alles imposition from the start. The nom's rationale is invalid. All WP guidelines are just recommendation. This does not mean we randomly vary from them on a WP:ILIKEIT basis. What it means is that – unlike with a policy such as WP:BLP from which there are no exceptions – a case may be made on an article-by-article or even topic-by-topic basis that there's a compelling reason for a variance. No such case has been made here. Frankly, except for cases where we have concrete proof a living subject prefers the comma version, there will not be any compelling reasons for an exception. The very fact that the RfC led, right in its subject line, with MLK as the example of an article from which to remove the comma, despite many Wikipedians preferring a comma in that case, and the RfC concluded to not use the comma, is a rather clear demonstration of this. — SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 22:24, 27 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
Post closure comment (for recycling in the next round of these pointless "give me my comma or give me death" RMs): The rationale above that if he were American "we could have reverted back to status quo" is false. MOS:JR has no special rule for Americans. WP:BRD is not a WP:RM rationale, ever. RM is the D. "Per MOS" is not a rationale in favor of such an RM, either, since MOS:JR and MOS:IDENTITY (based on WP:ABOUTSELF policy) are entirely against inserting a comma here. Finally, there are no "Arbcom decisions" that address this. Dohn joe seems to just be inserting random policy and procedure catchphrases, hoping one of them will stick somehow, as if by magic. — SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 09:00, 6 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
