Talk:Montgomery Meigs

Titles

Ok, here's the situation as I see it. We have four notable people—the three currently listed here and N0TABENE's very good draft—who could all be referred to as "Montgomery Cunningham Meigs" or "Montgomery Meigs". They're all prominent, without a primary topic among them. So they'll need disambiguation. I propose moving this disambiguation page to the shorter version, per WP:CONCISE, and a slightly better fit for the ships. (Well, the ships could just be in a See also; they're not too important here.) Options for the people:

1. Montgomery C. Meigs: This title will have to redirect to the dab. The new title could be Montgomery C. Meigs (1816–1892) or Montgomery C. Meigs (American Civil War).
2. Montgomery C. Meigs, Jr.: Should be fine. He's the only Jr.
3. Draft:Montgomery Cunningham Meigs: This could be published to Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1919–1944) or Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (World War II).
4. Montgomery Meigs: He'll probably have to be Montgomery Meigs (born 1945). He isn't known for any one war particularly, and some more standard disambiguators like (American general) would still be ambiguous.

Finally, what to do with Montgomery "Monty" Meigs kind of depends on whether anyone besides Jr. was nicknamed Monty. I think that's about everything... --BDD (talk) 19:15, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

You're our expert on titling, BDD. :) I think I would prefer the date disambiguators, what do you think, NotaBene? --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:44, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, WP:NCPDAB discourages dates, but they may be our best bet here, especially if we use them for the contemporary. --BDD (talk) 19:54, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

The dates work fine for me. Actually, from my reading, ALL of them informally went by "Monty" or "Mont" so that doesn't really help. Still not sure why my original attempt wouldn't have worked mais, c'est la vie, c'est la guerre, no pun intended. BDD do you want to retitle the articles, then how to handle all of the refs throughout WP to any of the M.C. Meigs'? Thanks for the nice comments about my draft article. NotaBene 22:39, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

@BDD and Malcolmxl5: Can one of you tell me how to change the title of the Draft article to Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1919-1944), and if it can be moved? Thanks. NotaBene 23:19, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

It would be moved to the new (article) title, NotaBene. I don't see a problem with it being moved, shall I do that for you? --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:33, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

That would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.NotaBene 23:40, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

OK, I've moved the draft to Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1919–1944) and removed the AfC tag. I also tweaked the format of the hatnote at the top of the page to fix an error there. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:33, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

NotaBene, I'll go ahead and move the rest of this, yes. I think the original attempt wouldn't've worked because the Civil War general, not to say the others, seems at least a prominent as the WWII one. The primary topic guideline suggests an article should only be at an ambiguous title "if it is highly likely—much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term." If you do think the WWII general meets that, it might be worth a separate discussion. --BDD (talk) 14:26, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

BDD, no I'm copacetic with the resolution you and Malcolmxl5 came up with. The Civil War general will probably get the vast bulk of page hits anyway. As long as the disambiguation page links make it clear who is who there's no point in further discussion, IMHO. I greatly appreciate the assistance of both of you. I did want to get this page up as a tribute to the surviving members of the 23rd Tank Battalion and the 12th Armored Division whom I've met. I'm still looking for a copyright-free image of Lt. Col. Meigs.NotaBene 14:39, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

BDD not to belabor this, but I noticed you modified the Meigs dab page, changing the descriptor for "Montgomery Meigs" from the current general to "several American military leaders". The wikilink is now a redlink since "Montgomery Meigs" page no longer exists. I know this is frowned upon, but shouldn't either "Montgomery Meigs" link to the "Montgomery Cunningham Meigs" dab page, or should the name and description be changed back to Montgomery Meigs (born 1945), so that it links back to the individual?NotaBene —Preceding undated comment added 14:49, 10 February 2016‎

Not to worry—you just caught me in the middle of work. "Montgomery Meigs" is no longer red. My last step will be changing incoming links for the Civil War general to the disambiguated title so "Montgomery C. Meigs" will redirect here too. --BDD (talk) 16:58, 10 February 2016 (UTC)