Talk:Rooney

Latest comment: 12 years ago by JHunterJ in topic Requested move

Wayne

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Why doesnt this page link directly to Wayne Rooney? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki119 (talkcontribs)

As you can see from the list, there are about a dozen people named Rooney with Wikipedia articles. The name Rooney is not obviously associated with one person, the way Hitler and Stalin are, so it's better to leave it as a dab page with links to all such people. SteveO 00:36, 18 December 2006 (UTC)Reply
This is an international encyclopedia. In England, Rooney most often refers to Wayne. However, in the USA, most people have never even heard of him - Americans would be far more likely to be looking for Mickey or Andy. F W Nietzsche (talk) 19:24, 11 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Surname spin-off

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I personally don't feel that the surname spin-off is necessary, as there is no issue with having the names here. It's not a long article, and for people looking for Wayne Rooney (there are a lot, I'm sure), it's confusing - I thought he'd been removed by vandalism before I realised a new article had been created. The new article doesn't look particularly tidy, either. I can't think of many other surnames that are spun-off; Smith is, but that's a very, very common name. There's only 20 or so individuals named Rooney. Esteffect (talk) 17:00, 26 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

I think your estimate of how common spinning off surnames is way off, I looked in the Surnames category and immediately found Abercrombie, which has a spin off to Abercrombie (surname). That was with a two second look at the first page. There must be countless others. And I really do think that, for a dab page, the previous verion is long, certainly long enough to make it not ideal as a simple navigation page. As for that, I'm sure that realising there is a surname spinoff, and then clicking 'W' in its contents page, is not that hard or relatively time consuming surely?. People will always miss things, I've seen things get added multiple times to even small dab pages, this is just the way some people work. MickMacNee (talk) 17:18, 26 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Requested move

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. 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 move request was: not moved. WP:SNOW (ignoring American conspiracy/cabal argument), no indication of primary topic criteria being met. -- JHunterJ (talk) 16:11, 19 February 2012 (UTC)Reply



RooneyRooney (disambiguation) – while redirecting this to Wayne Rooney as a primary topic-180.183.136.102 (talk) 12:37, 13 February 2012 (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. No further edits should be made to this section.