Talk:Samuel Smith (Dean of Christ Church)

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Amakuru in topic Requested move 10 August 2019

Requested move 10 August 2019

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The result of the move request was: Moved as per the final non-struck options below - there is broad agreement on these.  — Amakuru (talk) 21:26, 14 September 2019 (UTC)Reply



– Of these Samuel Smiths, three (all except the Canadian academic) were priests, and three (all except the prison chaplain) were educators: the disambiguators do not disambiguate clearly. LookLook36 (talk) 18:15, 10 August 2019 (UTC) --Relisting.  — Amakuru (talk) 11:38, 19 August 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. Steel1943 (talk) 17:06, 5 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

  • Samuel Smith (Dean of Christ Church, Oxford) is much clearer. Christ Church naturally goes to a vast disam page (never mind Christchurch and Christchurch (disambiguation)). Westminster, prison chaplain and Canadian academic are ok, but the article makes no mention of "Sam". Johnbod (talk) 02:05, 12 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
    • @Johnbod: As the page for the office is Dean of Christ Church, this is probably the better form - amended above. The Canadian academic seems to have been known as "Sam Smith", but also sometimes as "W. A. Samuel Smith" (which was previously the page's title) - Google has the following numbers of hits:
      • "Sam Smith" "Athabasca University": 334
      • "Samuel Smith" "Athabasca University": 274 (total inflated by reflections of the current Wikipedia title, and by hits for "W. A." and "Walter Alvah" below)
      • "W. A. S. Smith" "Athabasca University": 113
      • "W. A. Samuel Smith" "Athabasca University": 104
      • "Walter Alvah Samuel Smith" "Athabasca University": 25.

All of these should be made redirects once the page has been moved. LookLook36 (talk) 07:45, 12 August 2019 (UTC)Reply


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