Talk:Senator Schmitt

Requested move 8 November 2022

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The result of the move request was: Moved, snow that Eric Schmitt has become a U.S. Senator-elect — thus, there's now no primary topic for this title, as there's more than one U.S. Senator with the name. Paintspot Infez (talk) 17:59, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

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Senator Schmitt (disambiguation) → Senator Schmitt – Eric S. Schmitt is guaranteed to become elected as US senator in a few days. Harrison Schmitt, which this redirect currently points to, wasn't very notable as a senator, serving only one poorly-received term, and is much better known as an astronaut, so it is thus likely there is no WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT because he will be probably more notable as a Senator Schmitt. (And, in my experience, no one really uses these Senator Name redirects.) --Quiz shows 05:06, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Happily888 (talk) 14:15, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Object. Maybe after tuesday's election, as Eric Schmitt has not been elected as yet. Harrison Schmitt was also one of the two last people to walk on the Moon, making him doubly notable and possibly searched for under this title. Respectfully, the redirect suggested is for someone not presently a Senator or Senator-elect. Thanks Randy Kryn (talk) 11:43, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

@Randy Kryn: Yeah, I probably jumped gun. However, I don't think it will be hard to Eric Schmitt to outdo the notability as "Senator Schmitt" when he wins tonight. So I don't object to the discussion being started on my part, but I would think voting now is pointless. --Quiz shows 19:58, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose as this is too soon. Wikipedia is not a WP:CRYSTALBALL. cookie monster 755 08:42, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
• Weak support Eric S. Schmitt has 24,068 views compared with only 7,462[[1]] for Harrison Schmitt though that may be recentism. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:10, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose right now but we really need to see whether Eric S. Schmitt is in fact elected. Once he becomes a senator things change significantly. Maybe invoke wp:IAR and just put this RM on hold for a few days? Andrewa (talk) 13:09, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
• Support. He won the election; reliable sources have called the race. I guess technically he's still the senator-elect and not senator, but also from another point of view he was a state senator so Senator Schmitt isn't technically incorrect either. Adumbrativus (talk) 05:26, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

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