Talk:Tony Parker (basketball, born 1993)

Latest comment: 9 years ago by TonyTheTiger in topic Page move

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I moved the page to Tony Parker (college basketball). When he goes pro, we could move it to Tony Parker (American basketball). It doesn't make sense to me why the other Tony Parker does not have a dab, like Tony Parker (French basketball). Yoninah (talk) 19:31, 30 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Yoninah: Tony Parker, the French pro player, is presumably the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, thus there is no disambiguator needed. As for the Tony Parker in this article, I was just following what I thought was the convention in basketball, though I see it is not formally documented at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (sportspeople). I'd imagine most of the time "college basketball" is not used since most American pro players would have also been college players as well, but the main Tony Parker is not American and never played in college. Therefore, it technically is not a problem. I'll notify a few of the basketball WikiProjects to see if we have an existing guideline. Thanks.—Bagumba (talk) 22:46, 30 April 2015 (UTC)Reply
why move it from the birth year, which is the standard naming convention? This won't change. A person is only a college player for a few years. In 20 years there might be 10 guys named Tony Parker known for basketball and using birth year will keep them straight long-term. The Spurs Tony Parker is a probable Hall of Famer. It makes sense why he is the primary topic. Rikster2 (talk) 23:03, 30 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

I'm not seeing any consensus to have moved this to Tony Parker (college basketball). The original move rationale was "no other Tony Parker pages contain birthdates",[1] but there is precedent to use birthdates in other basketball articles. No prejudice if consensus forms to rename to something else. In the meantime, falling back to prior status quo of Tony Parker (basketball, born 1993).—Bagumba (talk) 07:02, 2 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

  • Bagumba, you missed my reply above. Here are what I think the four articles should be named now with a hatnote for each:
Tony Parker: Tony Parker (basketball) redirects here, for the UCLA Bruin basketball player see Tony Parker (basketball, born 1993), for other uses see Anthony Parker (disambiguation).
Tony Parker (basketball, born 1993): none
Isiah Thomas: Isiah Thomas (basketball) redirects here, for the 2010s professional basketball player see Isaiah Thomas (basketball), for other uses, see Isiah Thomas (disambiguation).
Isaiah Thomas (basketball): This page is for the 2010s professional basketball player, for the HOF American basketball player, see Isiah Thomas