Talk:William Moss (Australian politician)

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Requested move 17 September 2020

Latest comment: 3 years ago7 comments6 people in discussion

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Consensus to move. (closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 11:38, 24 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

– I find it implausible that the Australian politician who lead a relatively minor political party is the primary topic of this common combination of given name and surname. I propose to move the disambiguation page, Bill Moss to the title, expand it to cover "William or Bill" names, and add this title and the other two currently perched in the hatnote of this page. BD2412 T 00:58, 17 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Support, except that I might suggest William Moss (grazier) for this page as he never actually held elected office (not that that's required for a politician, but it's how our main source describes him). Frickeg (talk) 07:15, 17 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
Support (both grazier and Australian politician are fine), as this article is not the primary topic (definitely not so by page views) and Bill and William are synonymous.--Eostrix (^{🦉 hoot} _hoot🦉) 10:30, 17 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 13:23, 17 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
Yes but the combined disambiguation page will have 3 Williams, 4 Bills and 1 Billy, so shouldn't a "William or Bill" page really be a "Bill or William" page at Bill? Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 16:44, 21 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
- I think (and I may be wrong) that our tendency as a project is to have the page at the more formal name (William, Robert, David) with the shorter form redirected there. BD2412 T 18:26, 22 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

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