Talk:David Bowles (chief executive)

A fact from David Bowles (chief executive) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 April 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that evidence given by Lincolnshire County Council chief executive David Bowles led to one council leader being jailed and his successor banned from being a county councillor, for seeking revenge against Bowles?

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Requested move 12 December 2020[edit]

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 section.

It was proposed in this section that David Bowles (chief executive) be renamed and moved to David Bowles.

result:
Not moved per consensus garnered below. Kudos to editors for your input, and Happy, Healthy Publishing! (nac by page mover) P.I. Ellsworth ed. ^put'r there 22:09, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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David Bowles (chief executive) → David Bowles – Move over the current 2-DABS page which is not required, and put a hatnote there to the other use. Notwithstanding an odd peak in May 2019 [1], page views over the last year [2] indicate a clear primary topic. Two other points: "chief executive" is a rather unsatisfactory disambiguator anyway; and in any case a 2-entry disambiguation page is suboptimal because everyone who lands on the page will need to click on to another page, but after this move only those looking for the American politician would need to click on further. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:29, 12 December 2020 (UTC) —Relisted. P.I. Ellsworth ed. ^put'r there 02:16, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support - it makes it more easier to get to one of the David Bowles Sahaib3005 (talk) 12:10, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Mid oppose I don't think either page gets enough page views or is significant enough to be a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.--Ortizesp (talk) 23:02, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, on the basis there isn't one clear primary topic. Evidently this Bowles has been in the news more recently and has also been subject of a DYK. The other David Bowles you could argue achieved higher (elected) office, but not recently so would logically attract fewer page views at the moment. People searching for "Davd Bowles" need to be taken directly to a disambiguation page. Sionk (talk) 02:01, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
oppose the low page views make it hard to justify either as the primary topic. blindlynx (talk) 05:43, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Ortizesp, Sionk and blindlynx. Wikipedia has about 100,000 two-entry disambiguation pages as listed at Category:Disambiguation pages with short descriptions, thus a dab page such as this one is very common. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 02:56, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.