Talk:Will Campbell (Baptist minister)

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Requested move 13 February 2018[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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: consensus to move the article to Will Campbell (Baptist minister), per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 03:59, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Will D. Campbell → William Davis Campbell – there is also a William D. Campbell I am nominating to move to William Durant Campbell. There is a notable William Douglas Campbell who needs to be disambiguated at this middle initial. ScratchMarshall (talk) 00:13, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. Subject was known to the public as Will D. Campbell. It was his pen name and it was the name by which he was referenced. There is no indication that he used the full form William Davis Campbell. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 00:28, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. Subject was known to the public as Will Campbell (Baptist minister) see Will Campbell, Preacher Man: Essays in the Spirit of a Divine Provocateur etc. and less commonly with the D. counter propose Will Campbell (Baptist minister). In ictu oculi (talk) 19:00, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, but support In ictu oculi's proposed name, and support Will D. Campbell ultimately pointing to a dab page. Further explanation:

Will Campbell or Will D. Campbell is overwhelmingly the WP:COMMONNAME.

Hawkins, M.M. (1997). Will Campbell: Radical Prophet of the South. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-86554-562-5.
"Will D. Campbell: A Man of the Word". University of Southern Mississippi. 25 February 2002.
Flora, J.M.; Vogel, A. (2006). "Will D. Campbell". Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-4855-6.
Goode, R.C. (2010). Crashing the Idols: The Vocation of Will D. Campbell. Cascade Books. ISBN 978-1-60608-127-3.
Goode, R.C. (2012). And the Criminals with Him: Essays in Honor of Will D. Campbell and All the Reconciled. Wipf & Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-62189-419-3.
Childress, K.; Kennedy, R.W.; Hauerwas, S. (2016). Will Campbell, Preacher Man: Essays in the Spirit of a Divine Provocateur. Cascade Books. ISBN 978-1-4982-0273-2.

However, I agree with ScratchMarshall that Will D. Campbell is too ambiguous, so I agree that it should be or redirect to another WP:DAB page.

ScratchMarshall is suggesting natural disambiguation, whereas In ictu oculi is suggesting parenthetical disambiguation. While the need for disambiguation may override common name in some cases, in this case, the alternate name Will or William Davis Cambell is very rarely used except for:

Richardson, C.M.; Luker, R.E. (2014). "Cambell, Will Davis". Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 104f. ISBN 978-0-8108-8037-5.

Looking at WP:NAMINGCRITERIA, I support In ictu oculi's proposed parenthetical disambiguation. Daask (talk) 12:43, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:COMMONAME. Support move to Will Campbell (Baptist minister). -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:16, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Nominator here, I support a move to (Baptist minister) too, I don't have any problems with parenthesis but I just never know what to propose to put in between those brackets. ScratchMarshall (talk) 20:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.