Talk:William Jameson (botanist, born 1796)

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Requested move 19 November 2017[edit]

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The result of the move request was: all the pages moved per consensus. —usernamekiran(talk) 06:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

– I am not convinced that the 19th Century Scottish botanist is the primary topic for this term. Of the three most likely targets (including another 19th Century Scottish botanist!), all get very little traffic, with the current holder of the title getting less than 50% of the pageviews. I would move both botanist articles to more distinguishing titles, and make the disambiguation page primary. bd2412 T 03:19, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Anything else would guarantee confusion, even if one was more prominent than the other. —Xezbeth (talk) 07:55, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nomination (there may be a guideline that counsels whether a comma should be placed between "botanist" and "born" within the qualifiers for the two Scottish botanists). No indication that the older Scottish botanist's prominence was such that he should be positioned above all others bearing that name. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 08:03, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support as above. ʍaɦʋɛօtʍ (talk) 12:48, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support good call In ictu oculi (talk) 15:28, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but to William Jameson (botanist, born 1796) and William Jameson (botanist, born 1815), with the usual comma. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:26, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- No objection to the commas, although I think they are generally superfluous throughout occupation/birthdate disambiguators using them. bd2412 T 16:35, 22 November 2017 (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.