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Requested move 18 December 2015

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The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move per request. The rationale is well taken: In most cases a reader searching for a topic and presented with a list of people by the same name will naturally be much more likely to be able to distinguish by nationality than by date of birth (where nationalities are not the same).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:06, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]


– Per WP:NCPDAB, "Years of birth and death are not normally used as disambiguators (readers are more likely to be seeking this information than to already know it) although this may be necessary when there are multiple people with the same name and tag".
In this case, both cricketers are more readily identified by their nationality than by their date of birth -- the latter is information which most readers will learn for the first time when reading the articles. The en.wp articles on these men do not mention any international matches or any matches played for a team outside their home countries, so the deprecated year-of-birth-format is not needed. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:18, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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