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Disambiguation with Scottish politician of the same name[edit]

Editors of this page may be interested in discussion at Talk:Jim McGovern (politician)#Page name. There are (at least) two politicians with the same name. Cnilep (talk) 01:53, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This page should be Jim McGovern (American politician), Jim McGovern should redirect to the James McGovern disambig page.Hoponpop69 (talk) 21:21, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 16 October 2017[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Moving all, including those mentioned by power~enwiki below. But revert Alan Simpson to Alan K. Simpson - there's no consensus one way or the other on that one, so reverting the undiscussed move, and people can feel free to repropose the move to "American politican" if they want to. — Amakuru (talk) 21:48, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

– The disambiguations should preferably use national demonyms, as suggested in User:Jarry1250/Findings found at WP:NCDAB. Recently at the suggestion of multiple other users, another article about a Member of Congress was moved to Tim Murphy (American politician), when I had suggested "Tim Murphy (U.S. politician)". Arbor to SJ (talk) 20:26, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment there are a few more: Andy Barr (U.S. politician), Chris Collins (U.S. politician), David Price (U.S. politician), Jim Jordan (U.S. politician), Mike Lee (U.S. politician), and Richard Hudson (U.S. politician). Also Dan Sullivan (U.S. Senator) which is a special case as there are two politicians named Dan Sullivan from Alaska. power~enwiki (π, ν) 20:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support. "American" is the standard disambiguator for people. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:09, 17 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Move Alan Simpson (U.S. politician) back to Alan K. Simpson per WP:NATURAL and WP:NCDAB to revert recent undiscussed move. Alan K. Simpson is his very commonly used real name, which is preferred to any artificial parenthetical qualifier. Neutral on the others. Station1 (talk) 09:10, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Alan Simpson" is more common than "Alan K. Simpson", based on google searches (with the accompanying words, Wyoming senator). Arbor to SJ (talk) 17:07, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Alan K. Simpson" is very commonly used, including in highly reliable sources. Whether or not it's the most commonly used name is irrelevant, because disambiguating with an alternative natural name is almost always preferred to us making up an artificial article title, per policy and guidelines mentioned. Station1 (talk) 17:20, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please notify me for a redo RM[edit]

I realize I'm too late but I don't agree with the justification for the move above and all similar ones. Very few participated in the above RM and I question the finding that the opinions expressed reflect community consensus on this question. Please notify me if there is another RM to correct this or any similar title changes. --В²C ☎ 22:37, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]