Talk:John Derek Smith

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Requested move 27 March 2015[edit]

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The result of the move request was: NOT MOVED. Hadal (talk) 00:46, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

John Derek Smith → John Smith (Molecular Biologist) – as per quote in article: "John Smith was a venerable nucleic acids biochemist. ..." and article ref: http://www.genetics.org/content/165/4/1633.full Greg Kaye 19:45, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please adjust the request so that the disambiguator is not capitalised. DrKiernan (talk) 09:48, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose there's the geneticist John Maynard Smith , "molecular biologist" is too ambiguous -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 17:48, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Good call DrKiernan and 65.94.43.89

Suggest John Smith (British molecular biologist) as per article content.

Greg Kaye 18:06, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Any parenthetical phrase is too long for a reader. Let's stick to natural disambiguation, okay? I think "Derek" is more encyclopedic and concise than "molecular biologist". --George Ho (talk) 19:25, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Sources mentioning this person: [1][2][3][4]. They all use "John Derek Smith" rather than "John Smith". --George Ho (talk) 19:31, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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