Talk:Robert Service

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The Library of Congress catatlogs the historian as "Robert Service" and the poet as "Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 1874-1958".

Rational for not referring to Robert W. Service as a Scottish poet[edit]

Robert W. Service was born in Preston, England and lived most of his life in Canada and France. DRoll 23:11, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Primary topic[edit]

I was just going to move Robert Service back to Robert Service (disambiguation) but I thought I'd talk about it here first. I believe "Robert Service" is the primary topic for Robert W Service. I'm not sure why you say otherwise. I have books of his poetry that only say Robert Service... no "W" at all. I believe "Robert Service" should redirect to the poet, and if you still insist otherwise there should be an RfC on the move. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:27, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Moved from user talk:czar

@Fyunck(click), "Robert Service" was previously targeting "Robert W. Service". If you think the poet's article should reside at "Robert Service", that's a different discussion. I wouldn't contest that move, but between academic and Google hits, the term "Robert Service" does not clearly eclipse other uses (the historian, etc.), hence why I moved the dab as the primary topic. czar 09:34, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]