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Requested move 18 February 2018[edit]

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The result of the move request was: consensus to move the page to Clarence Beavers, per the discussion below; redirect created at Clarence H. Beavers. Dekimasuよ! 21:02, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Clarence Beavers (soldier) → Clarence H. Beavers – Remove the text "(solider)" from the title and add the subject of the article middle initial. Many google search results, of the subject of this article, display his full name with the middle initial. This was also the subject of the article's own preference use of his name both in writing and introductions. The text "(solider)" should be removed from the title since that text doesn't appear on many other WWII soldiers wikipedia article titles (i.e. Donald Malarkey; Richard Winters; Roscoe Brown etc. Cbeavers39 (talk) 21:08, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose WP:COMMONNAME as Gbooks and GNews. In ictu oculi (talk) 21:34, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Move to Clarence Beavers per WP:COMMONNAME. Just add a hatnote pointing to the little-viewed hockey team that formerly used the name. Station1 (talk) 21:54, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Move to Clarence Beavers with hatnote as above. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:33, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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