Talk:Bostock

Requested move 5 February 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 05:42, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

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• Bostock (disambiguation) → Bostock
• Bostock → Bostock, Cheshire

– Yet another dab page without a primary topic. Based on views alone, Bostock v. Clayton County would seem to be the primary topic, but trying duckduckgo and google also gives me tons of hits about some pastry called "Bostock" (which we don't seem to have an article on yet), and also this is another instance where everything on the dab page is super obscure, so I think giving the court case primary topic status would not be a good decision. (The suggested title of Bostock, Cheshire is per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)#England, though I could have wanted Bostock, England as a title instead.) Duckmather (talk) 20:33, 5 February 2024 (UTC); amended 05:04, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

• Another absolute no-brainer, you don't need a RM for this. "Bostock" was created in December '05 and the second edit ever to it was to note the ambiguity in February '06. --Joy (talk) 09:47, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

  @Joy: I don't have the move without redirect power, which this would need, hence why I am starting so many RMs in the first place. Duckmather (talk) 15:03, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

  Ah, okay, it's either that or delete-redirect. Still, I think your workflow would be able to start with WP:RM/TR, no? --Joy (talk) 15:35, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nom. No primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:12, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose I think the village is the primary topic as there are no other things that are just Bostock apart from the related surname. SportingFlyer T·C 23:14, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

  @SportingFlyer: There are also plenty of google hits about the pastry of the same name, so a Bostock (pastry) article could likely be written here on Wikipedia if you or I ever get around to it. Duckmather (talk) 05:07, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

  We can't just habitually exclude surnames from considerations of disambiguation because it's likewise common for our readers to refer to people by their names, especially surnames. Presenting ambiguity is such a case is more natural than it is to present the village as if it was a primary topic. --Joy (talk) 11:06, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.