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Requested move 18 March 2021

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: Douglas Chalmers (British Army officer) → Douglas Chalmers and Douglas Chalmers → Douglas Chalmers (politician). There is consensus that the British Army officer is the primary topic, although the proposal by two editors to make Douglas Chalmers a disambiguation page is noted. (closed by non-admin page mover) – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 16:42, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

– The army officer is the primary topic ghits pageviews. DrKay (talk) 22:11, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support - ratio of pageviews make a good case for this move. Warofdreams talk 23:13, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Douglas Chalmers (British Army officer) → Douglas Chalmers, but would support Douglas Chalmers (British Army officer) → Douglas Chalmers (general). Support Douglas Chalmers → Douglas Chalmers (Scottish politician), but would prefer Douglas Chalmers → Douglas Chalmers (politician) and would also support creation of the Douglas Chalmers disambiguation page listing both men. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 02:50, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:ONEOTHER, disambiguation pages are not necessary, or desirable, when there are only two topics and one of them is primary. DrKay (talk) 07:53, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support 1st as the Army officer gets way more views (1,078) than the politician (78)[[1]]. As for the qualifier I'd agree with Roman Spinner that Douglas Chalmers (politician) would be better since there is no indication the Army officer is also a politician but that's not a huge issue. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:15, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC but note there are half a dozen incoming wikilinks that will need updating. Also agree with above comments that Douglas Chalmers (politician) is sufficient, per WP:CONCISE. - Station1 (talk) 18:07, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support alternate proposals Douglas Chalmers → Douglas Chalmers (politician), and creation of DAB at Douglas Chalmers. The evidence that there is a primary topic is very shaky, but there are no other politicians so the more concise disambiguator is preferred. But obviously then oppose move of the article on the officer to the base name. Support move of that article to Douglas Chalmers (general) as I note he has served with US forces while still a British officer, and that's quite precise enough as well. Andrewa (talk) 23:41, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but use Douglas Chalmers (politician). Incidentally, "British Army officer" is the standard disambiguator for all British Army officers and has been for years. It's used on hundreds of articles. No good reason to start changing things which work perfectly well now. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:39, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support and agree regarding Douglas Chalmers (politician). Dormskirk (talk) 12:22, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.