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Really?

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This is poorly worded : "...George Spencer's resemblance to a stillborn, deformed piglet...", it should read ..."a stillborn, deformed piglet's resemblance to George Spencer.." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.201.40.29 (talk) 00:32, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried reading that sentence using your construct? Does not read well at all. Thanks to the beauty of English either way works, it's just that the DYK order works much better as a hook. violet/riga [talk] 10:01, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! I took the liberty of moving the article for consistency with other biographies, as the usual method of disambiguation is by the subject's "claim to fame". Spencer is notable for being a sex offender, not for being from New Haven. Does anyone have a better suggestion? Something like George Spencer (sodomy law offender) (I thought it would be longer than necessary) or George Spencer (sodomy convict)? Wonderful article, by the way! Surtsicna (talk) 12:16, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is he really a sex offender? Sounds like he was convicted without due process, so we can't really apply that modern term to what was basically something of a witch trial. We don't call the people burned at the stake for sorcery criminals today, and we don't call people who were put to death for looking like a piglet criminals today. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.164.47 (talk) 18:49, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The following discussion is an archived 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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved to "Execution of George Spencer": appears to be the consensus option. DrKiernan (talk) 08:18, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]


George Spencer (sex offender) → ? – Some editors raised concerns about its disambiguous title. Is he really a "sex offender"? All he did was impregnating a mother sow... Well, he confessed and then retracted over and over until he was executed, as well as the sow herself. Why not reverting the title back to George Spencer (New Haven), which was used in DYK? George Ho (talk) 10:24, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move request, once again

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It appears it's been almost ten years since this article was moved to Execution of George Spencer. This is a deceptive title, though; the article's main topic is arguably not the execution of George Spencer, but George Spencer himself. Or at least it is more of a biography than the description of his execution. (The description of the execution effectively boils down to the one sentence "Spencer was hanged".) Suggestion: George Spencer (judicial error victim). (Former suggestions such as George Spencer (zoophile) or George Spencer (convicted zoophile) are misleading with there being no claim in the article that he was actually a zoophile. George Spencer (sodomy convict) seems most fitting among the then suggestions.) --2A02:8108:50BF:C694:CA9:17E3:CEAF:828B (talk) 19:34, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]