Talk:William Drury Lowe (landowner, born 1802)

On 24 August 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from William Drury Lowe to William Drury Lowe (landowner, born 1802). The result of the discussion was moved.

Requested move 24 August 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) RodRabelo7 (talk) 01:32, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

– These were both British landowners who inherited the same property. Wikipedia doesn't ordinarily use entire lifespan ranges (especially with hyphens) for disambiguation of people. They were both High Sheriff of Derbyshire. A pageview comparison shows that both articles get about the same level of readership interest, which is about one view per day in both cases. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 00:37, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nomination combined with the creation of a William Drury Lowe disambiguation page that would list both men. Since the landowner born in 1753 has a hyphenated name, I would also support, as an alternative option, simply having one main title header at William Drury Lowe and the other header at William Drury-Lowe, with a hatnote atop each of the two entries pointing to the other entry. This alternative option is dependent upon the reliability of the "Drury-Lowe" hyphen which is not always present in historical sources. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 16:56, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't even notice that one was "Drury Lowe" and the other was "Drury-Lowe"! I doubt that's a sufficient distinction by itself, and I see that you said it is not always consistent in sources. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 17:36, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment If these are the only two, I think we can just cut out the "landowner" portion of the disambiguator as redundancy. Curbon7 (talk) 11:41, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have wondered about that myself. Is DOB-only disambiguation an accepted practice on Wikipedia in such cases? I recently encountered a case where several different people seemed to have the same name and nationality and basic occupational description, and two of them already had DOB-only disambiguation for their titles, so I changed an outlier to follow that format. See William Deedes. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:06, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:45, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. The version without the hyphen seems to be more common for both of them. Yes, it does need the occupation, in line with standard disambiguation for thousands of others. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:43, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Necrothesp: So should the William Deedes articles be moved? —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 16:53, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed they should. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:15, 30 August 2024 (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.