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Latest comment: 7 years ago7 comments4 people in discussion
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. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: Moved, evidence that "Dwight Evans" is more likely a WP:COMMONNAME, oppositions countered (non-admin closure) — Andy W. (talk) 00:26, 12 November 2016 (UTC)Reply
Why? What is achieved by moving an article and moving all of its incoming links? Using a middle initial to disambiguate is just as good as a parenthetical, especially if the subject is already known using it. JesseRafe (talk) 17:35, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Reply
Support. No confirmation that subject's middle initial is "E." All appended inline cites and external links indicate his name as "Dwight", not "Dwight E." —Roman Spinner(talk)(contribs) 17:50, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Reply
1) When the article was created, the original main title header should have been Dwight Evans (politician), not Dwight Evans (Pennsylvania politician), since there are no Wikipedia articles highlighting politicians named "Dwight Evans" who represent any other states.
2) While the three links you provided do confirm the existence and occasional official use of the middle initial "E." [the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board use of the name is on page 113, not the non-existent page 125, and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection use of the name is on page 51, not the non-existent page 61], there is still no evidence that such use represents subject's WP:COMMONNAME.
5) All 10 inline cites appended to the article reference him as "Dwight Evans" with, again, no mention of "Dwight E. Evans", thus confirming his WP:COMMONNAME.
6) Finally, I regret the misunderstanding caused by my writing, "All appended inline cites and external links indicate his name as "Dwight", not "Dwight E."". It was simply a shorthand way of stating, "All appended inline cites and external links indicate his name as "Dwight Evans", not "Dwight E. Evans"". —Roman Spinner(talk)(contribs) 23:51, 4 November 2016 (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.
Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Dwight Evan's photo is awkwardly small. Is there a bigger public domain image from the Library of Congress? Lasalleexplorer (talk) 15:49, 16 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
