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Requested move 6 May 2019

Latest comment: 5 years ago7 comments6 people in discussion

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The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 10:26, 20 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

The request to rename this article to John Carswell has been carried out.

John Carswell (disambiguation) → John Carswell – No indication that the 16th-century Scottish prelate holds such exalted place in history that his Anglicised name should be a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to his Scottish name Séon Carsuel. Anyone who researches him and types "John Carswell", a very or relatively common name, should be linked directly to the base name disambiguation page. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 01:18, 6 May 2019 (UTC)--Relisted. – Ammarpad (talk) 04:42, 13 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Oppose. This topic gets 68% percent of pageviews. Even allowing for a basename bump, this topic gets a majority of the few page views for "John Carswell" topics on WP. No indication that any other topic has more long-term significance, either. Dohn joe (talk) 14:36, 6 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Comment. Among the four men listed at John Carswell (disambiguation), only two are historically referenced solely as "John Carswell" — John Carswell (bowls) and John Patrick Carswell. The main title headers of the articles for the other two are Séon Carsuel and John Caswell. The mention of "few page views" is telling — few page views is evidence of insufficient notability here for existence of either WP:PRIMARYTOPIC or WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 00:55, 7 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Support, no clear primary topic. None of the articles receive much traffic in the first place, and the redirect only receives slightly more views than the dab page, which suggests that they aren't looking for Séon Carsuel. —Xezbeth (talk) 06:36, 13 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Support per Xezbeth. Steel1943 (talk) 12:58, 13 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Support. Looking at the longterm pageview stats there doesn't seem to be a clear favourite, John Caswell and J. P. Carswell have received a comparable number of views (and that's excluding Douglas Carswell who gets significantly more views than all of these combined). I don't see any clear basis for John Carswell being a primary redirect to the Protestant reformer. PC78 (talk) 00:06, 15 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

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