Talk:Greg W. Harris

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The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 12:21, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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Greg Harris (pitcher, born 1963) → Greg W. Harris — A less-cumbersome way of distinguishing between the two men named Greg Harris. The page itself notes that the two were distinguished by their middle initials during their playing days.Jedzz (talk) 21:25, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

• Support per nom. If that's how the two men were distinguished during their playing careers, then it makes sense for us to do likewise rather than using a clunky disambiguator. PC78 (talk) 11:56, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose as per WP:NC-BASE. Blahblah32blahblah (talk) 15:58, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
  • Irrelevant. The point here is that we don't need a disambiguator at all. PC78 (talk) 11:22, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
• Support. OK, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (baseball players) does say that, if all else fails, to use the players birth years. However. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (baseball players) documents a naming convention, or so it says. But how often has this convention been used? If its not hardly used, its not a convention. I bet it was put in by someone who wanted to be tidy, and more power to them, but I don't think we have to be bound by it. In truth, the Harris boys were indeed differentiated by their middle initials in the newspapers of the time (I remember this), that's good enough for me. Herostratus (talk) 07:11, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
  • Also, at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)#Disambiguating, it says "Years of birth and death are not normally used as disambiguators (readers are more likely to be seeking this information than to already know it). If disambiguation can be achieved more naturally by using different name forms (as described previously on this page), then this is done. See, for example, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush." I'm just saying. Herostratus (talk) 13:40, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

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