Talk:Holst (surname)

Requested move 9 November 2018[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 21:11, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Holst → Holst (name) – There are quite a few people listed on this page, but as far as I can tell Gustav Holst is the primary topic for this term, and the name should WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to his page. Certainly a Google search reveals results almost exclusively for Gustav. — Amakuru (talk) 21:37, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nomination. In the same manner that Bach redirects to Johann Sebastian Bach, Beethoven redirects to Ludwig van Beethoven, Brahms redirects to Johannes Brahms, Handel redirects to George Frideric Handel, Mozart redirects to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Puccini redirects to Giacomo Puccini, Rossini redirects to Gioachino Rossini, Tchaikovsky redirects to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Verdi redirects to Giuseppe Verdi and Wagner redirects to Richard Wagner, to name but ten, so should Holst redirect to Gustav Holst. In the English-speaking world, the use of stand-alone "Holst" can only refer to Gustav Holst. Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 00:42, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support. The name "article" is not much more than a WP:PTM farm. — AjaxSmack 03:00, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Clear primary redirect. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:05, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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(name) or (surname)?[edit]

I hate to bring this up after the above page move has been executed, but shouldn't the article title be Holst (surname)? A brief review and sampling of, for example Category:List-Class Anthroponymy articles indicates that, where a parenthetical qualifier is required for disambiguation, "(surname)" is used for articles, as here, where the name is exclusively used as a surname; "(given name)" is used for those articles where the entries are exclusively given names; and the unqualified "(name)" is used for those articles where the name is used both as a given name and surname. TJRC (talk) 01:56, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Having participated in this discussion, I agree. It would seem that the move from Holst (name) to Holst (surname) should not engender any opposition and would be most likely accepted under WP:RM#Uncontroversial technical requests. Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 08:05, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and made this move as it seems uncontroversial per the other examples. (I would argue that it should just be name per WP:CONCISE but this one shouldn't be a lone outlier). @Favonian: @AjaxSmack: @Necrothesp: as participants in the RM, feel free to revert if you disagree. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 08:33, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]