Talk:Prab Gill

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Requested move 15 August 2017[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved as proposed. (non-admin closure) Steel1943 (talk) 00:28, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Prabhdeep Gill → Prab Gill – WP:COMMONNAME. Although Gill ran with the name Prabhdeep on the ballot, he has been universally referred to in the media as Prab since his election. He also goes by Prab in his official legislative biography. Right now, Prab is a redirect and Prabhdeep is the article; those should be switched. Madg2011 (talk) 18:27, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Nominator is entirely correct about what happened here — his full name is what was reflected on the ballot, so it's where we started the article when he was declared the winner, but since he's been an officeholder the short form has become much more clearly the correct COMMONNAME. Bearcat (talk) 23:32, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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@Madg2011 and Bearcat: Can one of you (or anyone else) update the article to reflect the name change? I'm unsure how to do that without breaking the article due to the foreign language symbols. Steel1943 (talk) 00:31, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We don't actually have to do that at all — the rule is that the page title needs to be at the common name, but the page's content can use the full name if one is known. Bearcat (talk) 00:33, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Bearcat: That's good to know! Just for my information, is there a policy stating that so I can either refer to it later or read up on it so I better remember this in the future? Steel1943 (talk) 00:35, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

MOS:FULLNAME clarifies how we handle it, if you want to read up on it. Bearcat (talk) 00:37, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; until now, I thought that the article title always had to be in the lead. I may have seen exceptions in the past, but I cannot recall any off the top of my head. Steel1943 (talk) 00:51, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]