Talk:Alexander Wilson

Requested move 25 March 2016

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The result of the move request was: Two moves to be done via technical request or something; I'll work on that. Without prejudice against wbm1058's idea of finding a better disambiguator than ornithologist. Dicklyon (talk) 04:34, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Alexander Wilson (disambiguation) → Alexander Wilson – The |Alexander_Wilson_(writer_and_spy) pageview comparison shows more pageviews for the writer and spy. In view of the large number of people with this name without a primary topic I suggest to use Alexander Wilson as the disambiguation page. Inwind (talk) 13:11, 25 March 2016 (UTC)


 * procedural close the target is occupied by an article, and requested moves cannot be used for deletion. The nominator has proposed to overwrite an existing article with a different page. Requested Moves cannot be used to simply overwrite articles, which is what WP:AfD Deletion is for, to delete the article first, before you move a different page into the newly unoccupied location. -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 06:20, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The nominator has updated the request -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 03:39, 29 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I missed the second move which is: Alexander Wilson → Alexander Wilson (ornithologist). Inwind (talk) 20:14, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Support both moves. It appears that the ornithologist isn't the primary topic.--Cúchullain t/ c 21:26, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Support. Too common a name for him to be primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:13, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Wilson was a poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator. Is Alexander Wilson (ornithologist) too narrow a disambiguation term? Noting that Scottish literature in the eighteenth century says "Major poets writing in the radical tradition of Burns include Alexander Wilson (1766–1813), whose outspoken views forced him into emigration to the US." Note in the "selected biographies" section that some refer to Wilson as a "Poet-Naturalist". There are over 100 links here to disambiguate if there is no primary topic; most do seem to go to the correct target. wbm1058 (talk) 15:23, 17 April 2016 (UTC)


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I haved moved the ornithologist and put in a request to have the redirect deleted and the disambig page moved, but there are still a ton of links to it. I've updated quite a few already to "Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)|" (the pipe trick), but many more need action. See: Special:WhatLinksHere/Alexander_Wilson. I hope those who supported this move will chip in to help fix it. Dicklyon (talk) 04:46, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

– Your help in fixing incoming links to Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)| would be a big help here. Special:WhatLinksHere/Alexander_Wilson. Dicklyon (talk) 05:14, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅, but for a couple that I'm not sure of. wbm1058 (talk) 12:18, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Alexander Wilson
lived in Lahore as a principal of local college and wrote spy thrillers. 205.164.154.84 (talk) 13:05, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
 * That is Alexander Wilson (English writer). DuncanHill (talk) 13:23, 2 July 2023 (UTC)