Talk:Erica N. Walker

Requested move 12 June 2019

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Moved. There is no issue with a conflict-of-interest move request if it garners the consensus of the community. And with the WP:COMMONNAME / MOS:IDENTITY arguments, and indeed the fact that the move to the current title was made without discussion, I see a consensus to revert back to the pre-2017 name. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Erica Walker → Erica N. Walker – Dr. Walker has requested this change for the purposes of uniformity. In my capacity as her research assistant, I am placing this request on her behalf. jonthon (talk) 04:25, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support Erica Walker → Erica N. Walker since the form with the middle initial is indeed her pen name and her professional name. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 07:35, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Her common name does appear to be Erica Walker, even on her university webpage. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:22, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose move for conflict of interest.  O.N.R.  (talk) 03:06, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support reversion of this undiscussed move from 2017. Although both versions are common and used in refs in this article, some columbia.edu and other websites use the initial, so it seems reasonable to use the subject's preferred professional name. (And although there would have been a conflict of interest if the nom had moved the page unilaterally, opening this discussion for community input while disclosing a relationship is exactly the right way to proceed.) Station1 (talk) 05:34, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support. If someone wants to be referred to by a certain name, it seems only fair (and it's not like it's never used, per Station1). And I don't really see what the COI is here... Nohomersryan (talk) 19:13, 15 June 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.