Talk:Henry Herbert

Merge proposal
We tend to dab by personal name only, rather than full name including middle name. Having 2 dabs, one for Henry Herbert and one for Henry Arthur Herbert there's a clear risk of people not finding what they're looking for, or not finding it easily, even with the 'see also'. Also, there are hardly so many Henry Herberts that a separate dab for those who share a middle name as well is necessary. Boleyn3 (talk) 21:15, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Since there are so many "Henry Arthur Herbert" I find that page very useful! As long as there is a special page I can see no reason why the people so named are mentioned here as well! Fernbom2 (talk) 06:39, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I really don't see any potential for confusion in having two dabs, provided that all the Henry Arthur Herberts are also listed at Henry Herbert, which they now are. That way someone using WP:POPUPS to dab a link to 'Henry Herbert' will find them all listed, but someone looking for 'Henry Arthur Herbert' doesn't get confronted by a longer list of irrelevancies. That seems to me like a win-win situation. In this case, there are not so many 'Henry Herbert's that the main dab will be overpowering, so merger will not cause too much of a problem, but nor does it bring any benefits to readers or editors. If the merger does go ahead, please make sure to tag the redirect with R to disambiguation page. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:46, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * To avoid confusion - if someone is looking for 'Henry Arthur Herbert' it is likely, but not definite, that the full name dab will have it on there. If they type in 'Henry Herbert' they could be looking for Henry Herberts with any middle name. Boleyn2 (talk) 10:59, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I see no objection, PROVIDED the existing 'Henry Arthur Herbert' dab page is kept as a redirect: they are all in this page as well. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:55, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose merge. I was the creator of the Henry Arthur Herbert dab page, as part of the process of disambiguating the three members of the same family who shared the same name and occupation.