Talk:Humphrey Marshall (politician)

United States Ambassadors to China
I decided to remove the US Ambassadors to China template from the article since it was his grandson Humphrey Marshall (general) who was US Commissioner to China 1852–1854.128.214.205.5 (talk) 10:44, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: closing discussion because page is already moved. I was about to move it, per this discussion, but it's already been done. - GTBacchus(talk) 20:25, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Humphrey Marshall (Kentucky) → Humphrey Marshall (Senator) – Relisted. Vegaswikian (talk) 17:57, 5 August 2011 (UTC) It looks like the proposed title is where this page started out. It was then moved to Humphrey Marshall (politician), but this is insufficient to distinguish him from Humphrey Marshall (general), who served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Second Confederate Congress. It was then moved to it's present location, which is still insufficient to distinguish him from the general, who was also from Kentucky. I propose to move the article back to Humphrey Marshall (Senator) (although I'm open to other suggestions). We then need to make Humphrey Marshall (Kentucky) a disambiguation page, imo, or at least have it point to Humphrey Marshall, which is already a disambiguation page for these two and the similarly spelled Humphry Marshall. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 15:50, 29 July 2011 (UTC) Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 15:50, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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Discussion

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 * Move to Humphrey Marshall (politician), our usual disambiguator. -- Necrothesp (talk) 21:32, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I would oppose this move as still too ambiguous, given that the general also held both U.S. and Confederate political offices, as mentioned below. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 13:25, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Move to Humphrey Marshall (Virginia politician). The general was also a politician. Marcus   Qwertyus   03:32, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I also don't think this is appropriate. He only represented Virginia at the constitutional convention. He came to Kentucky when he was only 20 years old (although it was still a county of Virginia for another 12 years). After Kentucky became a state, he served in the Kentucky General Assembly and represented that state in the U.S. Senate. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 13:25, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Move per nom. (politician) is unsuitable as the general was also a politician. (Virginia politician) is unsuitable as it overemphasises that aspect of his career. Tassedethe (talk) 20:24, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Question - If we use "(Senator)" as a disambiguator, should it be capitalized or not? -GTBacchus(talk) 17:42, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Move to Humphrey Marshall (politician). He is best known for being a politician, whereas Humphrey Marshall (general) is best known for being an American Civil War general.  A hatnote can be used to add extra clarification.    A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 02:34, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Move to Humphrey Marshall (politician). There is no other candidate for this article name, that aspect of the general's career having fallen into obscurity, so it's the correct level of precision. Andrewa (talk) 12:25, 7 August 2011 (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. No further edits should be made to this section.

Formatting
There seems to be a bug on my computer when I edit and it randomly places en.wikipedia.org in the text. Can someone undo my edits? Jomanted (talk) 03:25, 28 April 2012 (UTC)