Talk:James G. Martin

factual error in James Martin's write-up
The former NC governor did NOT grant clemency to Jon Lee Benson. Instead, the NC Supreme Court found that death sentence to be disproportionate. See State v. Benson, 323 n.c. 318 (1988).

Gov. Martin DID grant clemency to death row prisoner Anson Maynard in January 1992 because of questions about his guilt.

66.83.107.90 (talk) 16:48, 7 July 2008 (UTC)gretchen m. engel, durham, nc
 * I am surprised it has taken this long to correct this error. Maybe not enough people are paying attention to this article. The whole article needs some work, anyway. I went ahead and took out the supposed "Controversy" section. It was not the Governor that really commuted the sentence, but the North Carolina Supreme Court. See the court case listed above and also this Jacksonville Daily News article. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 05:06, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Gov. Martin was the THIRD (not 2nd) Republican elected governor of NC since Reconstruction, which ended in NC in the early 1870's. 1896--Daniel Russell--NOT Reconstruction, but GOP-Populist fusion. 1972--James Holshouser (see Wikipedia article on NC governors)Jakob3 (talk) 23:46, 20 December 2012 (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. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: no consensus. Jenks24 (talk) 07:12, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

James G. Martin → Jim Martin (North Carolina politician) – Martin is more commonly known as Jim, not James G. A google search for "Jim Martin" returns 8000+ results on NewsObserver.com, the newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, while only about 40 for "James G. Martin". Most media in this age refer to him as Jim, like this magazine profile from 2011. Follow WP:COMMONNAME. Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 11:29, 5 August 2014 (UTC) Arbor to SJ (talk) 16:38, 29 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose. There is a disambiguation issue, and James G. Martin is a WP:NATURALDIS: If it exists, choose an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title. He is not unknown as "James G. Martin", and numerous sources use that style, including biography on NCPedia, National Governors Association. North Carolina History Project and a Memorial Building in his honor. No such user (talk) 10:43, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * But what about Jerry Brown or Ted Kennedy? "Official documents" by governments use their fuller names (Edumnd G. Brown or Edward M. Kennedy), but Wikipedia uses their common names. Arbor to SJ (talk) 16:10, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Being WP:PRIMARYTOPICs, they don't have to be disambiguated, do they? Since Martin does, we treat his fuller name as the "second best" choice rather than the parenthetical disambiguation. I concede that the edge is thin, but the current title seems like a better encyclopedic choice to me. We don't fancy "official names" in general, but when the choice gets limited, they'll do. No such user (talk) 20:55, 7 August 2014 (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.

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