Talk:John Lewis (electronic musician)

Requested move 14 October 2021

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The result of the move request was: moved to John Lewis (electronic musician) (non-admin closure) &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 17:01, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

John Lewis (musician) → John Lewis (musician, died 1982) – Ambiguous with John Lewis (pianist) and Jona Lewie. 207.161.86.162 (talk) 02:02, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Given the uncertainty around the subject's death date, I support John Lewis (electronic musician), as proposed by below, instead of my original proposal. 207.161.86.162 (talk) 03:51, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). McMatter (talk)/(contrib) 22:12, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * Whilst I agree in principle, the new title should be John Williams (British musician) John Lewis (British musician). The pianist was American and Jona Lewie is not actually known as John Lewis. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:44, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Don't you mean John Lewis (British musician)? --Ahecht ([[User talk:Ahecht|TALK
 * I would be most supportive of that if we were to have a citation for the subject being British. We should probably be cautious of putting unsourced claims in the article title. 207.161.86.162 (talk) 01:44, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * The first reference in the article calls him a "Canadian programmer". Coverage about him is so slim that I'm considering Afd-ing the article. No such user (talk) 07:38, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I think that's definitely worthy of consideration (though I don't claim to be especially knowledgable about the application of our notability criteria to musicians). 207.161.86.162 (talk) 02:40, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you have any evidence of the subject being British? 207.161.86.162 (talk) 02:40, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment In the meantime, I found more sources about the subject and expanded the article somewhat. The subject was born and educated in Canada, moved to Great Britain at the age of twenty-something, and worked there as a composer and author, chiefly of electronic and incidental music. Here, the main source of ambiguity is John Lewis (pianist), who was also a musician and a composer. The most recognizable disambiguator here is actually genre, so something like John Lewis (electronic musician) vs. John Lewis (jazz) would work best. Barring that, I suppose John Lewis (British musician) will do. No such user (talk) 07:29, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Move to John Lewis (musician, died 1984). Given the ambiguity that the additional research has brought up, it would seem that disambiguating by the year we know would be the best policy per WP:NCPDAB. -- Necrothesp (talk) 07:52, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Not even 1984 is 100% certain; I only inferred it from the Workshop source : he died shortly thereafter; it might even be early 1985. Besides, years of birth/death should only be used as the last resort, and here, either nationality or genre would be much more useful. No such user (talk) 08:46, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I've changed the death date in the article to "c. 1984" accordingly. 207.161.86.162 (talk) 03:49, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Support John Lewis (electronic musician) (as proposed by ) as we don't have a certain death year. And now that we know the subject's genre, that makes a much better qualifier in any case. I would be apprehensive about John Lewis (British musician) without a reference explicitly stating that the subject is British given his Canadian birth (though perhaps came across a source for that) and, regardless, it would still be slightly ambiguous with Jona Lewie. If we had a reference, though, I would be open to it. 207.161.86.162 (talk) 03:49, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

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