Talk:L. Ball

Proposed deletion - Opposed
Some examples:


 * Minor Planets Discovery Circumstances (and numerous other MPC pages) use L. Ball to refer to Loren C. Ball
 * Querying the NASA ADS for "Ball, L." returns publications variously by Lewis T. Ball, L. R. Ball, and Loren C. Ball - some attempt is made to disambig them as e.g. L. T. Ball or L. C. Ball, but some Wikipedia users are bound to drop the middle initial (or the paper may not use it, as in Lewis Ball's Probing pulsar winds using inverse Compton scattering
 * this refers to Laurence Ball, economist as "L. Ball"
 * etc.

Sooner or later, if we replace (not delete!) the L. Ball page with a redirect to Loren C. Ball, there will arise a use of one of the other L. Balls and we will be back to a dab page.

Urhixidur (talk) 18:52, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Then it could be replaced with a redirect to Ball (surname) instead? -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:06, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

That sounds like a good idea, as all of these will be listed there or could easily be added. Hndis (talk) 12:39, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

I have added these to the Ball (surname) page and redirected this page. If anyone objects, feel free to move it back again/contact me and I will, but this seems to be the consensus. Hndis (talk) 16:33, 1 October 2008 (UTC)