Talk:Marc Phillips

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Requested move 19 April 2024

 * The following is a closed 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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lightoil (talk) 16:40, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

– There are three similarly-named politicians — Mark Phillips, Mark Philips and Marc Phillips. The first — Mark Phillips (Guyanese politician) — is fully disambiguated, with Mark Phillips (politician) currently a redlink. The second — Mark Philips (politician) — is only partially disambiguated, with Mark Philips redirecting to the Mark Phillips (disambiguation) page and Mark Philips (English politician) currently a redlink. The third — Marc Phillips — is not disambiguated, with Marc Phillips (politician) and Marc Phillips (Welsh politician) currently represented by redlinks. If this nomination succeeds, Mark Phillips (politician), Mark Philips (politician) and Marc Phillips (politician) should all redirect to the Mark Phillips (disambiguation) page along with Marc Phillips and Mark Philips, the last of which already redirects there. If consensus prefers an alternative option, per WP:SMALLDIFFERENCES, I would support this page's Marc Phillips — who is Wikipedia's sole "Marc Phillips" — remaining as is. Analogously, Mark Philips (politician) — who is likewise Wikipedia's sole "Mark Philips" — should then be moved to Mark Philips. Finally, Mark Phillips (Guyanese politician) — who is Wikipedia's sole politician named "Mark Phillips" — should be moved to Mark Phillips (politician). A partial version of this nomination was unsuccessful at Talk:Mark Phillips. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 21:12, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Marc Phillips → Marc Phillips (Welsh politician)
 * Mark Philips (politician) → Mark Philips (English politician)
 * Oppose moving this page, only famous person with this spelling of the name. No opinion on the other moves. Warofdreams talk 21:44, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The English politician is likewise the only famous person with this spelling of the name. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:04, 19 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Rename both. "Mark" vs. "Marc" is a triviality. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:42, 19 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Weak oppose 1st per WP:SMALLDIFFERENCES. Support 2nd per WP:INCOMPLETEDISAMBIGUATION. estar8806 (talk) ★ 16:22, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose first. Unlike punctuation, spelling is a commonly recognised difference. Move Mark Philips (politician) to Mark Philips. Only one here. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:06, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose, on the basis he spells his name differently. A link (as already exists) to Mark Phillips (disambiguation) should be quite adequate ...though it's very unclear whether he meets WP:GNG anyway, it might be better just to AFD it. Sionk (talk) 21:37, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose and instead support ALT1 suggested by Roman Spinner in the nom (but not so labelled): Keep Marc Phillips, move Mark Philips (politician) to Mark Philips and move Mark Phillips (Guyanese politician) to Mark Phillips (politician). Use hatnotes on all three pages for clarification: This article is about the Guyanese politician. For the English politician, see Mark Philips. For the Welsh politician, see Marc Phillips., etc. This on the basis that differences in spelling, however minor, are sufficient for disambiguating topics in article titles – that's roughly what WP:SMALLDIFFERENCES is about, although it doesn't directly address the issue of different letters in a spelling. If anything, differing letters might be a more substantial difference than the differing capitalisations and differing punctuation which WP:SMALLDIFFERENCES does cover. Ham II (talk) 09:19, 24 April 2024 (UTC)