Talk:Michael Barber (educationist)

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: Moved to Michael Barber (educationist), I trust the earlier editors who supported the honorific-less title would not find issue with this option as it preserves the dab. Even the opposer's argument favors this outcome. As for merging Michael Barber with Mike Barber, I will let follow-up on that. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  19:42, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Sir Michael Barber → Michael Barber – Per Manual of Style we don't use honorifics in page names. Cf Michael Caine, Michael Gambon and assorted other Sir Michaels Itsmejudith (talk) 10:28, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - that's easy Red Slash 16:48, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. This should be uncontroversial. Thryduulf (talk) 21:48, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Not sure - I though we do use Sir sometimes, and what happens to the dab Michael Barber? In ictu oculi (talk) 10:38, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The obvious thing to do with the dab would be to merge it to the existing dab at Mike Barber. I'll alert the dab talk pages of this discussion. Thryduulf (talk) 15:54, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose No evidence has been put forward for why this Michael Barber is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC - there are a lot of this name. If evidence is put forward, the dab should be moved to Michael Barber (disambiguation). Boleyn (talk) 18:29, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Move to Michael Barber (educationist). No primary topic, but we shouldn't use his title either (see Talk:Christopher White (art historian), which has recently been closed). -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:19, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Move to Michael Barber (educationist) per wp:ncroy and wp:primarytopic walk victor falktalk 10:23, 19 May 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.

Out of date methinks
This article is important and seems out of date. Adding to my mental list of updates in progress - anyone interested? - Sara FB (talk) 20:39, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey Sarah - as it happens I've got a bunch of sources & research I pulled together in making a film about the subject. If any of it would be of use here I'd be happy to help. See here : http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/opened13 for some links. I'm a little nervous about diving in given WP:BLP and such...

User:dkernohan Dkernohan (talk) 12:31, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

No criticism?
A little hagiographic in tone, doesn't mention some well-regarded criticism of Pakistan work for example? http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/data-guide-sir-michael-barber-s-good-news-pakistan Mithra26 (talk) 19:54, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

COI tag (January 2022)
The following two SPA accounts have edited this page:,. Between them they have contributed almost half of the page's content. I'm concerned about possible peacocking/POV issues. Jr8825 •  Talk  03:38, 7 January 2022 (UTC)