Talk:Michael Johnson (Alaska politician)

Requested move 6 April 2022

 * 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. (non-admin closure) NW1223&lt;Howl at me&bull;My hunts&gt; 16:52, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Michael Johnson (Alaska politician) → Michael Johnson (educator) – WP:ATDAB suggests that parenthetical disambiguators be kept as short and sweet as possible. The "Alaska politician" disambiguator is overused and even outright abused in some cases. The position Johnson holds is not a political position per se. Among Alaska's gubernatorial cabinet members, most heads of principal executive branch departments are strictly gubernatorial appointees and can therefore be considered political positions by nature. The exceptions are the heads of the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, who are both required to have a masters degree and professional experience in that field, and who are appointed by boards rather than the governor. This move would make things as unambiguous as possible, especially since notability is not temporary and it's not guaranteed that Johnson will be in this or a similar position X number of years down the road. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 03:14, 6 April 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • C • L) 08:23, 16 April 2022 (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 as proposed. Michael D. Johnson and Michael P. Johnson are also educators. But he's not a politician either, so support moving away from the current disambiguator. Michael Johnson (Alaska educator) or Michael Johnson (Alaska official) would be better. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:33, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment I could be missing something but wouldn't simply Michael Johnson (Alaska) work best. Esolo5002 (talk) 12:52, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * No. He isn't an Alaska. This isn't how we disambiguate people. We disambiguate them with what they are. The only exception (for some bizarre reason) is some sportspeople. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:48, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose educator. He seems to be notable because of his position as the Commissioner of Education. He might not otherwise merit an article as an "educator". I don't see anything especially terrible about the current title, but Michael Johnson (Alaska official) might be more accurate. Station1 (talk) 07:44, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Mike Johnson (Louisiana politician) which is of relevance to this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. TarnishedPathtalk 23:46, 26 October 2023 (UTC)