Talk:Mohammad Abdullah (academic)



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The result of the move request was: page moved. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 17:10, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 3 March 2019
Professor Mohammad Abdullah (Politician) → Mohammad Abdullah (academic) – Professor Mohammad Abdullah (Politician) violates WP:NCBIO and MOS:CREDENTIAL by starting the title of a biographical article with their professional title, violates WP:NCPDAB by capitalizing the parenthetical disambiguation, and violates WP:ATDAB by using two forms of disambiguation instead of only as much additional detail as necessary.

Mohammad Abdullah is a DAB page. An attempt was made to use natural disambiguation with the title Mohammad Ali Abdullah, "Ali" supposedly being a family nickname, but no reliable published source has been cited for it. He is notable as a politician, but Mohammad Abdullah (politician) is already used for a different Bangladeshi politician.

One possibility would be to add the district from which he was elected as a further disambiguation: Mohammad Abdullah (Chandpur politician). However, in reliable sources that mention both politicians (such as parliament's list of all members) he is usually distinguished from the other by the word "professor". This suggests that Mohammad Abdullah (professor) or Mohammad Abdullah (academic) would best satisfy the criteria of recognizability, naturalness, precision, and conciseness. Of the two words, it's more common on Wikipedia to use the disambiguator (academic), but I have no objection to (professor) if that is thought better.

I moved an earlier bad name, Professor Mohammad Abdullah (Ali), to Mohammad Abdullah (academic) to comply with the naming conventions. But editor moved it again to Professor Mohammad Abdullah (Politician), so disagreement with any move is expected from that quarter. They subsequently created a content fork with trivial history at Mohammad Abdullah (academic), but it is up for speedy deletion under A10, which would make way for this requested move. Worldbruce (talk) 14:22, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
 * That looks like the best way to handle this. I added a source to Mohammad Abdullah (academic) without realising that it was a duplicate article, so this should be kept, as it is the original, and the title Mohammad Abdullah (academic) is as good as any. In response to the attempt to include "professor" in the title I would note that we have articles entitled Muhammad and Jesus, not "the prophet Muhammad" and "Jesus Christ", so unless the professor wants to make his title seem more important than theirs we should omit the word from our title. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:39, 3 March 2019 (UTC)


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