Talk:Richard Byrnes

Rename rationale
The original page for this article was found at Richard Byrne (brevet brigadier general). Naming conventions (people) has the following to say about page titling in cases of disambiguation: "The disambiguator is usually a noun indicating what the person is noted for being. Some of these are standard, commonly-used tags, such as '(musician)' and '(politician)'. Try to avoid abbreviations or anything capitalised or containing hyphens, dashes or numbers (apart from where more specific guidelines specify particular exceptions to that), and also try to limit the tag to a single, recognisable and highly applicable word. Years of birth and death are not normally used as disambiguators (readers are more likely to be seeking this information than to already know it)." My logic for moving was as follows. First, other than the title, there was not a single mention of brevet in the entire article. Frankly, I had to go to the Brigadier General page to find the link to the brevet page to figure out what it meant. Then, while his rank is a good identifier if there were multiple wikipedia articles about other military Richard Byrnes, there aren't. "Soldier" is a commonly-used tag, and the policy indicates that the tag should be limited to a single highly applicable word. Regardless of his rank, he was still a soldier, hence the move. -- Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû  (blah?)  05:58, 13 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Also, according to the article, he died before the order promoting him to Brigadier General was signed. Brevet or otherwise. So the article title was a misnomer anyway since he never received the rank. -- Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû  (blah?)  06:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)