Talk:Samaniego (surname)

Requested move 1 August 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved as clarified in discussion -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:36, 8 August 2018 (UTC) JHunterJ (talk) 12:36, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

– This article is effectively a disambiguation page, listing 16 people with the surname Samaniego and three places with the name in their title. The standard procedure would be to make this a straight disambiguation page for the name, with the text "Samaniego may refer to: 1. People (followed by the list of people) 2. Places (followed by the list of places)". This would be clearer than making it a list of names and adding three hatnotes about the places. There is no evidence that the town in Spain would be an obvious primary article – it would need to be moved to a new name, and the naming convention for distinguishing articles about towns in Spain is to title them Alameda, Spain, etc. so Samaniego, Spain would be in line with this naming convention. I have spoken to the article's creator and they have no objection to my proposal – see User talk:Cohee. Richard3120 (talk) 11:02, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
 * List of people with surname Samaniego → Samaniego
 * Samaniego → Samaniego, Spain


 * Oppose the first, Support the second. List of people with surname Samaniego should instead be moved to Samaniego (surname). A dab page can be created at the base term which links to the surname and the three places, since there certainly isn't a primary topic. &mdash;Xezbeth (talk) 12:06, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Just to be clear, are you suggesting the creation of both Samaniego (surname) and Samaniego (disambiguation)? Richard3120 (talk) 12:13, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, there are more than enough name-holders for the article to stand alone from a dab page. Surname lists do not technically belong in dab pages. &mdash;Xezbeth (talk) 12:17, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, so the disambiguation page would be "1. People. See Samaniego (surname) 2. Places". I don't have an issue with that. Richard3120 (talk) 12:32, 1 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Support User:Xezbeth's scheme, except that the disambiguation page would be at the base name, with Samaniego (disambiguation) a redirect to the base name per WP:INTDAB. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:42, 2 August 2018 (UTC)


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