Talk:Smithers

Requested move 24 February 2015

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The result of the move request was: Move Smithers (name) to Smithers and Smithers to Smithers (disambiguation). Smithers (surname) will be a redirect to the basename. Cúchullain t/ c 13:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Smithers (name) → Smithers (surname) – currently confusingly redirects to Smith; yet we have a surname article for Smithers, so this should be moved to that title, to indicate the scope of this article, as surname articles should use "surname", while "name" covers names that are both surnames and given names, and "given name" is for given names. This article does not include any given name variants. -- 70.51.200.101 (talk) 07:12, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * Strong support. I would go one further and make the surname the primary topic, thereby moving it to just Smithers, with the disambiguation page moved to Smithers (disambiguation). bd2412  T 19:12, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Move to Smithers and move Smithers to Smithers (disambiguation) per bd2412 &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 22:28, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Discussion

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 * No need for discussion. You could just redirect Smithers (surname) here. But if you want to go ahead, I can't imagine anybody would argue against it. Just tag the surname redirect with a Template:db-move, and an administrator will come along and delete that page, allowing this one to be renamed. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:41, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
 * it's a change in the target/topic of the redirect, so I put it up for discussion -- 70.51.200.101 (talk) 06:43, 25 February 2015 (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.

Need for further move of this page to Smithers (disambiguation)
I was looking for "Smithers, British Columbia," entered "Smithers" as the search term, and was directed to this page, where there was no mention of the town. I've added a connection between Sir Alfred Smithers and the town that was named after him, but I really think that this page should be part of an expanded disambiguation page for "Smithers." While the town of Smithers is only 5,000, it is an important regional centre, so lots of people may search for it using "Smithers" as a search term. Any discussion of this before I propose the move? Sunray (talk) 16:27, 29 August 2015 (UTC)