Talk:Stephen Mitchell

There will be some information about the Stephen Mitchell who was head of BBC news programmes to say that he resigned from this position in December 2012, although there has been some dispute about whether he resigned or retired. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 16:47, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Stephen A. Mitchell at Harvard
I will freely admit that I Stephen A. Mitchell, an academic at Harvard, listed in this dab page because he is an author/editor in an actual/potential source I use. But I am not connected with in any WP:COI way whatsoever.

2RR's me while arguing "the purpose of the description is to give the best minimal info that will guide the reader to the right entry. Being a professor.. is that description; being curator..won't mean much..".

However, MOS:DABRED does not stipulate this (primary characteristic, or "best minimal info") as an additional requirement for validity. You are overreaching. All it says is that if " 'flibbygibby' is mentioned in its respectively linked article, it is considered a valid entry".

And purging my edit to un-mention the name in the target article thereby causing the requirement to be un-met is unnecessarily vindictive behavior IMHO. --Kiyoweap (talk) 14:08, 6 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Calm down. I the <! -- -->, which caused the entry to not appear, was in the earlier version of the page didn't realize; I that fixed now have. The relevant guideline (WP:DABONE) is: Keep the description associated with a link to a minimum, just sufficient to allow the reader to find the correct link. EEng 15:32, 6 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes, I do realize that someone else commented out the entry before, citing WP:MOSDAB. That is why I went to check and realized the MOS:DABRED criterion was not met, hence I produced a mention in the Milman Parry article to satisfy the requirement.
 * I don't completely disagree with your 1R since I added Mitchell's name as curator while detailed info on the MP Collection itself was still wanting, but I was still researching this area.


 * As for your WP:DABONE, the concept of what is minimal enough to distinguish without ambiguity is subjective, and you are pushing your own view of it.
 * I am averse to using "(Scandinavian scholar)" as a dab qualifier at all, because it could also mean e.g. a scholar with mixed Scandinavian ancestry, even though in our particular case the surname Mitchell would make that seem unlikely.
 * Also, some readers may be completely unaware this Mitchell also writes articles for Scandinavian Studies etc., so no, the MP Collection bit is not entirely superfluous either. --Kiyoweap (talk) 17:18, 6 January 2021 (UTC)