Talk:Tom Higgins (footballer)

Disambiguation of this person name
Twice before, it appears, this article was moved from "Tom Higgins", for disambiguation (such as to "Tom Higgins (sportsman)", and twice it was reverted.

Please do not revert this article to "Tom Higgins" again. There is no justification for leaving the undisambiguated title "Tom Higgins" pointing to a stub about a north American football player and coach. Contrary to the myopic perception of a few north American sport fanatics, the rest of the English speaking world does not revolve around north American sports people, especially in the sport American football in which almost nobody else has even a scintilla of interest. Such people are in global terms nonentities, arguably not even notable enough to be covered by Wikipedia at all; they are certainly no more notable for Wikipedia inclusion purposes than artists, other sports personalities, and other moderately public figures who happen to have the same name!

It is unclear to me whether previous contributors who attempted to move "Tom Higgins (footballer" to a disambiguated title went on to create the proper "Tom Higgins" titled disambiguation page with other entries. I have made a start on that, although there is only one other Tom Higgins fully written up in Wikipedia itself. There would nevertheless appear to be more than enough other people of this name of at least equal notability to be mentioned in an encyclopaedia of this kind, to ensure that no careful Wikipedian would claim that the best course for the future was not leaving "Tom Higgins" showing the list of people with that name which I have created containing seven such people.

Iph 12:38, 28 October 2007 (UTC)Iph