Talk:William Bartlett (discus thrower)

Requested move 13 December 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. Per consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 00:03, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

– per WP:NCSP; "To avoid the conflict between general sportspeople and the sport of athletics (track and field), it's best to disambiguate by event category rather than use a generic "(athlete)" suffix." Joeykai (talk) 23:45, 13 December 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * William Bartlett (athlete) → William Bartlett (discus thrower)
 * Carl Brown (athlete) → Carl Brown (discus thrower)
 * James Duncan (athlete) → James Duncan (discus thrower)
 * Support per nomination. The parenthetical qualifier "(discus thrower)" has been commonly used — Kevin Brown (discus thrower), Kim Byeong-gi (discus thrower), Anil Kumar (discus thrower), David Martínez (discus thrower), Jason Morgan (discus thrower), Dmitry Shevchenko (discus thrower), Vitaliy Sidorov (discus thrower), Makhan Singh (discus thrower), Henry Smith (discus thrower) or Roland Varga (discus thrower), to name but ten. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 07:12, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. "Athlete" is a terrible disambiguator. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:07, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * It works sometimes with athletes that play in multiple disciplines, especially if they're the only athletes with the name.
 * And that's the only time it should be used. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:59, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 15:39, 14 December 2022 (UTC)