Talk:William Mackinnon

Requested move 19 November 2019

 * 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: Consensus to not move. Good faith nomination, basically the best way to make a request to move disambiguation page Foo to Foo (disambiguation) is to demonstrate that Foo is the primary topic and we would either put a hatnote linking Foo (bar) or if there is Foo bar, Foo (bar), Foobar and Foo-bar, they'd get listed at Foo (disambiguation), which would be linked at the hatnote. But again, that requires the determination of a primary topic. If you're new to the process, feel free to leave a message on my talk page and I can help you with it further. (closed by non-admin page mover)  SITH   (talk)   11:08, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

William Mackinnon → William Mackinnon (disambiguation) – It would be clearer Laterthanyouthink (talk) 04:17, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The WP:PRIMARYTOPIC has not been specified in the nomination and there is no indication that it exists. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 09:43, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:MALPLACED, unless a primary topic is proposed. Station1 (talk) 17:28, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Not how we do things. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:41, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Station1, we don't qualify pages unless needed although Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet gets the most views he's probably unlikely to be primary for this term.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 17:59, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment I didn't realise that there had to be a primary topic in order to create a page with (disambiguation) after it. When I wandered into the minefield of McKinnons and Mackinnons and Mackinnons I found it very confusing, so I thought that this step with the Williams might make one part of it clearer. There's already a primary William Mckinnon, a Scottish footballer who has a redirection page to a US politician. If you just enter mckinnon (mobile app), it takes you to McKinnon Secondary College, although there's a McKinnon page about the surname and McKinnon (disambiguation). Then there is MacKinnon, which includes Mackinnon, which lists people with the surname spelt that way. Back in the old days, both forms of all words and names beginning Mc or Mac were alphabetised in catalogues and indexes as Mac, partly because many people are not sure how their particular target is spelt, and partly because the spelling even in the same family has varied over time. (I'm wandering off-topic a bit here, but this is what led me to this suggestion. It might be more useful to collapse those two surname spellings instead, which a redirect from all variations to the main one.) Laterthanyouthink (talk) 23:23, 20 November 2019 (UTC)


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