Talk:William Shakespear (explorer)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Favonian (talk) 18:24, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

William Shakespear (explorer) → William Shakespear – This redirects to the disambiguation page at present. TBH I initally thought it would redirect to William Shakespeare, but this is the only article spelt William Shakespear, not William Shakespeare. Is anyone likely to mis-spell the poet's name? Unreal7 (talk) 10:17, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. "Shakespear" is a historical alternative spelling of the poet's name (see Spelling of William Shakespeare's name), and that meaning is probably far more common than this fairly obscure explorer. Ucucha (talk) 15:10, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Ucucha. People are likely to "mis-spell" the poet's name. The undisambigged title should redirect to the Bard. Konjakupoet (talk) 16:41, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose the playwright is also spelled this way, it's not a misspelling. -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 23:06, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose - per all above. In ictu oculi (talk) 16:59, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I always look at titles from the viewpoint of the people Wikipedia was initially aimed at, namely the uninformed reader. So in answer to the question, yes uninformed readers could quite easily be confused between this spelling and the one with an "-e" at the end. Green Giant (talk) 17:25, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
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