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The following discussion is an archived 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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move. It's clearly a close run thing, with some good arguments made on both sides, but as this debate has been relisted once and is again inactive for eight days, I would conclude it's not going anywhere new and therefore maintain the title that has stood for four years since 2009.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:00, 17 July 2013 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply]


– To bring the pages in line with the naming convention used in WP:FOOTY and also to provide consistency with Bobby Campbell (footballer born 1956) which is already disambiguated in that form. --Relisted. -- tariqabjotu 17:53, 29 June 2013 (UTC) Bladeboy1889 (talk) 07:23, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. Bladeboy1889 (talk) 07:33, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I find the move discussion, but I cannot find the edit warring over nationality. The history of that articles show a move-war in 2009, but that wasn't because of nationality or am I missing something? Mentoz86 (talk) 18:28, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
What? Being born in Liverpool and playing your entire professional career in England isn't enough? --BDD (talk) 17:58, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Mentoz86. We frequently resort to disambiguation by birth year in football given difficulties disambiguating by position, but birth year disambiguation should still only be used when other alternatives have been exhausted. Readers are more likely to know a person's nationality than birth year, and we should use the more helpful disambiguator. --BDD (talk) 17:58, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Primarily WP:NCPDAB, which had language to that effect until it was removed relatively recently—without discussion, as far as I can tell. Also just a dose of common sense. I could name you the nationality of every senior player on my favo(u)rite team, but I could only give you one or two birth years, and that's if I'm making lucky guesses. If one of these Bobby Campbells were born in the 90s, that might be one thing—you could easily look at the dates and figure out which one. As such, nationality seems much more useful for the core goal of distinguishing between the people. --BDD (talk) 19:08, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
n.b. That language at NCPDAB was around since 2008. --BDD (talk) 19:14, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.