Talk:Robert B. Anderson

Requested move 17 May 2025

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. (closed by non-admin page mover) Adumbrativus (talk) 03:32, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

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Robert B. Anderson (Texas politician) → Robert B. Anderson – WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Negligible views from the South Carolinian compared the Texan, and being part of a president's cabinet is way more notable than only serving in a State House. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 06:16, 17 May 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 15:11, 26 May 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 04:42, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose for clarity. There are probably other Robert B. Andersons on that list, even if they don't commonly use their middle initial. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:16, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

  I did a full search of all Robert Anderson's on the disambiguation page and only found two other Robert Anderson's with a middle inital with "B", Robert Ball Anderson and Robert Banneka Anderson Sr. But again, negligible views compared to the Texan. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 04:51, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Based on page views, the Texas politician does seem to be the primary topic for anyone at Robert Anderson with the middle initial "B". A separate Robert B. Anderson (disambiguation) should be created. Mdewman6 (talk) 02:59, 24 May 2025 (UTC)
  • That would be completely unnecessary, as it's covered by Robert Anderson. No need for a proliferation of dabpages. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:10, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

Your position makes little sense to me. In addition to not desiring to take the majority of users directly to the article about the person they seek, you want to bring everyone searching "Robert B. Anderson" to the catch-all disambiguation page Robert Anderson where there are by my count currently 59 entries, only of which ~4 could be "Robert B. Anderson". Since disambiguation is to help our users, let's give them a list of just the things they seek. For the rare case of someone looking for a Robert B. Anderson not indicated as such on enwiki, that's what a "See also" link to Robert Anderson is for. But let's not inconvenience literally everyone. Mdewman6 (talk) 08:00, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

In general, we do not have separate disambiguation pages for each variation in a name. We simply have a single disambiguation page. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:21, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

I agree in general, per WP:DABCOMBINE, for a typical case where a dab lists less than 10 names and 2-3 have the same middle initial. But for a common combination of given name and surname like Robert Anderson, having sub-dab pages to facilitate navigation for our users is definitely warranted. Mdewman6 (talk) 06:24, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

I think if the move does go forward, a hatnote will suffice in redirecting the viewer to the main disambiguation page. There's really no need for another disambiguation page. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 14:28, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

• Support Meets the primary topic criteria on both pageviews and significance. Curbon7 (talk) 21:45, 11 June 2025 (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.