Talk:Bentley (disambiguation)

Richard Bentley is the "Dr. Bentley, the librarian who saved the Codex Alexandrinus from the fire at the Cotton Library in 1731." Aramgar 19:21, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Subject: the name of the man who saved the Codex Alexandrinus

• The librarian, Dr. Bentley

Richard Bentley is the librarian who saved the Codex Alexandrinus ?

• Richard Bentley's nephew: ( ... - 1786 ) Richard Bentley's nephew, cf. Richard Bentley#Relationships and personal life
• The librarian, Dr. Bentley
• Richard Bentley (January 27, 1662 – July 14, 1742) was an English theologian, classical scholar and critic.

1. A classical scholar, classical scholar, and (January 27, 1662 – July 14, 1742)
2. Richard Bentley is: Dr. Bentley, the librarian who saved the Codex Alexandrinus ... (here, above) --Aramgar 19:21, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
3. Richard Bentley's nephew name: is Richard Bentley, too -- Richard Bentley#Relationships and personal life -- ... to his nephew, Richard Bentley -- ( In 1701, Bentley married Joanna (...) Though accused by his enemies of being grasping, he left less than £5000. A few Greek manuscripts, brought from Mount Athos, he left to the college library; his books and papers to his nephew, Richard Bentley. Richard, who was a fellow of Trinity, at his death in 1786 left the papers to the college library. The books, containing in many cases valuable manuscript notes, were purchased by the British Museum. ).

• And...

1. Cotton library#The Ashburnam House fire -- The librarian, Dr. Bentley, escaped the inferno clutching the Codex Alexandrinus under his arms, a scene witnessed and later described in...
2. Codex Alexandrinus#In Britain -- It was saved from the fire at Ashburnam House (Cotton library) on October 23, 1731, by the librarian, Bentley. /// & after the end-of-line/EOL /// Richard Bentley made collation ...

Apart, from this subject:

• Richard Bentley (publisher) (1794-1871), English printer and publisher of Bentley's Miscellany. Because fire's time: 1731 versus ( 1794-1871 ).

--PLA y Grande Covián (talk) 14:42, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Requested move 4 April 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 section.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) Calidum 23:27, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

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• Bentley (disambiguation) → Bentley
• Bentley → Bentley Motors Limited

– There are a large number of uses on the DAB page and while the company does get more views its own website includes "Motors" in the title. The university also gets a reasonable number of views. Others such as Austin Motor Company, Ford Motor Company and Lincoln Motor Company use the longer names at least for natural disambiguation and that would seem to be the case here. I suggest however that we keep the company at the top of the DAB since its likely the most likely topic but the places probably have more long-term significance. The company was founded by W. O. Bentley and H. M. Bentley and the surname derives from the places. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:24, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose for the following reasons: 1) Per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, as Bentley (which, per WP:COMMONNAME, should be used in preference to "Bentey Motors" as it is more commonly used) is clearly the primary topic (try comparing it, using this tool, with the other articles on the disambiguation page) for this search, the root title should continue to be used for "Bentley Motors". 2) Per WP:NCCORP the legal status suffix of a company ("Limited" in this case) should not generally be included in the article title. -- DeFacto (talk). 20:21, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose. Even the nom notes that the motor company is the most likely topic, so isn't that an argument to keep things as they are? Of all the current dab page entries, including the dab page itself, Bentley gets just over 70% of all page views (top ten here, the rest at [1], [2] & [3] for curious minds). The current arrangement reflects both WP:COMMONNAME and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. PC78 (talk) 00:42, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

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