Talk:Harry Allan (footballer)

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On 12 November 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Harry Allan (footballer, born unknown) to Harry Allan (footballer). The result of the discussion was moved.

Requested move 12 November 2023 edit

Latest comment: 6 months ago12 comments9 people in discussion

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. Per consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 07:56, 19 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Harry Allan (footballer, born unknown) → Harry Allan (footballer) – There aren't any other footballers called Harry Allan. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 07:41, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Support per nomination. Appears to be an uncontroversial technical request. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 09:56, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Oppose. Ambiguous with Harry Allan (rugby union). Why not use Harry Allan (Scottish footballer)? Jenks24 (talk) 11:11, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Rugby footballers and association footballers aren't ambiguous with each other. See WP:NCSP. 162 etc. (talk) 17:32, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Where does it say that? Rugby is a type of football. Jenks24 (talk) 11:32, 14 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
"If a sportsperson in any form of rugby football—rugby league, rugby union, or beach rugby—is not a primary topic of all people with a similar name, use (rugby), (rugby player), (rugby union), (rugby league), or (beach rugby)." Note that (footballer) is not used. 162 etc. (talk) 16:56, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Just because footballer is not the preferred dab for rugby players on Wikipedia does not mean that they are never known as footballers. Jenks24 (talk) 11:14, 16 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Support. "Born unknown" doesn't really help to identify him (aren't we all born unknown?). Just add a hatnote to Henry Allan (footballer) (nicknamed Harry, and also Scottish) and maybe Harry Allan (rugby union). These are all lightly viewed articles. Station1 (talk) 18:25, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Support per above, hatnotes can be used. Dank Jae 03:10, 13 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Support per WP:NCSP.--Ortizesp (talk) 04:07, 13 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Support per nom. Rugby players are not known as footballers, even though rugby is officially called rugby football. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:26, 14 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

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