Talk:Samuel Atkinson (MP)

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Requested move 25 February 2024 edit

Latest comment: 2 months ago7 comments5 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 to Samuel Atkinson (MP). The base name will become a disambiguation page for now, absent any other discussion on the matter. — Amakuru (talk) 19:03, 17 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Samuel Atkinson → ? – Having just promoted long-serving Georgia Supreme Court justice Samuel C. Atkinson to mainspace (and taking into account the existence of Sam Atkinson), I doubt the 17th century short-serving member of parliament remains the primary topic of this title. BD2412 T 02:06, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Support Samuel Atkinson → Samuel Atkinson (MP). Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) confirms that a number of them are disambiguated via the parenthetical qualifier "(MP)". The two-sentence stub delineating the MP, who died more than 300 years ago, validates that he is definitely not primary. Best to create a Samuel Atkinson disambiguation page that would list Samuel Atkinson (MP), Samuel C. Atkinson as well as Sam Atkinson. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 06:22, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Support Samuel Atkinson (Harwich MP). The constituency is less ambiguous than just "MP". -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:26, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Support Samuel Atkinson (MP) over Samuel Atkinson (Harwich MP). "MP" is not ambiguous (though I'm not thrilled about using an initialism in the title). Graham (talk) 00:51, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
It's not ambiguous to British people. It might be ambiguous to others. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:08, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
More so than "Harwich MP", if there is only one MP with the name? (I should note that I have never lived in the UK.) Graham (talk) 17:05, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

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