Talk:Tom Murphy (footballer, born 1986)

Requested move 2 July 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved. The Duke of Nonsense^{What is necessary for thee?}. 12:26, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Thomas Murphy (footballer) → Tom Murphy (Australian footballer, born 1986) – All sources call him Tom, not Thomas (WP:COMMONNAME). (There is another Australian footballer with the same name born in 1998, so both titles would need to be clarified accordingly if the move is made) TeraTIX 07:41, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

• Support In ictu oculi (talk)
• Support both moves per nom. Sources call him Tom. ONR (talk) 22:28, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Flickerd (talk) 04:12, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
• Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:24, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
• Semi-Support but move to Tom Murphy (footballer, born 1986). Putting Australian in the title doesn't aid in the main disambiguation and just makes it longer. I propose the following footballers from Thomas Murphy#Sports:
  • Tom Murphy (American football) (1901–1994), player in the National Football League
  • Tommy Murphy (Australian footballer) (1903–1958), Australian rules footballer for South Melbourne
  • Tom Murphy (footballer, born 1986) (born 1986), Australian rules footballer for Hawthorn and the Gold Coast (was Thomas Murphy (footballer))
  • Tom Murphy (footballer, born 1998) (born 1998), Australian rules footballer for North Melbourne (was Tom Murphy (Australian footballer))
  • Tom Murphy (English footballer) (born 1991), English footballer for Farnborough (was Tom Murphy (footballer))
  • Tommy Murphy (Gaelic footballer) (1921–1985), Gaelic footballer for County Laois, Ireland

I've made the English footballer change already, as it was clearly ambiguous as it was.The-Pope (talk) 15:14, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

I prefer this move. (Related: I have moved Tom Murphy (American football) to Tom Murphy (American footballer) for consistency with the other articles). TeraTIX 12:45, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

American football, and some other sports, like ice hockey, prefer to use the sport's name as the qualifier, not the name of the competitor in the sport. Consistency within a sport is followed more than consistency across the whole encyclopedia. Expect it to be reverted. The-Pope (talk) 15:05, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Wow, okay. I've moved it back. Someone should probably sort this out someday, but I have a strange feeling that a discussion will be more trouble than it's worth. TeraTIX 01:50, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

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