Talk:William Bulkeley (diarist)
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Requested move 22 November 2020 edit
- 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: Non-contested move (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 19:56, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
William Bulkeley (sheriff) → William Bulkeley (diarist) – I created the page under this name - in my haphazard wanderings through local history his diary made him notable, which other sheriffs of Anglesey or elsewhere generally aren't. The office itself doesn't confer obvious notability. The ODNB (https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-62643) also describes him as "diarist", while noting his shrievalty. On Googling "William Bulkeley Brynddu diarist" I find nearly a thousand pages, most of which deal mainly with his diary; on googling "William Bulkeley Brynddu sheriff" I find what appears to be a subset of those pages, and again the main emphasis seems to be his diary not his office of sheriff. Civis Romanus (talk) 12:37, 22 November 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. SITH (talk) 17:00, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
- Why not just move it? In ictu oculi (talk) 14:33, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
- Because it was recently moved, to Sheriff, so there's at least one editor who felt that it should be Sheriff. I hope they'll change their mind. Civis Romanus (talk) 17:46, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
- No further comments in a fortnight. I propose to reverse the move in a couple of days. Civis Romanus (talk) 13:34, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
- Because it was recently moved, to Sheriff, so there's at least one editor who felt that it should be Sheriff. I hope they'll change their mind. Civis Romanus (talk) 17:46, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
- This article was originally at William Bulkeley, Brynddu, which seems like improper disambiguation and that's probably why another editor moved it here. That said, I do not oppose changing the title to "diarist". BegbertBiggs (talk) 17:53, 6 December 2020 (UTC)