Talk:Jonathan Rowe (footballer)

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• Jonathan Rowe (footballer) → Jonathan Rowe
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– Per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. There is no other notable person with the WP:COMMONNAME of "Jonathan Rowe" on the English Wikipedia. On the Jonathan Rowe disambiguation page, there is another Jonathan Rowe who is a deceased journalist who wrote in the Point Reyes Light (newspaper), but who does not have an article of his own. There are also two Johnny Rowes, one of which is Johnny Rowe (footballer), an English footballer of the 1930s. Since there is no other article with a person that goes by "Jonathan Rowe", this page's title can be changed to that. I would also suggest moving Johnny Rowe (footballer) to Johnny Rowe and deleting the dab page altogether, at it serves little purpose, as there are only non-notable individuals on it apart from Jonathan and Johnny Rowe the footballers. A simple hatnote can be left for people not to mix up "Jonathan Rowe" and "Johnny Rowe". They go by different first names and were born a century apart so mix-ups shouldn't happen. Paul Vaurie (talk) 13:26, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. Paul Vaurie (talk) 20:06, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Per the reasons as argued by Paul Vaurie. IJA (talk) 09:01, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose as suggested - we have two footballers both called Jonathan Rowe, so we should disambiguate by year of birth - Jonathan Rowe (footballer, born 2003) and Johnny Rowe (footballer, born 1907). GiantSnowman 19:53, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@GiantSnowman: I would agree if they had the same WP:COMMONNAME, but they don't. A simple hatnote is fine here. Paul Vaurie (talk) 11:58, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I'm going to change my opinion to support GiantSnowman's proposal - there could be mixups. Paul Vaurie (talk) 12:04, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly - it's like having footballers called 'Matt', 'Matty' and 'Matthew' - they might have a commonname variant, but that is unlikely to be the only variant used by sources. GiantSnowman 17:56, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Giant Snowman's proposal On reflection, this a better way to disambiguate the articles. IJA (talk) 16:20, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]