Talk:Thomas Mair (minister)

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The request to rename this article to Thomas Mair (minister) has been carried out. If the page title has consensus, be sure to close this discussion using {{subst:RM top|'''page moved'''.}} and {{subst:RM bottom}} and remove the {{Requested move/dated|…}} tag, or replace it with the {{subst:Requested move/end|…}} tag.

• Thomas Mair → Thomas Mair (minister)
• Thomas Mair (disambiguation) → Thomas Mair

– Now that we have Thomas Mair (murderer), there is no longer a primary topic for "Thomas Mair", so the DAB page should reside at Thomas Mair and the article for the 18th Century minister should be at Thomas Mair (minister). (PS The murderer is obviously heavily featured in the news at the moment but I cannot believe that he will have such long term notability to justify being treated as the primary topic.) MrStoofer (talk) 15:33, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Support In ictu oculi (talk) 09:33, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose - why not? That's what we did with Oliver Burke. Unreal7 (talk) 11:03, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think you are actually against the proposal. I think you are in favour of the first part but also in favour of a move for Thomas Mair (murderer), which is a separate issue.--MrStoofer (talk) 11:44, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose Just because we have another article, doesn't mean minister is no longer WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. What evidence is there that they are of roughly equal notability? The murderer is WP:RECENT, but the minister is being written about three centuries later. Boleyn (talk) 12:10, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. The minister does not appear to be a major figure and would likely be obscure to most readers, while the more well-known murderer would meet the page views criteria of the primary topic guidelines but not the significance one. Seems like a good case for disambiguation. Taylor Trescott - ^{my talk} + _{my edits} 16:33, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]