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The result of the move request was: not moved. There is a clear consensus that the engineer is not the primary topic. However, a clearer disambiguation may be need for this article, so feel free to open a new requested move about that if you wish, or move it yourself if uncontroversial (non-admin closure).
Jenks24 (
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09:50, 1 June 2011 (UTC)reply
I thought about that, and it's not a bad point but... most of his many mentions in the media refer to him simply as John McMullen (or Dr. McMullen). I don't dispute that he has a middle name and uses an initial, but it's rarely used. —
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Can you actually show that to be the case, or is this just... obstinacy? Are the page views meaningless, or the thousands of press clippings? I'm willing to be convinced, but this isn't very convincing. I wouldn't even call it an argument, without any evidence to back the position up. —
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Your page stats do the convincing for me. The ratio of his page views to all the other people (including the missing
John K. McMullen)) don't convince me that people are expecting to find this particular John McMullen.
Tassedethe (
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14:09, 23 May 2011 (UTC)reply
So, basically, it's my opinion against... well, three of ya. Great. OK, back to just worrying about content, then. I'll just have to come up with a better disambiguator, I guess (using "engineer" for Dr. McMullen here is terrible). *scratches head* Oh, and since you brought it up, I assume that you're going to take care of adding
John K. McMullen to the dab page? Happy editing. —
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Three knee-jerk "opposes" hardly shows "clear consensus", especially when the votes so obviously ignore the evidence presented, but whatever. —
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