Talk:Wade Wilson (football)

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The result was no move. Ace Class Shadow; My talk. 06:36, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Rationale for move:

1. "Wade Wilson" redirects to a fictional character. I don't think that fictional characters should take precedent over real people.
2. It is my understanding that parentheses are to be avoided as much as possible, to be only used when necessary. This looks like a unnecessary case of parentheses.
3. We could add a dablink of "This article is about the football player. For the Marvel comics character, see Deadpool"

If not, I'll submit a WP:RM request. Hbdragon88 23:05, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Wade Wilson (athlete) → Wade Wilson – There is absolutely no reason why a fictional character should take precedence over a real athelete. Appropriate dab notices were already put on both the Deadpool and the Wade Wilson page. The Google Test yields 1.3 million results for "wade wilson football" but only 15,000 for "wade wilson deadpool". Hbdragon88 18:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

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• Oppose. ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 04:40, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose. Seems like a fairly straightforward disambig at Wade Wilson. And while the comic alter-egos are fairly obscure, I don't think anyone is going to have trouble finding the athelete's article if that's what they're looking for. --Satori Son 00:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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Try actually clicking on "Wade Wilson" rather than flying off the handle, dude. Also, check out "T-Ray". Needless to say, it's not a redirect anymore, but a dab page. The name could refer to sever characters in comics and only one person outside of them. In fact, I think I left a character out. Excuse me. ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 04:40, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I know that there are three entries, but it still looks rather pointless. I'd rather have dab notices on both T-Ray and Deadpool saying "For the other person claimed to be Wade Wilson..." as both Deadpool and T-Ray are aliases, while there is a real Wade Wilson out there. Also, the "Slade Wilson" looks pretty weak and could easily be removed. Note that I chose to be more reasonable and file a WP:RM request rather tahn do a {{db-move}}. Hbdragon88 05:05, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't know that you could make a case for a straight up db, dude. Also, while you might have the POV that fictional characters come second, I'd like to point out that this is still three against one. Now, you might not want to count it as such, but, all three characters could arguably be "real Wade Wilsons". Heck, Deadpool, as I've learned, is already often assumed to be such. The only real other option that comes to mind is making a "Wade Wilson (comics)" page, but that probably wouldn't work. Besides, like you've come to believe, parenthesis should be used sparingly. Oh and BTW, "RM request" is redundant. Like, "ATM machine" or "PIN number". Work on phrasing that better. ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 17:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

It wouldn't have hurt to try, but I instead took this alternate route. I disagree with the "three against one" unless you can actually prove that Deathstroke has in fact been called "Wade Wilson" when the article itself doesn't even have that nickname, except a WP:NOR suggestion that Wade Wilson comes from a combination of Slade Wilson and Walt DeForge. Hbdragon88 05:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, this doesn't look like it's going to get anywhere - I support and you oppose. Should we enlist a WikiProject in here to weigh in? Hbdragon88 01:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

• Relisting for lack of consensus. --Dijxtra 11:57, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Note that that was only changed to a disambiguation after this move was requested.[1] Gene Nygaard 18:49, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't like the "Wade Wilson (athlete)" name, because as athlete says, "In British English this is often limited to athletics" linking the last word to athletics (track and field). Gene Nygaard 18:54, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Firstly, don't post comments at the survey without voting. Second, no, it wasn't. The Wade Wilson automatically became a redirect as a result of the move to "Wade Wilson (athlete)". Standard practice. I turned it into a disambiguation page immediately after. Third, your POV alone isn't a good enough reason to change the title again. Forth, I can barely made heads or tails of your other "reasons", but they don't seem enough to justify a title change, either. ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 01:27, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

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