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I motion that this Earl Thomas should be the primary topic
Hi fellow Wikipedians,
I motion to make this Earl Thomas the primary topic for the name “Earl Thomas”. There are three other “Earl Thomases” but they are very insignificant compared to the current NFL defensive back. I looked at article traffic statistics from all four of the “Earl Thomases” and the results are astounding (to be fair, when I entered the dates for the comparison, I excluded the last few days to show more typical averages, because the recent signing news with the Ravens has caused a huge spike in viewership since the news was reported). This Earl Thomas averages 1,194 page views per day, the other three Earl Thomas articles average 8, 6, and 1 page view per day. Please submit your opinions and thoughts. Should concensus be reached, I will make the page change in about one week’s time, as that is generally the minimum amount of time that Wikipedia establishes as a guideline for talk discussions before making drastic changes. Thanks Mrbeastmodeallday (talk) 02:05, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Requested move 22 March 2019
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 section.
The result of the move request was: Moved — Amakuru (talk) 17:38, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I do not have any opinion on whether the page must be move or not, but if the decision is to move it please use the move tab and not cut and paste the material. Cut-and-paste moves do not preserve the editing history and therefore technically are copyright violations.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:51, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per In ictu oculi. A common name with four subjects who have Wikipedia articles and two additional men who have very closely related names. A disambiguation page at base name serves users best. —Roman Spinner(talk • contribs) 16:29, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. The existence of other Earl Thomases with articles doesn't stop this from being the primary topic. The page views could not be any clearer [1].
Relisting comment - I have restyled this as a multipage move, as the disambiguation page has to be involved too. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 21:42, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Clear as day primary topic. Nohomersryan (talk) 22:21, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I often argue against declaring a common-looking name a
WP:PTOPIC because of the risk of accumulating bad links and thus degrading the encyclopaedia; but when one person on the DAB page has got 98.7% of the page views over the last year and none of the others has had more views on any day, there's no question about it. I also support Amakuru's proposal that the DAB page is needed, because a hatnote to three other people with the same name and to two others with closely similar names would be hopelessly unwieldy. Narky Blert (talk) 04:05, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply
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Support Clear winner in terms of views over time. This looks to be about all discussed out. Safrolic (talk) 03:43, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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How about a key for the statistics tables? What, for example, is "comb"? Clarityfiend (talk) 06:16, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Clarityfiend: There is a tooltip for those expanding on its definitions, but I don't know how accessible that is. Eagles24/7(C) 12:38, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
