Talk:O'Dell

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Not moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:11, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

O'Dell → O'Dell (surname) — per MOS:DABSUR 92.3.160.84 (talk) 03:33, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. This is not necessary and MOS:DABSUR doesn't call for this. — AjaxSmack 04:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

MOS:DABSUR says, for lists of persons who have the disambiguated term as surname: For short lists of such persons, new sections of Persons with the surname Xxxx and/or Persons with the given name Xxxx can be added below the main disambiguation list. For longer lists, create an article called Xxxx (name), Xxxx (surname), Xxxx (given name), or List of people with surname Xxxx, and link to it from the disambiguation page. 92.3.160.84 (talk) 04:18, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It also says: "Pages only listing persons with a certain given name or surname (unless they are very frequently referred to by that name alone) are not disambiguation pages, and this Manual of Style does not apply to them." Ucucha 04:26, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's referring to all other sections. It obviously doesn't mean the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Given names or surnames section does not apply, as that section contains instructions for creating and naming and linking to pages with those exact criteria, as quoted above, and explains which tags to add and not to add to those pages. 92.3.160.84 (talk) 05:06, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, that section only applies to articles that list both people with a given surname and other meanings. Read it carefully. Therefore oppose. Ucucha 13:44, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. As it stands now, it is a list of surnames, and doesn't need a disambig template. When there are a lot of editors this close to the page, it becomes a case of not seeing the forest for the trees. The purpose of a dab page is to resolve conflicts where more than one article has a claim to the natural title. The natural title for "Scott O'Dell" is "Scott O'Dell", not "O'Dell", so there is no conflict with any others. If there is ever an article such as "O'Dell Shoe Polish Co.", there will still be no conflict, as that would also be the natural article title. These are not "different articles which could, in principle, have the same title", quoting from WP:DAB. For readers who are looking for a person named Jack or John or Johnny or Jacob O'Dell, the surname page can certainly be of use to them, and that's why I fought long and hard a few years ago to save the surname pages from wholesale deletion, when the compromise settled upon was to refrain from treating them as dab pages. Chris the speller (talk) 16:43, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the input. On the ...a certain given name or surname (unless they are very frequently referred to by that name alone) point, I thought this was to do with people best known simply by only their given name or surname, like for example Florence (disambiguation)#People - my bad. 92.3.160.84 (talk) 20:17, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Unnecessary. --O'Dea (talk) 09:39, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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