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The entry should be renamed Michael B. Green, to differentiate him from <b>Michael J. Green</b> of CFR,Aspen Institute etc. - and plain Michael Green should be redirected to Michael J. Green, as he is far more likely to show up in lists. | The entry should be renamed Michael B. Green, to differentiate him from <b>Michael J. Green</b> of CFR,Aspen Institute etc. - and plain Michael Green should be redirected to Michael J. Green, as he is far more likely to show up in lists. | ||
[[User:Terje|Terje]] ([[User talk:Terje|talk]]) | [[User:Terje|Terje]] ([[User talk:Terje|talk]]) | ||
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| + | :One of the previous standards in such cases was to make a disambiguation page to alert people to the name overlap, but as long as there are not more that two people, this is probably not needed; I've just added disambiguation sentences at the top of each article, and that should be good enough. I take your point about lists, so with [[Michael J. Green]]'s documents properly attributed, a redirect should be OK. -- [[User:Robin|Robin]] ([[User talk:Robin|talk]]) 17:01, 14 June 2020 (UTC) | ||
Latest revision as of 17:01, 14 June 2020
The entry should be renamed Michael B. Green, to differentiate him from Michael J. Green of CFR,Aspen Institute etc. - and plain Michael Green should be redirected to Michael J. Green, as he is far more likely to show up in lists. Terje (talk)
- One of the previous standards in such cases was to make a disambiguation page to alert people to the name overlap, but as long as there are not more that two people, this is probably not needed; I've just added disambiguation sentences at the top of each article, and that should be good enough. I take your point about lists, so with Michael J. Green's documents properly attributed, a redirect should be OK. -- Robin (talk) 17:01, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
