TALK:DAVID LONG JR. (LINEBACKER)

A fact from David Long Jr. appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 January 2019 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that David Long Jr. set the West Virginia Mountaineers football record for single-game tackles for a loss?

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Requested move 2 December 2018

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Calidum 11:02, 9 December 2018 (UTC) reply

– Both football players go by David Long Jr., both were born in the same year...think this proposal is the best option. APM ( talk) 10:09, 2 December 2018 (UTC) reply

Oppose. It's not true that both players are referred to as David Long Jr. David Long Jr. is referred to that way in 6 of the 7 ref and external links in his article, while David Long (American football) is referred to as David Long in 8 of the 9 ref and external links in his article. Readers are more likely to know them by those names than by the month they were born. The hatnotes are sufficient to take care of any confusion. Station1 ( talk) 03:32, 4 December 2018 (UTC) reply
Oppose per Station.- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:17, 5 December 2018 (UTC) reply
Oppose per Station. Jweiss11 ( talk) 01:51, 9 December 2018 (UTC) reply

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Requested move 1 August 2024

It has been proposed in this section that David Long Jr. be renamed and moved to David Long Jr. (linebacker).

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David Long Jr. → David Long Jr. (linebacker) – To distinguish him from David Long Jr. (defensive back). ~WikiOriginal-9~ ( talk) 17:20, 1 August 2024 (UTC) reply

Weak support on most days they get similar views[ [1]]. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 18:17, 1 August 2024 (UTC) reply

David Long Jr. (defensive back) was moved back to David Long (defensive back) so I would like to withdraw this. Don't feel like dealing with the bureaucracy. ~WikiOriginal-9~ ( talk) 18:46, 1 August 2024 (UTC) reply

Comment. These two players are easily confused, as can be seen on a page view graph (hence the similar numbers). It is true that David Long (defensive back) seems to be referred to as David Long Jr more frequently in recent refs than he was at the time of the previous RM, but older refs still refer to the defensive back as simply David Long. Hatnotes are definitely necessary no matter what we title these articles. Station1 ( talk) 18:54, 1 August 2024 (UTC) reply

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