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The result of the move request was: move the page to Douglas Ford (British Army officer) at this time, per the discussion below. Please initiate a new move request at any time if you would like to propose a different title for the article. Dekimasu よ! 20:56, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
Douglas Ford (GC) → Douglas Ford (British army officer) – User:Necrothesp reverted my move of this page to Douglas Ford (British army officer) on the basis "GC and VC are normal dabs" so I would like to open it to discussion. I don't see how "GC" is more WP:Precise than "army officer". The George Cross (GC) is also an award, not a position, so it is not correct to say he "is a GC", which is what putting the term in brackets does. If we are to stick with including "GC", I would propose moving to Douglas Ford (GC recipient) or similar instead. jamacfarlane ( talk) 23:12, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
disambiguator is usually a noun indicating what the person is noted for being in his or her own right. In most cases these nouns are standard, commonly used tags such as "(musician)" and "(politician)". Try to avoid using abbreviations or anything capitalized or containing hyphens, dashes or numbers (apart from instances where more specific guidelines specify particular exceptions).(my emphasis). Disambiguations should never refer to accomplishments. This should be resubmitted as a batch RM to handle all the offenders at once. -- Netoholic @ 09:54, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
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Cheers.— cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 17:19, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: move the page to Douglas Ford (British Army officer) at this time, per the discussion below. Please initiate a new move request at any time if you would like to propose a different title for the article. Dekimasu よ! 20:56, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
Douglas Ford (GC) → Douglas Ford (British army officer) – User:Necrothesp reverted my move of this page to Douglas Ford (British army officer) on the basis "GC and VC are normal dabs" so I would like to open it to discussion. I don't see how "GC" is more WP:Precise than "army officer". The George Cross (GC) is also an award, not a position, so it is not correct to say he "is a GC", which is what putting the term in brackets does. If we are to stick with including "GC", I would propose moving to Douglas Ford (GC recipient) or similar instead. jamacfarlane ( talk) 23:12, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
disambiguator is usually a noun indicating what the person is noted for being in his or her own right. In most cases these nouns are standard, commonly used tags such as "(musician)" and "(politician)". Try to avoid using abbreviations or anything capitalized or containing hyphens, dashes or numbers (apart from instances where more specific guidelines specify particular exceptions).(my emphasis). Disambiguations should never refer to accomplishments. This should be resubmitted as a batch RM to handle all the offenders at once. -- Netoholic @ 09:54, 6 July 2018 (UTC)