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Hmm, should this be a disambiguation page? pointing to either George HW Bush or George W Bush
- sv
The other one is not always called George W. Bush - I've heard him called George Bush often enough. See, for example, Environmentalism and George Bush, which refers to Bush fils, not Bush père. - Montréalais
Making this a disambiguation page would be a great mistake. W is known as George W. Bush and his father is known as George Bush. The same is true for John Adams and John Quincy Adams - if anybody makes a link to John Adams intending to link to his son, then they have made a mistake. Same for the George's. This is natural disambiguation at its best. It is enough to simply mention in the first paragraph the Sr is the father of W. If you really want to get fancy then make a disambiguation block at the top of this article. Oh wait - that has already been done. So why is there a need for full disambiguation then? -- mav
I agree with Jiang, and as time goes by his argument will gain potency. If the 21st century's first U.S. president continues to make a name for himself, at some point the unmarked term George Bush will start to refer to the son, while the father will start to be better known as George H. W. Bush or "Bush Senior" or the like. I'm not sure we've reached that point yet, but I'm pretty sure we will reach it sooner or later. Uncle Ed 15:45 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Case in point: [ [1]]
JohnOwens wrote (I'm not sure it counts as "skydiving" if you're doing it to save your butt.)
I changed the referrence to the bar scanner story to "apocryphal" - according to a number of otherwise reliable sources (see http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.htm ), it was concocted from a visit to a technology conference, where Bush was politely interested in how these worked. It was then picked up and used by many writers. (incidentally - I made this error myself, see http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_andersen_6.html )
I think we should move this page to "George H. W. Bush" because it has been common usage to also refer to his son as "George Bush." This would clear any confusion as to which George Bush we would be referring to. It would also be more consistent to recognize the middle names of both. Yes, his son is also George Bush (even though he has a "W" in between). This George Bush has an "H. W."--same thing! Jiang
Hmm, it's the other way around, George H. W. Bush is a redirect to George Bush... it probably would be better to have the article on G.B. senior at George H. W. Bush, wouldn't it? Evercat 01:15 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Cool, the last one's been taken care of. Unless there are any last-minute objections, and since we seem to have won the vote, I'll move the page to George H. W. Bush, create the disambiguation page and fix the redirects. Evercat 19:47 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Yay! The Anome 19:47 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Im a little confused why George Bush was redirected to George H. W. Bush. If anything, it should point to the current President. Pizza Puzzle
Why the reversion of the 'As of' link?! Troll Silent, Troll Deep 19:18, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
When I searched for George bush I got this page asking which one I was refering to. When I clicked on George W. Bush it routed me to "Retarded."
I tried to fix it but I couldn't figure out how. Just thought you guys should know. -anon
I think this page should be protected from editing. It keeps getting vandalized and it is unlikely that many more George Bush's (Bushes?) will show up anytime soon. --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rob van Stee ( talk • contribs) 11:58, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Well? 92.0.238.159 ( talk) 21:42, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
{{ edit protected}}
The names should be expanded in the description after the page link.
76.66.195.159 ( talk) 07:53, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
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edit-semiprotected}}
As there is little need to edit page - it's a well-written dab and unlikely there are many future additions - could it get a higher level of protection? It's been awful lately - I hoped it would stop when he left office. Boleyn ( talk) 09:54, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hmm, should this be a disambiguation page? pointing to either George HW Bush or George W Bush
- sv
The other one is not always called George W. Bush - I've heard him called George Bush often enough. See, for example, Environmentalism and George Bush, which refers to Bush fils, not Bush père. - Montréalais
Making this a disambiguation page would be a great mistake. W is known as George W. Bush and his father is known as George Bush. The same is true for John Adams and John Quincy Adams - if anybody makes a link to John Adams intending to link to his son, then they have made a mistake. Same for the George's. This is natural disambiguation at its best. It is enough to simply mention in the first paragraph the Sr is the father of W. If you really want to get fancy then make a disambiguation block at the top of this article. Oh wait - that has already been done. So why is there a need for full disambiguation then? -- mav
I agree with Jiang, and as time goes by his argument will gain potency. If the 21st century's first U.S. president continues to make a name for himself, at some point the unmarked term George Bush will start to refer to the son, while the father will start to be better known as George H. W. Bush or "Bush Senior" or the like. I'm not sure we've reached that point yet, but I'm pretty sure we will reach it sooner or later. Uncle Ed 15:45 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Case in point: [ [1]]
JohnOwens wrote (I'm not sure it counts as "skydiving" if you're doing it to save your butt.)
I changed the referrence to the bar scanner story to "apocryphal" - according to a number of otherwise reliable sources (see http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.htm ), it was concocted from a visit to a technology conference, where Bush was politely interested in how these worked. It was then picked up and used by many writers. (incidentally - I made this error myself, see http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_andersen_6.html )
I think we should move this page to "George H. W. Bush" because it has been common usage to also refer to his son as "George Bush." This would clear any confusion as to which George Bush we would be referring to. It would also be more consistent to recognize the middle names of both. Yes, his son is also George Bush (even though he has a "W" in between). This George Bush has an "H. W."--same thing! Jiang
Hmm, it's the other way around, George H. W. Bush is a redirect to George Bush... it probably would be better to have the article on G.B. senior at George H. W. Bush, wouldn't it? Evercat 01:15 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Cool, the last one's been taken care of. Unless there are any last-minute objections, and since we seem to have won the vote, I'll move the page to George H. W. Bush, create the disambiguation page and fix the redirects. Evercat 19:47 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Yay! The Anome 19:47 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Im a little confused why George Bush was redirected to George H. W. Bush. If anything, it should point to the current President. Pizza Puzzle
Why the reversion of the 'As of' link?! Troll Silent, Troll Deep 19:18, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
When I searched for George bush I got this page asking which one I was refering to. When I clicked on George W. Bush it routed me to "Retarded."
I tried to fix it but I couldn't figure out how. Just thought you guys should know. -anon
I think this page should be protected from editing. It keeps getting vandalized and it is unlikely that many more George Bush's (Bushes?) will show up anytime soon. --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rob van Stee ( talk • contribs) 11:58, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Well? 92.0.238.159 ( talk) 21:42, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
{{ edit protected}}
The names should be expanded in the description after the page link.
76.66.195.159 ( talk) 07:53, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
{{
edit-semiprotected}}
As there is little need to edit page - it's a well-written dab and unlikely there are many future additions - could it get a higher level of protection? It's been awful lately - I hoped it would stop when he left office. Boleyn ( talk) 09:54, 2 September 2009 (UTC)