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Where are we getting "Thomas" from? The Congressional Biographical Directory and American National Biography just call him "Stanley Matthews". john k ( talk) 03:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
The suggestion at the bottom of the last thread (seven years ago!) is well-taken. Any objection to my moving this to Stanley Matthews (Justice)? Newyorkbrad ( talk) 01:15, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Moved as proposed. Consensus is clear (though I would have gone with just "judge"). bd2412 T 18:49, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Stanley Matthews (lawyer) → Stanley Matthews (Supreme Court justice) – Subject's key points of notability are not focused upon his private legal practice, but upon his service as a U.S. senator and a Supreme Court justice. At Category:Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, there are examples such as David Davis (Supreme Court justice) (who also served as a U.S. senator), Henry Baldwin (judge), Thomas Johnson (jurist), Pierce Butler (justice) and William Strong (Pennsylvania judge). If consensus indicates preference for a one-word qualifier, the choice would most likely be among "(judge)", "(jurist)" or "(justice)". Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 06:15, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
"Stanley Matthews (Supreme Court justice)". But I do feel your response was reflexive and under-supported by any rationale that actually engaged with the argument you were dismissing. A drive-by "naaaaaaah" if you will, which is not super useful to discussion. Snow let's rap 23:42, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
The article says he was confirmed 24 to 23 but says nothing about the total number of senators in 1881 and why the total was an odd number. Even more surprising is that even the article US Senate has no info on this topic. I had to search for quite a while to find in List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union that there were 38 states in 1881. So there were 76 senators, but only 47 voted. It's a sign of a possibly very badly written article that it says nothing about this, especially since the exceptionally low confirmation vote is the only reason almost all people look at this article. -- Espoo ( talk) 19:08, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved ( non-admin closure) BegbertBiggs ( talk) 18:10, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Stanley Matthews (Supreme Court justice) → Stanley Matthews (judge) – On closer investigation, the only reason we have any other article with "Supreme Court justice" as a disambiguator (that being David Davis (Supreme Court justice)) is that there are other judges named "David Davis". Here there is no other judge named "Stanley Matthews", so the more concise convention used in William Paterson (judge), William Johnson (judge), and Henry Baldwin (judge) should be used. BD2412 T 17:28, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
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Where are we getting "Thomas" from? The Congressional Biographical Directory and American National Biography just call him "Stanley Matthews". john k ( talk) 03:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
The suggestion at the bottom of the last thread (seven years ago!) is well-taken. Any objection to my moving this to Stanley Matthews (Justice)? Newyorkbrad ( talk) 01:15, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Moved as proposed. Consensus is clear (though I would have gone with just "judge"). bd2412 T 18:49, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Stanley Matthews (lawyer) → Stanley Matthews (Supreme Court justice) – Subject's key points of notability are not focused upon his private legal practice, but upon his service as a U.S. senator and a Supreme Court justice. At Category:Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, there are examples such as David Davis (Supreme Court justice) (who also served as a U.S. senator), Henry Baldwin (judge), Thomas Johnson (jurist), Pierce Butler (justice) and William Strong (Pennsylvania judge). If consensus indicates preference for a one-word qualifier, the choice would most likely be among "(judge)", "(jurist)" or "(justice)". Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 06:15, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
"Stanley Matthews (Supreme Court justice)". But I do feel your response was reflexive and under-supported by any rationale that actually engaged with the argument you were dismissing. A drive-by "naaaaaaah" if you will, which is not super useful to discussion. Snow let's rap 23:42, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
The article says he was confirmed 24 to 23 but says nothing about the total number of senators in 1881 and why the total was an odd number. Even more surprising is that even the article US Senate has no info on this topic. I had to search for quite a while to find in List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union that there were 38 states in 1881. So there were 76 senators, but only 47 voted. It's a sign of a possibly very badly written article that it says nothing about this, especially since the exceptionally low confirmation vote is the only reason almost all people look at this article. -- Espoo ( talk) 19:08, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved ( non-admin closure) BegbertBiggs ( talk) 18:10, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Stanley Matthews (Supreme Court justice) → Stanley Matthews (judge) – On closer investigation, the only reason we have any other article with "Supreme Court justice" as a disambiguator (that being David Davis (Supreme Court justice)) is that there are other judges named "David Davis". Here there is no other judge named "Stanley Matthews", so the more concise convention used in William Paterson (judge), William Johnson (judge), and Henry Baldwin (judge) should be used. BD2412 T 17:28, 29 November 2020 (UTC)