Talk:Edison (disambiguation)

Requested move 23 October 2019

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It was proposed in this section that Edison be renamed and moved to Edison (disambiguation).

Moved per general agreement below. Kudos to editors for your input, and Happy Publishing! (nac by page mover) P. I. Ellsworth, ed. ^put'r there 12:16, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Edison → Edison (disambiguation) – Edison should be redirected to Thomas Edison as WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Sharper {talk} 00:09, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support per Einstein Red Slash 02:42, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Absolutely. Clear primary redirect. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:49, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. bd2412 T 16:07, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 09:45, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose readers looking for the inventor will overwhelmingly include "Thomas" in their search and while I haven't heard of anything other than Thomas for "Edison" it seems better to keep this is a DAB simlar to Columbus noting that the NJ city (which gets around 5%) has a population of around 100 thousand and while US cities are often referred to by including the the state, there still full matches for "Edison". Clearly Thomas is by far the most important and popular topic with this name but its clear you would include "Thomas" when searching of referring to him. I also agree with Paintspot by putting the name and Thomas on the 1st line. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:35, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- No, as with other well-known people, he is often referred to simply by his surname. Probably in normal speech far more than by his full name, in fact. We would commonly say "Edison invented that", for instance, not "Thomas Edison invented that". And everyone would know who we were talking about. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:14, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose this move 2601:541:4500:1760:1578:C924:F1F9:FA69 (talk) 21:23, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support, per nom. Walrasiad (talk) 04:37, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 10:43, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.