Talk:Bob Beers (politician, born 1959)

message: Yes, I am the fellow whom this article is about. I welcome objective clean-up, but have lately been having to clean-up "adjustments" to the article by partisan operatives who are far too clever to be obvious about their conflicts. Let me be very obvious about mine. Life would be easier if I didn't have a Wikipedia article about me which my partisan opponents can freely manipulate, and I am attempting to petition the admins to protect the article to prevent this. In the meantime, it is not my style to disguise my identity, or hire others to do it under a cloak.Bob Beers 00:37, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major contributor with conflict warning confession 

message: I had moved this page to Robert T. Beers back in December to create a disambiguation page for Bob Beers. I was recently contacted by the subject of the article with a request to move it back to Bob Beers since he has never answered to the name Robert.. Since we need the DAB page, I can't move it to Bob Beers, and since there are two Bob Beers who are Nevada politicians, Bob Beers (politician) is out.. One suggestion was Bob Beers (CPA) since that was his career before politics and he is still a CPA in addition to being a politician. Others include Bob T. Beers, Bob Beers (Nevada Senator), although the latter could eventually require disambiguation.. are there any other suggestions/preferences? --Versageek 14:31, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page rename/move request 

message: Is this person really that notable to have an article?71.108.130.79 (talk) 09:00, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: I looked at Harry Reid's article. In that case, his article is titled "Harry Reid" and the disambiguation page is titled "Harry Reid (Disambiguation)".
:That's because he's by far the most well-known person called Harry Reid. Whether or not you are more well known than the other Bob Beers is open to debate. Tiller54 (talk) 16:09, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Where's that policy?Bob Beers 16:58, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Here. Tiller54 (talk) 17:10, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

text: No it shouldn't. As I posted above, per WP:Middle names where it says "use the most common format of a name used in reliable sources: if that is with a middle name or initials, make the Wikipedia article title conform to that format". As the most common format used is "Bob Beers", that's what this article will be called. Tiller54 (talk) 17:10, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: As for the rules regarding Harry Reid, it is clear that he is by far the best known person with that name. The relevant guideline is WP:PRIMARYTOPIC which says: "A topic is primary for a term, with respect to usage, if it is highly likely—much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term." We can use Google searches, searches of newspaper databases and even viewership of our various articles to gauge that in borderline cases, but it is indisputable in the case of "Harry Reid" that the Nevada senator is the primary topic. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 19:04, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instructional: Another disambiguation example 

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