Talk:John Galt (novelist)

message: NOW might be the right time to address the problem of there being two prominent John Galts, since I have just created a separate article on John Galt (Atlas Shrugged).  I feel that the idea of redirecting to either, in which I include keeping the current arrangement, is counter-productive and not in-keeping with policy (that is, Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Deciding to disambiguate).  Hence, disambiguation is the way forward.  I'll go ahead in seven days unless there are objections. Bastin 16:12, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Since there were no opponents to the move, it's now done. Bastin 17:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Agree. This is a classic case where a two-way disambiguation page is the way to go. Andrewa (talk) 15:33, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be an improvement on the present situation.  If there were a separate article on the character, I would agree; but it's a section redirect to List of characters in Atlas Shrugged#John Galt, which doesn't even link to this article. I support, therefore, the move request.  But we should certainly do one or the other; readers who look for the novelist are now dropped into a paragraph which doesn't mention this article or link to it. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:57, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There has been a separate article (with a hatnote to the novelist) at John Galt from last November until a few days ago, when it was redirected to List of characters in Atlas Shrugged#John Galt without any kind of merge or discussion on its talk page that I see. I've reverted the redirect. Station1 (talk) 04:17, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

text: I've now found this discussion among three editors. However, John Galt averaged tens of thousands of views per month. Station1 (talk) 04:55, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Time to disambiguate?

message: :Results 1 - 10 of about 138,000 for "john galt" "atlas shrugged".
:Results 1 - 10 of about 45,100 for "John Galt" "Annals of the Parish"
:Results 1 - 10 of about 3,020 for "John Galt" "The Chronicle of Dalmailing"
--Born2cycle (talk) 04:25, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Google test results

message: * Support - there was no clear concensus to make the original change. --Karbinski (talk) 19:21, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Since I'm not an admin, that was more difficult than it could have been, but at this point it should all be sorted. The character article is at John Galt and John Galt (Atlas Shrugged) redirects there. The disambiguation page is now at John Galt (disambiguation), but with only two articles there isn't really a need for a dab page, so it should probably be deleted. --RL0919 (talk) 15:53, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: To the question of MOVING [[John Galt (Atlas Shrugged)]] to [[John Galt]]

message: Hi there, I can see several editors have been around the block on this title -- in order to disambiguate it. I don't really want to create more churn but describing John Galt as a novelist is probably not giving him the credit due to him. Let me tell you how I came to this, and I will try not go on too long.
I was re-writting the Tiger Dunlop article; the two men are very connected to each other both in personal and business lives. I went looking for the John Galt article and honestly couldn't find it. I simply had no idea that he would be catalogued under (novelist). 
John Galt is a Canadian pre-Confederation historical character responsible for many good and interesting deeds, not the least of which is founding the city of Guelph, Ontario.
John Galt is also a prolific writer and novelist as shown in the article.
I would like to propose that I expand the current article as I am familiar with the subject area and that the title be renamed to something like "John Galt (1779-1839)" which would not detract from his novelist activities, but would allow those interested in Canadian history to find him.
Any comments? CJ_WeißSchäfer  23:49, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello again CJ_WeißSchäfer, I hadn't actually thought about it, but I believe your observation has some merit. Give me an opportunity to consider this and perhaps we'll get some other opinions as well on this topic. In the mean time; if you haven't looked at it already, perhaps having a close read of WP:TITLE will give you some ideas. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 01:38, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

text: WP:QUALIFIER suggests dates are usually the least useful qualifier because they are more likely to be something a reader is researching than a search criterion. If both novelist and colonizer are likely search criteria, you can simply redirect John Galt (colonizer) to this article, or move this article to that title, leaving John Galt (novelist) to redirect back. Other useful redirects such as John Galt (Guelph) or John Galt (1779-1839) can also be created. Station1 (talk) 20:27, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
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