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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Jane Ruth Angvik → Jane Angvik – It appears WiR has been given free reign on the encyclopedia without regard to what grasp they possess of common conventions pertaining to biographies. Tagging this biography on its talk page for WiR without tagging it as a BLP or even a biography at all is an obvious example. Another example that's not so obvious and which motivated this request: the peculiar naming conventions employed by the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame do not take precedence over WP:COMMONNAME, yet many WiR participants appear to believe otherwise.
NewsBank's current design of its sites makes it difficult to present URLs or statistics here. So you can navigate the process for yourself, I went to the NewsLibrary URL and clicked on Alaska when the map came up. Out of these holdings, it returned at least hundreds of hits for "Jane Angvik" and zero hits for "Jane Ruth Angvik". So where are the sources or statistics to support the existing title?
Please don't use this individual RM as an excuse to believe that this problem exists in a vacuum. The reason I said what I did about WiR is that there are other articles with the exact same problem. As this and this suggests a belief by WiR that every inductee to every state-level and even county-level women's hall of fame is inherently notable, this problem should not be construed as being exclusive to Alaska, either. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 06:10, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I added the Women in Red template yesterday after I worked on the article, and it was a post-editing oversight to not also tag it as a BLP. However, I think you are correct that this RM is not an appropriate forum to address a larger concern, but perhaps it could be directly addressed at the Women in Red Talk page, or directly with @Gobonobo: or @Megalibrarygirl: or with @Ys2001: and @Ian (Wiki Ed): who appear to have been more directly involved with the creation of this article. Thank you, Beccaynr (talk) 13:09, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
This requested move is unnecessary as it could have just been uncontroversially moved to Jane Angvik per COMMONNAME. The article was started by a new editor as part of an educational assignment, so they probably weren't even aware of our article naming conventions. gobonoboc21:29, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 January 2021 and 7 May 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Fb131.