Talk:Lewis Hine

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User:Hottentot tried to move this page to Lewis Hine by doing a delete - copy text move, rather than a proper move. I've reverted. If it needs to be moved, please use the move function. kmccoy (talk) 20:27, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please don't copy/paste move this page. If you feel it needs to be moved, please go to Wikipedia:Requested moves and do it there. Copy/paste moving destroys the edit history and is strongly discourage. This note is also being left on User:Hottentot. kmccoy (talk) 21:19, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Because the page at Lewis Hine has a prior history, it is presumably not possible to use the simple page move tab. As kmccoy say, the only alternative is to get the assistance of an admin via Wikipedia:Requested moves. However I've spent some time sourcing images on this page and if I recall 'Lewis Wickes Hine' is the more commonly used name (for example at the Library of Congress). There may still be some other reason to move though. -- Solipsist 22:48, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Number of Google hits for Lewis Hine: 185,000. Number of hits for Lewis Wickes Hine: 15,600. ---User:Hottentot

Well I don't get the same results from Google, but I'm probably doing more restrictive searches. However, they do still suggest a strong preference for 'Lewis Hine' (34000 : 93) there are also a small number of references to 'Lewis W. Hine'. I noticed a trend that the higher quality web sites introduce him formally as 'Lewis Wicks Hine' then continue to use 'Lewis Hine' elsewhere. So for example, the Getty Museum's bio [1] has the title Lewis Wikes Hine but uses just Lewis Hine in the body of the article. The US National Archives is similar [2].

I can't find any other Lewis Hine he might be confused with - his father appears to have been Douglas Hine [3]. Perhaps his signed himself 'Lewis Wickes Hine'.

In any case, he does seem to be more commonly known today as 'Lewis Hine', so that would support the move. -- Solipsist 07:49, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Just to be clear, I don't have an interest in it either way. I just wanted to be sure that the move wasn't done in a way that destroyed the edit history. I'm not an admin, so I can't help with the move. kmccoy (talk) 16:33, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• I reverted several edits -- apparently someone reverted the wrong version or something on December 9th. There were no other substantial changes, except for someone changing the date of birth by 10 days. I don't know which is the correct date of birth. The intent of my change was to restore several sentences and a picture which were removed last month apparently accidently by someone try ing to revert some other change. Morris 00:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC)