Talk:Frank Moore (performance artist)

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Frank Moore (artist) → Frank James Moore (artist) — There are many Frank Moores. We have both Frank Moore (artist) and Frank Moore (candidate), who are the same man, and several others. We should make him easier for our readers to identify. The candidate redirect should become Frank James Moore (candidate). To convince yourself there is a problem, go look at Frank Moore (disambiguation). —EdJohnston 02:41, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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• Rename to Frank james Moore which is sufficient by itself. Redirects from Frank Moore (artist) and Frank Moore (candidate) Alternatively,Frank Moore (artist) with redirects from the other two, but the point of the afd was that the main article should not be Frank Moore (candidate), at which he is presently much less notable. If be does become president, we can change this. DGG (talk) 04:36, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
• Rename to Frank James Moore, per DGG. I agree that we should redirect Frank Moore (artist) and Frank Moore (candidate) to the new article. EdJohnston 21:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Per Eroplay's comment below, I suggest adding a redirect Frank Moore (performance artist) -> Frank James Moore. Otherwise it will look a bit unusual to have an article discussing presidential candidates referring to him as Frank Moore (performance artist). I suppose we could always pipe the link in a case like that, as in Frank Moore. EdJohnston 03:32, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

• Rename to Frank Moore (performance artist) with redirects to it from Frank James Moore and Frank Moore (candidate). Rename Frank Moore (disambiguation) as Frank Moore. Redirect Frank Moore (artist) to Frank Moore. Rationale, 1) the performance artist/candidate is not commonly known by his middle name; 2) there is no primary topic, so the disambiguation page should be at the simple title; 3) there are two Frank Moore's who were artists. older ≠ wiser 13:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
• Support rename to Frank Moore (performance artist) per Bkonrad (older ≠ wiser), not finding any references on the web that call this man Frank James Moore. Someone has already changed Frank Moore to be a disambiguation page so that part of the plan is already addressed. EdJohnston 20:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

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We don't seem to have any articles that would go into the disambiguation page but this one. Could you point to them? Corvus cornix 03:43, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

If you look at Frank Moore (disambiguation) there are five men there, and that's without including either Frank Moore (artist) or Frank Moore (candidate). Plus there is a now-deceased painter named Frank Moore, who was also an artist. (He is *the* Frank Moore currently). So something needs to be tidied up. One way is to start using middle names. EdJohnston 03:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

How about moving this to Frank Moore (performance artist). Corvus cornix 04:00, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Corvus cornix's idea sounds great! Frank Moore is not really known by his middle name, but is well known as a performance artist. It sounds great to move the article to Frank Moore (performance artist) Eroplay --71.141.234.169 03:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

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