Talk:Ray Stevens

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[edit] Born in Albany or Clarkdale?

The page Albany, Georgia says Ray Stevens was born there. This page says he was born in Clarkdale. Which is right? Badbilltucker 18:31, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was no consensus for moving. --Dijxtra 08:26, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

-- Better question: Why didn't anyone make mention of Ray Stevens' daughter, Suzi Ragsdale?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jragsdale1 (talk • contribs) 02:07, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

Ray Stevens → Ray Stevens (musician) – Ray Stevens should be a disambiguation page since there is was a wrestler(he died 10 years ago) who was just as famous(if not more) than the musician. The wrestler also has more of a claim to the name because his full name is Carl Raymond Stevens. TJ Spyke 04:13, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

Add "* Support" or "* Oppose" followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~

  • Oppose. See comment below. --SigPig 04:28, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose, for now at least. Principle of least surprise -- look at the hundreds of links to the page in what links here. How many are for the musician and how many for the wrestler? The status quo with a note at the top of this article linking to the wrestler is just fine. older ≠ wiser 14:45, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
    Comment, Just to nit pick, the musician has over a hundred links, but not "hundreds", while the wrestler has a non-trivial number of links also. And if you really wanted least surprise, a disambiguation page would best serve people looking for either. —Pengo talk · contribs 23:31, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

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  • I think you need to prove that the wrestler is more famous -- I'm assuming that this move request is so that said wrestler can get the unparenthetical article. Although Google is by no means the final arbiter of notability, I think it salient that when Googling "Ray Stevens", I did not find any reference to the wrestler in the first ten pages with the exception of the Wikipedia article. Given the high prevalence of sites referring to the singer, one can safely assume (in my opinion) that the vast majority of people coming to WP looking for Ray Stevens are looking for the singer, not the wrestler. --SigPig 04:28, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
If you read my move request, you would see that I think "Ray Stevens" should be a disambiguation page, meaning it would have links to both this Stevens and the wrestler(just like others articles where several people have the same name). Stevens wrestled most of his career in the '50s and '60s and died about 10 years ago, so that may be affecting how many Google hits he gets. TJ Spyke 05:15, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] RAY STEVENS Interview Spotlight

An excellent recent INTERVIEW SPOTLIGHT on Ray Stevens can be found at MyBestYears.com [1]