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375: 581: 365: 554: 344: 209: 90: 684: 766: 591: 696: 470: 449: 64: 262: 1081:: No, I am not joking and I am a bit offended that you seem to not be taking the proposal seriously. I don't see how in any way the architect is more likely to be a PTOPIC as we have Clickstream data that shows ~20x more people are going to the mathematician's page than the architect from the disambiguation page, besides the "what comes to your mind"-esque argument of being important to British history. 241: 147: 123: 32: 480: 736: 81: 1211: 157: 1160:
but not strongly. It seems clear enough that most people are looking for Nash the mathematician, but it seems the architect has just as much claim for significance. I'm kind of skeptical that Nash's (purported) work in economics will have as much longevity as the architect, although his mathematical
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I will be receiving J.F. Nash's biography, "A beautiful mind," in the mail in a few days. I will go through it and see if I can find additional insight to improve this article. It may take some time however, I have professional responsibilities as well.
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has about a tenth the pageviews of this page, more than the architect, though he wouldn't be commonly referred to as "John Nash". A Google Books search shows 8 books about the mathematician and 2 about
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IP editor, please do not add and re-insert verbiage about acting awards that Russell Crowe was nominated for but did not win in the Legacy section. You have been reverted several times for this.--
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Looking at the sources in the article when 'John Forbes Nash Jr.' is used it's typically only once in an given work and 'John Nash" is used throughout the rest of it—
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John Nash. I don't yet have a stance on either (although it is true that page views seem to show a primary topic, particularly after accounting for the fact that
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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is genuinely never called just John) but I'd note that we have yet to look at the reasons for or against the latter question.--
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expecting it to take me here, if there is no consensus for "John Nash" being a common name, I would also support a move of
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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for the current dab page (scroll down) shows the vast majority, approximately 90%, of outgoing pageviews being to
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no primary topic. The mathematician seems to be more commonly referred to as John Forbes Nash in any case. --
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That is a fair point that I did not initially consider. As I only started this RM because I went to the page
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until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. ‑‑
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The mathematician gets several orders of more page views than all the other articles combined—
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There are two questions at play here: is the mathematician the primary topic, and is his
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he's the clear primary topic, but given he's obviously not to everyone I'm saying there
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