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– no clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC per page views [1] Joeykai (talk) 16:32, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nomination. There are four men listed upon the Brandon Thomas (disambiguation) page, with no indication that the late-19th-century–early-20th-century actor-playwright, who wrote one hit play, left such a major imprint on history that his renown overwhelms the combined notability of the remaining three men. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 19:44, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. None of the other people listed at the disambig page were important at all. The North American football player was injured before his professional career and hardly played. Is he even notable? The others seem similarly barely notable (one doesn't even have his own article). This person is the primary topic for this name, at least for now. Even though he is best remembered for one hit, it was a massive hit. -- Ssilvers (talk) 23:32, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 23:34, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per User:Ssilvers's well-stated opposition plus WP:RECENTISM. — AjaxSmack 00:33, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Ssilvers's argument. He is WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for long-term significance. 125.167.59.48 (talk) 00:37, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support the footballer has 712 views, the American footballer has 540 and the musician has 11 compared with only 274 for this one. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:25, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - the relative renown and importance of the Brandon Thomases is pretty clear. Tim riley talk 22:20, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. It's generally a bad idea to have a primary topic for a generic name like "Brandon Thomas" unless the ptopic is widely known, since otherwise it's likely to lead to mistargeted wikilinks. An editor wanting to refer to the football player might easily write [[Brandon Thomas]] - after all, how well does the average editor writing about American sports know their Victorian playwrights? Indeed, when I browsed mainspace wikilinks to the base name, I found at least 7 mistargeted wikilinks. Some referring to the football player, and some referring to other Brandon Thomases who aren't even listed on the dab page (including, for example, the link at Joe Gibbs Racing). Colin M (talk) 20:08, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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 *'''Support''' the footballer has 712 views, the American footballer has 540 and the musician has 11 compared with only 274 for this one. '''[[User:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Green">Crouch, Swale</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Crouch, Swale|<span style="color:Blue">talk</span>]])  09:25, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 *'''Oppose''' - the relative renown and importance of the Brandon Thomases is pretty clear. '''<span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">[[User:Tim riley|<span style="color:# 660066">Tim riley</span>]][[User talk:Tim riley|<span style="color:#848484"> talk</span>]]</span>''' 22:20, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
+*'''Support'''. It's generally a bad idea to have a primary topic for a generic name like "Brandon Thomas" unless the ptopic is widely known, since otherwise it's likely to lead to mistargeted wikilinks. An editor wanting to refer to the football player might easily write <code><nowiki>[[Brandon Thomas]]</nowiki></code> - after all, how well does the average editor writing about American sports know their Victorian playwrights? Indeed, when I browsed mainspace wikilinks to the base name, I found at least 7 mistargeted wikilinks. Some referring to the football player, and some referring to other Brandon Thomases who aren't even listed on the dab page (including, for example, the link at [[Joe Gibbs Racing]]). [[User:Colin M|Colin M]] ([[User talk:Colin M|talk]]) 20:08, 16 January 2022 (UTC)