Talk:William Direen

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COI style edits?[edit]

I just wikified this page. It read like a promotional piece and seems to have a long history of COI style edits and changing formats. Hocklebritches (talk) 10:12, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just had a fresh look at this. Re COI edits, page maintaining Wiki standards.

Merge notice[edit]

It's not really acceptable format on Wikipedia to split an article such that his music and his writing are treated in two different articles whose only basic difference is using the full or diminutive form of his given name. Pick one name or the other, deal with both topics there, and redirect the second name to the first one. Bearcat 02:02, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sweet as. Merged Bill Direen into William Direen because Bill is an identity of William. Might need a tidy up. 218.101.74.17 00:55, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moved[edit]

He's known as Bill exclusively in music circles, and as both Bill and William about equally in poetry circles, and in recent years almost exclusively as Bill (see this link for an indication of the names used on various poetry publications). As such, it makes far more sense for the article to be at Bill. (Although OR doesn't count here, I know him in both musical and poetry circles and have only very rarely heard him called anything other than Bill). Grutness...wha? 14:47, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]