The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. There is a consensus to move Bernard Hughes to Barney Hughes, and delete Barney Hughes (disambiguation) since hatnote could disambiguate better. (closed by non-admin page mover) Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 10:43, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Bernard Hughes → Barney Hughes
• Barney Hughes → Barney Hughes (disambiguation)

– Reposted malformed request on behalf of User:Billsmith60, with the following rationale: "Barney Hughes, the 19th-century Belfast industrialist and philanthropist, is renowned to this day. Hence "Barney Hughes" should be his page and I recommend that "Bernard Hughes" should be moved to "Barney Hughes". I moved the "Barney Hughes" page detailing "Robert Wood Hughes", a minor rugby player, to one of that name and see that, helpfully, it has been renamed "Barney Hughes (rugby union). Thank you." 162 etc. (talk) 23:45, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Bernard Hughes → Barney Hughes per nomination and per BBC link which indicates that subject's given name was not "Bernard", but "Brendan", although his WP:COMMONNAME was "Barney". However, oppose Barney Hughes → Barney Hughes (disambiguation) per WP:ONEOTHER, but would support Barney Hughes → deleted to make room for move. A hatnote atop his entry pointing to the rugby player should suffice. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:04, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  The BBC appear to be in error: a contemporary street directory, DIB and author Jack Magee all have him as "Bernard" and not Brendan (a name that only rarely leads to the pet name "Barney"). I am unable to find any authority for "Brendan" Billsmith60 (talk) 16:50, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Bernard Hughes → Barney Hughes, and delete Barney Hughes (disambiguation) which is no longer required. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:33, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Bernard Hughes → Barney Hughes, but delete Barney Hughes (disambiguation)—disambiguation can handled with a hatnote.—ShelfSkewed Talk 22:14, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support alternative per above. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:28, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems as if this proposal has unanimous support. Now that I have improved the article a little, including the subject's first name, can someone with the know-how request the following: 1. Move Bernard Hughes -> Barney Hughes. 2 Delete Barney Hughes (disambiguation). 3. Insert this hatnote at Barney Hughes: {{distinguish|text=Irish rugby player [[Barney Hughes (rugby union)]]}}. Thank you Billsmith60 (talk) 13:50, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]