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The title

Can someone please point me to any prior discussions that led to this article about a mysterious disappearance being called "Natalee Holloway"? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 08:07, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Check archives.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:24, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

OK. I've started looking through the archives, checking all the threads with relevant headings:

• No one responded to this proposal here: "...I wuld be in favour of moving it to a more approproiate title, such as Natalee Holloway disappearance. User:KimvdLinde 01:19, 2 May 2006 (UTC)".
• 1st AFD. In this 2 May 2006 AFD discussion, the only comments on the title were from

• User:DejahThoris: "It seems like it would be more appropriate to have a page specifically about her disappearance, not about her, per se"
• KimvdLinde: "Move to Natalee Holloway disappearance case"
• User:Grandmasterka: "Perhaps rename to something like Natalie Holloway disappearance case"
• User:Thivierr: "Perhaps this article should be renamed "Disappearance of Natalee Holloway", and all other articles merged"

• Then there's this: "We've had a complaint letter about this page - no detail as to what the matters of concern are, but strong concern. If this page is treated with the concern relevant to biographies of living people, that would probably be best for all - User:David Gerard 18:52, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

  "...Maybe it becomes time to split this up in a bio and a case page. User:Dugodugo 23:36, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

  "Or just turn it into a case, for which there is plenty of precedent in the UK murders articles, eg Roy Whiting and Sarah payne became Murder of Sarah Payne, User:SqueakBox 23:51, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

  "An idea, but given that we have little to say about Natalee outside the context of the case, I on't know that it is worth it. If we renamed "Disappearance of Natalee Holloway" and did a redirect on Natalee Holloway to send things there (because frankly, there isn't much to say about her outside the context of the disappearance), I'm not sure we'd solve the problem. Yes, we wouldn't fall under the LB situation, but the objection I think is to the content. Any stick does to beat a dog It wouldn't stop the objection.--Wehwalt 00:01, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

  "This is basically an article about the case in its entirety already. There is very little biographical information, but I wouldn't support moving this to a new title anytime soon. If/when there is a conclusion to the case, then I could see renaming. - auburnpilot talk 23:54, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

  "A good thing about having an article eventually about the case, is that we could combine this article and Joran van der Sloot, something I've advocated before. But not yet. If Aruba announces the three aren't suspects anymore, and the WD suit in LA goes bye bye, then maybe.--Wehwalt 00:05, 16 May 2007 (UTC)"

• 6 June 2007 Wehwalt: "Well, maybe if the suspects are dismissed as such in the coming days, we can move this article to 'The Natalee Holloway Affair'"
• On 15 July 2007, User:Crockspot suggested moving to "Disappearance", and was opposed by Wehwalt ("There was some discussion of that above in topic #9, if you care to wade through that. Sentiment seemed to be against it"), AuburnPilot and Kww.
• In this 18 July 2007 BLPN discussion

• User:Crockspot again wonders if Natalee Holloway should be moved to Disappearance of Natalee Holloway
• User:Jmh123 thinks it should and
• User:Edison says, "Our style more recently has consistently been to title the article as the case, not the person (unless they were notable before the incident)."There is no consensus to move the Natalee Holloway article. Leave it alone. This is the second time this change is being reverted, so do not repeat it. Kww 04:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

• On a new editor's talk page: "There is no consensus to move the Natalee Holloway article. Leave it alone. This is the second time this change is being reverted, so do not repeat it. Kww 04:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
• In this December 2007 discussion User:Dystopos wondered "if it's not time to reconsider the idea of changing this from a biographical article to an article about Holloway's disappearance and the subsequent investigation and sensationalism." This was opposed by Wehwalt and mildly opposed by AuburnPilot, and Kww didn't care.

• 2nd AFD. In this 2007 AFD discussion, the only comments on the title were from

• User:Terraxos (now User:Robofish): "Move to Disappearance of Natalee Holloway"
• User:Dhartung: "Move to Disappearance of Natalee Holloway, even though I think this is a ridiculously unimportant factor, since it seems to sway people"
• User:Dougie WII: "I wouldn't be against a title change to Natalee Holloway Case etc."
• Wehwalt: "The question of titling has been debated repeatedly on the article's talk page, and the consensus is to have the article under this title"
• User:Cuchullain: "the title Natalee Holloway disappearance or some such thing may be more appropriate"
• User:J Milburn: "Move as above"
• Kww: "Bad faith nomination by someone who's attempts to rename the article against consensus were reverted twice"
• User:HisSpaceResearch: "move to Disappearance of Natalee Holloway
• User:Edison : "Move to Disappearance of Natalee Holloway..."
• Wehwalt: "Certainly good points, but the question of a move has twice been thrashed out on the article's talk page and been turned down. Shouldn't that be respected?"
• Edison: "I saw where a couple of editors on the article's talk page opposed a move to Disappearance of Natalie Holloway. On this AFD I see 5 calling for the move, in keeping with the fact that the disappearance has been widely written about, but the disappeared person was non-notable before she vanished. The"consensus" on the article talk page is not evident. It should be moved."

• On 1 Feb 2008 User: Mira Gambolputty moved it to Natalee Holloway disappearance and was told at BLPN by

• User:AuburnPilot that, since this isn't a biography, the BLP policy doesn't apply, and by
• User:Moonriddengirl, "I don't believe Natalee Holloway is low profile, and hence I don't believe that the article about her is problematic with regards to BLP, which is intended to protect individuals from invasions of privacy and Misplaced Pages from allegations of defamation. I am inclined to agree with that the page should be moved, per the notability guideline...", and by
• Wehwalt here, "With all respect to the editor, we've thrashed this out repeatedly here..."

Though, I've not seen any "thrashing out". If there had been prior "thrashing out", can you point me to it please? The user who proposed the move then left the project, and no one followed up Moonriddengirl's suggestion. Wehwalt AuburnPilot left a comment here saying, "Mira seems to have left the project, so it's not likely an issue anymore."

• 3rd AFD. In this February 2008 AFD discussion:

• User:Avb: "Keep and move to Natalee Holloway disappearance..." followed by an argument with Wehwalt and AuburnPilot
• User:Brewcrewer: "Move to Disappearance of Natalee Holloway"

• In this March 2008 discussion, User:AuburnPilot warns that this article is being cited in a couple of AFD discussions. One article is deleted and the other is moved to "Murder of".
• On 19 March 2008, in a move discussion, User:Baseball Bugs, User:AjaxSmack and User:Sceptre support a move to "Disappearance." Wehwalt, Kww and AuburnPilot oppose.
• In a May 2008 FAC discussion

• User:Karanacs said, "I'd recommend either a small section on her family life or rename the article to Disappearance of Natalee Holloway (with a redirect from this title)"

• In October 2008,

• User:Ilse@ says. "This article is giving a detailed description of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway and not of (the life of) Natalee Holloway. In this respect, the article is imbalanced. The detailed description of the disappearance should be moved to an article Disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The sections dealing with the disappearance in this article should be shortened considerably."
• Kww responds, "The naming has been discussed multiple times before, and the consensus has been to leave it here..."
• and Wehwalt, "I refer you to the repeated discussions on talk page, in archives, and in the three AfD's, in all of which the decision was to keep things where they are ... there is no consensus to change the name, judging by mine, Kww, and AuburnPilot's comments just in the last 24 hours."

• In this October 2008 thread, User:Dystopos agrees with User: Marskell, User:SandyGeorgia and User:Cla68 that the article should be titled "Disappearance of Natalee Holloway." Wehwalt, AuburnPilot and Kww disagree.

I've resumed working on this survey, have filled in missing bits up to October 2008 and will take it to 2013 next. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 08:03, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

• On 25 October 2008 SandyGeorgia said "Although every independent editor who has visited the page supports some combination of these changes, the three regular editors of the page Wehwalt, Kww and Auburnpilot resisted attempts to add bio info about Holloway to this article, while simultaneously resisting a move of this article to Disappearance of Natalee Holloway
• RFC. In this October 2008 naming discussion, User: Physchim62, Eiad77, Thumperward, Dystopos, Marskell and SandyGeorgia supported renaming, while Garycompugeek, JayHenry, User:Elmmapleoakpine, Kww, Wehwalt and AuburnPilot opposed.
• Here

• "Many editors have independently said that the name should be changed and each time a small group of editors has opposed. Sometimes perennial proposals are made because they are correct. I won't insist, because I don't care enough to make a huge issue of it, but just saying that it's been rejected in the past doesn't really fairly characterise the previous discussions, in which over time probably a majority of editors has supported renaming. Fences&Windows 03:37, 3 November 2009 (UTC) ..."
• Well, at the RfC, it was a rather large group of editors, and not just those who took this article to FA and TFA. The community was asked for its opinion, and a majority !voted against a move.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:42, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

• In another move discussion:

• "...it seems to me that the second AfD had a consensus to rename the article, and that there is also a consensus to rename the article if all the discussions are taken over time. I also didn't see any single discussion that had a consensus to keep the article at the current name. The request for comments seemed evenly split, while the first and third AfDs seemed rather indifferent to the issue of renaming, but with slightly more people between them being in favor of a rename vs. keeping the article at the current title. The other discussions in the talk page archives seemed to not reach a consensus individually, but again I don't think any of them had a consensus to keep the current name and that there is definitely a consensus to rename the article if the discussions are taken collectively. It also seemed to me that in a lot of the more recent discussions, the regular editors of the page would refer to the past discussions as if they had supported your position, but upon actually reading them I found that they supported the opposite position. ... User:Calathan 23:23, 2 June 2010 (UTC)" ...
• "You read consensus differently than I do. Arguments are to be weighted according to their strength, and how well they correspond to policies and guidelines. To date, no one has made a strong argument for moving the article. —Kww(talk) 04:19, 3 June 2010 (UTC)"
• Move supported by and Dystopos, User:Weakopedia, User:Robofish, User:Qwrk, Fences&Windows, User:Nescio, Uaer:JzG
• Opposed by User:ÅlandÖland (banned sock), User:Blaxthos, Kww, Wehwalt, AuburnPilot
• "It's not a bio, it's about her disappearance. This has been argued before and most editors who've aired a view support the rename, if you dig back through the archives. Fences&Windows 00:38, 9 June 2010 (UTC)"
• "Yes, it's been argued before, and a slim majority of people present the argument that you just have. Unfortunately, it isn't an argument supported by WP:TITLE. Can you make an argument that is?—Kww(talk) 03:16, 9 June 2010 (UTC)"

• A July 2010 proposed move to Natalee Holloway case was

• supported by User:Brazmyth, Dystopos, Weakopedia
• opposed by Kww, Wehwalt, AuburnPilot, HenryJay
• and two supported a move but not to the proposed title: User:Innotata and Fences&Windows

These are all the discussions I could find about the title. Feel free to add them if you know of any others. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 16:43, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

I see at least one comment that you've attributed to me that was in fact made by AuburnPilot. Could you be more careful please?--Wehwalt (talk) 08:44, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

No, I'm being as careful as I can. If you see an error, please either fix it or point me to it. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 09:45, 21 November 2013 (UTC) (Misattribution found and fixed. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 16:43, 24 November 2013 (UTC))

Also, you missed this thread. In which I proposed possibly moving the article to the Natalee Holloway Affair.--Wehwalt (talk) 08:49, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Added. Thanks for your help. Basically, I'm just looking at threads devoted to the title/move and any relevant discussions they point to, so if you notice any others I've missed, don't hesitate to add them or point me to them. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 09:45, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

And could I ask that if you quote me, that you append the full comment? The way you have cut my reasoning seems unfair.--Wehwalt (talk) 08:52, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

This is just a summary, but please make whatever changes you think will help to clarify the state of consensus on the title over time. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 09:45, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

It's bedtime here. But it's looking very like every visitor that comes to that page and expresses an opinion on the title thinks it should move to "Disappearance" ... except you three. The "owners". A couple of people referred to you as that somewhere in the archives. The "owners". --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 18:12, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Look, that's a pretty off-putting way of putting it. What do you intend to accomplish with that comment? It's one thing to propose a move, another to get personal. And I read your comments on Sandy's talk, which don't say you're coming in all neutral. You say you are coming here to mock myself, Kww, and AuburnPilot, here. I could answer you seriously, by telling you (though you are no doubt aware) that there have been as many views about keeping the article under this name, but as you are here to mock, I have a peer review to do elsewhere.--Wehwalt (talk) 22:27, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

No, no. I went to Sandy's talk page to laugh at you. I came here to find out what you're up to. As for your last assertion, "there have been as many views about keeping the article under this name," that's false - at lease up to October 2008. Not one visitor to this page, not one, supported this name. Not one. I didn't cherry-pick the above list. That's a chronological list of all mentions of the title from the first talk page archive forward. I'm busy today, but I'll continue my list when I have more time. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 04:17, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

That's just plain untrue, Anthonyhcole. You linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Natalee_Holloway/Archive_4#Disappearance_of_Natalee_Holloway . Take a look down the page at the RFC (i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Natalee_Holloway/Archive_4#RfC:_Proper_naming_for_article ). See JayHenry? See Garycompugeek? See how the RFC ended in no consensus? I stand by my analysis of policy in the RFC, by the way: Natalee Holloway remains the most policy-compliant title for this article. Incidentally, are you actually going to discuss your removal of the divorce language, or will it just be a post-and-run?—Kww(talk) 04:45, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

It's quite true, Kww. I'm only half-way down that archive page. I'm delighted for you that you can point to two people in that RfC who support the owners' naming position. As I say, I'm short on time today, but I'll get back to you. Just glancing at the RfC, though: I see six people, including User:Eiad77 and User:Thumperward, opposing it. If we add those to the list above ... I haven't counted but what is that? 20:2 opposed to your (the owners') version? The current title violates WP:N, per Moonriddengirl's above explanation. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 06:08, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Possibly you could wait, then, until the returns from Hayseed County come in. And I should not have to tell you that we do not vote, yada yada.--Wehwalt (talk) 06:16, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

I point out the overwhelming consensus against the owners' preferred title because you (plural) repeatedly say, falsely, in the above-cited discussions that consensus is in favour of your preferred name. To be clear: everyone who commented on the question, up to the point in October 2008 where I interrupted my reading yesterday, opposed your preferred title. You, however, repeatedly mislead people with the false statement that consensus supports you. That's not "vote counting", it's a straightforward reading of the record. It's a pretty clear demonstration of highly-inappropriate behaviour on your (plural) part. I'll continue my study of the archives here. If the above pattern of misrepresenting consensus continues to the present day (and a glance at the contents of the current talk page is not promising) I'll be proposing appropriate sanctions. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 06:37, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

You're free to propose sanctions if you like, but beware of the WP:BOOMERANG effect, given your self-declaration of bad faith. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:49, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Replied on Mark's talk page (permalink). --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 15:24, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Well, let me see, you've called me a liar and stated that you plan to have me sanctioned. AND you haven't even looked through all the archives yet, so you are calling a well-regarded (if I may say so) editor a liar without having checked the facts, although you did check in with Sandy, whose actions regarding this page are well-recorded and due no one any credit. If this is looked at after the fact, I would ask readers to note that I acted with great civility, at least up to and through this point. And I got slapped in the face with it. I'm not sure I trust myself to reply further, so will let it go at that.--Wehwalt (talk) 06:58, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I would like to as well. Just because I haven't reverted it doesn't mean I agree, it just means I don't care to edit war. I await with interest Anthony's rationale.--Wehwalt (talk) 05:14, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

I have explained my rationale for the removal of the excessive, intrusive and undue details around the missing woman's mother's second divorce, above, in the relevant section: it's a WP:BLP privacy violation. ---Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 06:08, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Wow, so this is still a thing? Five seconds looking at the article shows this is still as much of a pseudobiography as it was five years ago; accordingly, it should not be titled as a biography, but rather after the incident that it's really about. There should be no need to make things personal here (pardon the irony). Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 08:54, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Without knowing anything about this case and its history and not interest in digging up 2008, I think that the name of the person is the best name for the article, as in law cases you also start using the name of a party. Why make something complicated that could be easy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:25, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

That's the point I made at https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Natalee_Holloway/Archive_4#RfC:_Proper_naming_for_article . Our policies pretty much dictate that the only thing we discuss relative to Natalee is her disappearance, but the best place for an article about it is at Natalee Holloway.—Kww(talk) 13:21, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

And the argument is as wrong now as it was then. An article which has as its title a person's name (and is not exempted by being something obviously different, such as a book title) should present a biography of the person. This is what the reader expects. An article on an incident should be titled after the incident; it is the incident which is notable here and not the person. Invoking BLP1E is absurd: BLP1E most certainly does not recommend that if a person is only notable for one incident that said incident should be titled after the person in question. And of course the only reason we're having this discussion at all is because this subject doesn't seem to have attracted the attention of the stricter-on-BLP portion of the community, who like multiple other participants over the years wouldn't have considered a move remotely controversial. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 13:34, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

I would favor moving most articles of the form "The disappearance of x" to simply "x" whenever "x" doesn't have an independent article. BLP1E doesn't dictate the title at all, and MOS:TITLE still recommends using the shortest and simplest form. I take that to be the crux of Gerda Arendt's argument, and I don't think it was wrong when I made it five years ago or is wrong now. Your argument that articles named after a person are a biography of said person is generally true, but that's a result of the fact that most people that are the focus of an article have done enough to warrant a full biography.—Kww(talk) 13:44, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

You might favour that yourself, but it isn't remotely close to the community consensus. At the present title, this is a pseudobiography; pseudobiographies are harmful; therefore the article should be moved. Open and shut. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 13:50, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

That's an essay: why do you feel it has the status of representing community consensus? What living person is being harmed by this placement? A few years ago, when Natalee was presumed alive, this might have governed (if it was a policy or guideline). Today, it's an inapplicable essay: Natalee has been declared dead, and BLP concerns surrounding Natalee no longer apply. Can you make an argument that its placement harms one of the living people named in the article?—Kww(talk) 13:57, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

I think Moonriddengirl (quoted above) and Kww have clearly shown that WP:BLP is not relevant to the title question. It is always better, though, to title an encyclopedia article according to its subject - in this case, the disappearance of Holloway - and it's better to follow the guidelines - in this case, as defined in Misplaced Pages:Notability (people)#People notable for only one event. But I'm not losing sleep over the title, because everyone will find what they're looking for whether the title includes "disappearance" or not. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 17:58, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, there is no need to link these editors a second time. Linking five people who thought the name should be changed went to five notifications, and duly produced the desired effect of getting a partisan of better reputation than yourself, Anthony.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:06, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

The article is about the 'disappearance of Natalee Holloway'. It should be titled accordingly.Overagainst (talk) 22:21, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes. This article is not structured as a biography of Natalee Holloway; it is structured as encyclopedic coverage of her disappearance. Therefore, in my view the most appropriate title would be Disappearance of Natalee Holloway. MastCell  22:27, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

I have long been opposed to that naming convention for anyone. All the "suicide of" or "murder of" or "disappearence of" titles are degrading to the real human being who was the victim. And, for the most part, these articles so titled tend to be women, children, or gay men. If their name is notable for a standalone article, then the article deserves to be titled solely with their own name. Anything else is degrading and an example of the systemic bias problem on wiki. Let's drop this red herring. Montanabw 01:36, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

I oppose a name change, for the same reasons I always have. This is the most common search term, and there is no reason why we should redirect thousands of people a week. A look at the stats shows that Disappearance of Natalee Holloway, a redirect, is getting about 30 hits a day, and Natalee Holloway well over a thousand. The thing speaks for itself. As for the complaint that the "owners" are blocking things, we are consistent, not conspiratorial. Sorry.--Wehwalt (talk) 04:57, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Since redirects are automatic and invisible to the end user, I don't think the page-view stats are relevant. Everyone who searches for "Natalee Holloway" will end up at this article, regardless of its title. Montanabw, while I appreciate that you personally dislike the "Disappearance of..." naming convention, it is nonetheless a common and accepted practice on Misplaced Pages, and I'm not sure we should make a special exception on this article. I'm not aware that anyone has ever raised a systemic-bias concern about it. Please consider the reality that the category "women, children, or gay men" encompasses well more than 50% (and possibly more than 75%) of the human population, so that may be simpler explanation than systemic bias for the pattern you've observed. MastCell  06:11, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

That argument could be used to give every article an 11-digit serial number for a title and accomplish all naming with redirects. It's not a universal practice to disambiguate things with "Disappearance of ..." or "Murder of ..." (see Joseph Force Crater for the most notable parallel to this article). My argument remains that this article contains everything that Misplaced Pages should contain on the topic of Natalee Holloway. There's no need for disambiguation: we aren't going to have separate articles on different aspects of Natalee Holloway. Whatever happened to her, her opportunity to become notable for other things has been taken from her.—Kww(talk) 14:10, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Kww: earlier, someone pointed to the macabre Category:Murdered American children. Only one of these victims was notable prior to their demise. Of the 134 articles listed, 40 use the child's name for the title, the remainder use the event. (It seems like more than 40 on the category listing page because many are piped links).

Someone mentioned in an earlier discussion that the more recent an article is, the more likely it is to be named after the event (I haven't looked into that). So, clearly, some such articles are named after the victim but most after the event.

My reading (and Moonriddengirl's) of Misplaced Pages:Notability (people) is that we should name this article after the event.

I've provided a long list of people who support naming it after the event (I couldn't find any who supported your position except the 2 you pointed out), so usual practice, the notability guideline, and consensus all support naming it after the event. If you doubt that consensus supports naming after the event, let me know and I'll continue with my survey of the archives. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 14:58, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Except for the other two editors that have spent hundreds of hours considering the article and Montanabw above? In the sense that no one has provided an policy-based argument for why we would not follow MOS:TITLE, yes, I challenge the existence of a consensus to move. There's certainly a precedent for moving it, but no actual policy-based or MOS based argument for doing so. WP:N and its derivatives are not normally used for guidance as to titles, and, at least in this case, they contradict MOS:TITLE's clear guidance to use the simplest form and avoid unnecessary qualifiers.—Kww(talk) 16:39, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

I think you're thinking of WP:TITLE, rather than MOS:TITLE. The former policy does, indeed, list conciseness and simplicity as one (of five) considerations in choosing a title. However, it also lists consistency as a consideration, and explicitly states that in borderline cases "it may be necessary to favor one or more of these goals over the others. This is done by consensus." The policy repeatedly suggests referring to previous precedents, which certainly seem to favor a "Disappearance of..." title (as Anthony has described above). The bottom line is that this is a matter for discussion and consensus; policy explicitly says as much. MastCell  19:19, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

A move discussion would open up the whole broader issue that crosses dozens, if not hundreds of articles. There is no "policy" here, only guidelines. The "consensus" on these degrading "death of foo" titles is mostly that of the usual cabal of tendentious bullies who simply cannot see the dehumanization of victims inherent in such a policy or guideline. The only "consensus" there is "run off anyone who disagrees with us." If the person is notable enough for a standalone article (the classic case being the victims of Columbine, who do not have individual articles, for the most part), then they are notable enough for an article titled in their own name. For pete's sake, Lawnchair Larry is only notable for one event, and he has his own article. (sigh) Montanabw 19:47, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

I think your view of the proposed title as "degrading" is not widely shared. I also don't think it's helpful to post a condensed stew of unsubstantiated accusations against some amorphous cabal. To your last point, it is of course possible to identify anecdotal examples and counterexamples, which is why we're having this discussion. If there were an obvious Right Answer, there would be no need. MastCell  21:49, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

The title of high profile article Disappearance of Etan Patz has not been objected to by Etan's father, who did some editing and appeared on the talk page. Nor has there been any apparent objection to the title of Disappearance of Madeleine McCann by her family. Apparently those most concerned don't think those titles degrade. Having just the name as the title is misleading as to what the article is about; the article should be titled in accordance with the subject, which is the 'disappearance of Natalie Holloway'. _Overagainst (talk) 22:17, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm not convinced that such a title would be degrading. What I'm most concerned about is creating an unnecessary vacuum: once the article is at "Disappearance of Natalee Holloway", there's a natural desire for people to create one at "Natalee Holloway" that would detail her school years, including her career as an honor student and as a winner of various awards during her high-school years. There have been a few such shrine versions of the article proposed over the years. The tendency to have one may have lessened over time, but in the early days when the issue of the disappearance was such a polarising issue it was a very real issue. As it stands, the additional disambiguation would still be superfluous: what would anyone expect us to discuss in relation to Natalee Holloway aside from what is in the article?—Kww(talk) 00:30, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Quite the opposite. It's the 'no-saint' stuff which seems to multiply and spread through Misplaced Pages like a chancre. It even got its own article: Beth Holloway. When a NPOV article 'Disappearance of Natalee Holloway' is in place there will be no vacuum, or even room for any other article on the people involved. We can use the already existing 'Background section to give an account of her studies, intended career and interests in a couple of sentences. And a sentence on aspects of her personalty that may be relevant to the subject 'disappearance of Natalee Holloway', something alone the lines of "her mother described Holloway as not particularly worldly for her age".__Overagainst (talk) 10:34, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

I hadn't been aware Beth Holloway had been split off. I'm not sure it should exist.—Kww(talk) 13:17, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Here is what it looked like when it was created in aug 2010 with sections from Natalee Holloway. I don't see where anyone tried to to remove the page on Beth Holloway. Overagainst (talk) 13:58, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

I find it very surprising that a position I've heard so often from Misplaced Pages's hardcore inclusionists ("We should have an article titled for the name of every person, for otherwise such an article would eventually be created anyway") coming from someone who knows better. As to MastCell's point about there not being an "obvious Right Answer" here, there plainly is: the least worst option has been suggested seemingly dozens of times over the years, and the page has been moved more than once under firmly established consensus (the comment above about WP:PSEUDO being "only an essay" is neither here nor there; it's a widely-respected piece of advice, so what colour of stamp it has is irrelevant). Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 14:41, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

That isn't quite what I said, Chris. I would be much more inclined to be in favor of moving the article if there were a consensus to full-protect any redirect placed at Natalee Holloway.—Kww(talk) 15:54, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

I'd be more than willing to support that, especially if that's what it takes to get this fixed. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 18:03, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

• I still support a move to a title that communicates the subject of the article. --Dystopos (talk) 20:35, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

I won't stand in the way of a move if that's what people want but I agree with Kww that the redirect needs to be full protected. I am also concerned that Anthonyhcole, in summoning only the editors who supported a move to this page, canvassed in addition to the personal attacks he made which he has not withdrawn.--Wehwalt (talk) 02:17, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

I have no online time just now. I ping anyone I mention for the first time in a thread. I listed everyone who discussed the title on this talk page from the first thread to October 2008. Sorry if it's inconvenient for you that every one of those supported naming the article after the event. If this hasn't moved when I get some more online time I'll finish my survey of the archives and then open an RM discussion, per Mark's advice. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 11:57, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

So you leave your accusations hanging. Nice guy, you.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:39, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

With a protected redirect (which I think is to prevent creation of a new 'Natalee Holloway' bio article) is anyone still actively opposing the article being renamed 'Disappearance of Natalee Holloway'? Overagainst (talk) 15:47, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Well, let us take that the other way, and see if everyone's in agreement. You, Overagainst? If so, and if you don't mind my being the admin to do it, I will implement it.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:39, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

That is fine by me.Overagainst (talk) 19:09, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

OK, let's give it 24 hours to ensure the debate has settled. If no one objects, I'll do what's necessary. I will also leave a note with the FAR coordinator, or at least one of them.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:49, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Well, I object strenuously to the rename, as I do to ALL of the dehumanizing "death of foo"-titled articles. But as[REDACTED] is not ready to acknowledge this problem of systemic bias, I doubt I can prevail here, particularly if I'm the only one even making the argument. So l=Let's just make yet another dead young woman further an object or a thing on wiki, not a person. Or maybe we should be fair and rename ALl the "famous for one thing articles: Make Lawnchair Larry's article Flight of Lawnchair Larry. I'd settle at least for consistency. Montanabw 07:50, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Then let's put it at WP:RM and allow for full outside discussion. Overagainst, do you want to do the honors?--Wehwalt (talk) 09:49, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Wehwalt, no thanks, I make too many mistakes with notifications ect when doing things for the first time, like I did at the FA review.

Montanabw, Natalee Holloway's life ended with notable events, and 'Disappearance of ...' titles are consistantly used for those kind of articles with absolutely no objection, not even from the loved ones who have edited the article. I have pointed that out above. An 'event' is the kind of title appropriate if Lawnchair Larry's escapade had resulted in his death or disappearance. In that counterfactual case the title of the article would be different, but it would be nothing like the one your suggesting (ie 'Flight of Lawnchair Larry') . He certainly would never have been known as 'Lawnchair Larry' if his flight ended his life, because that would be an inappropriately jaunty moniker for the protagonist of a tragic story. There were two major events in his life, one was his flight. The article has some merit as a bio of a comically insouciant character who achieved celebrity while he was alive. The other other major event notable in Larry's life was his death by an apparently self inflicted gunshot wound, so the article has a bit more of the full bio to it than you are giving it credit.Overagainst (talk) 10:34, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Love your hypocrisy here, OA, you argue that she's so non-notable that she doesn't even deserve an article with her own name and yet at the FAR, you are screaming bloody murder about misogyny. Really, at least be consistent. Montanabw 23:54, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

And yet we do have articles on the Darwin Awards.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:52, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Wehwalt, I might be up for the WP equivalent of a Darwin award if, having just initiated the FA review, I then took your kind invitation to 'do the honours' by requesting a name change. People might get the idea that Overagainst is the troll from hell.Overagainst (talk) 11:06, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I think there's clearly a consensus for the move. As WP:CONSENSUS notes prominently, consensus doesn't mean unanimity. I'm going to go ahead and implement the consensus on this talkpage by moving the article. I will leave the question of protecting the redirect for others - I would personally be fine with Wehwalt doing it, since there's a consensus here. MastCell  19:35, 18 November 2013 (UTC) ADDENDUM: On second thought, given the number of pages and discussion archives, perhaps the move should be performed by someone with greater technical expertise than I in such matters. I'm afraid I'd bollix it up. That said, I think there's clearly consensus for the move here. MastCell  19:38, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Not me. I'm the sort of admin who breaks for cover at the first mention of a "history merge".--Wehwalt (talk) 19:50, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Move request, November 2013

I've left a note at WP:RMTR. We have consensus to move Natalee Holloway to Disappearance of Natalee Holloway but neither User:Wehwalt nor User:MastCell is confident they have the technical prowess for the necessary history merge. Would someone like to take a crack at it? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 04:07, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Are you now prepared to withdraw your claims of misconduct, now that you have found more time to work on the article?--Wehwalt (talk) 04:11, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

I haven't had time to work on the article. But I'll have more to say about your conduct soon. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 04:14, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Really. Do you think Kww and I used our status as admins to intimidate people in the 2008 and prior move discussions you say you've checked?--Wehwalt (talk) 09:18, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

This isn't anything to do with you having admin permissions. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 09:52, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Oh? What does it have to do with?--Wehwalt (talk) 10:05, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Your behaviour as an editor. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 10:13, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Even if there were something wrong with it in this case, which there isn't, stuff that happened five and a half years ago? Wow.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:19, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

This is going nowhere if you and Kww acknowledge that, in the past, you misrepresented consensus regarding the correct title for this page, and tell me you don't do that kind of thing any more. If that happens, I'll get back to patrolling Recent changes/Medicine. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 10:38, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Done by User:Anthony Appleyard. Thanks, Anthony. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 10:13, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

You encouraged me (your talk) to place the following here, but I certainly don't want to increase the heat of this discussion: I think that by the logic that moved Holloway, we should think about renaming Adriana Lecouvreur to Opera on Adriana Lecouvreur and Mona Lisa to Painting of Mona Lisa, because otherwise readers might expect a biography, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:05, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Noted. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 14:14, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

I thought about it more. What do you think of article name her name, but mention disappearance prominantly above the (unrepeated here) image, similar to what we do for an opera? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:46, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Titles of articles on operas ect which could be mistaked for a biography of what is actually a titular character could be italicized. Or include a parenthetical disabiguation in the title. Or both. By the way there is an Amanda Knox article, apart from the the article Murder of Meredith Kercher which has a long section on her. There has been a Beth Holloway article for some time.Overagainst (talk) 13:37, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Regarding that last, both Amanda Knox and Beth Holloway have had the opportunity to enter history as the subjects of their own noteworthy actions. Natalee Holloway has been, due to the circumstance of her presumed death, unable to act. Her "biography", such as it could ever be conceived, is that of a typical high school senior who met a tragic end. That end (the disappearance and presumed death of a minor), though tragic, is a relatively common occurrence and gained notoriety more as a media sensation than as a deadly crime. --Dystopos (talk) 22:54, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Proposed addition to lede

The article says: "According to Julia Renfro, U.S.-born editor of the Aruban tourist-oriented newspaper, Aruba Today, who befriended Twitty in the early days of the investigation ... within a couple of days, after fixing responsibility on Joran van der Sloot, (Beth) Twittywas telling TV interviewers that she knew her daughter had been gang-raped and murdered".". So the current lede text reading "Holloway's family criticized Aruban investigators throughout the search for a perceived lack of progress in finding her." is not quite accurate. I propose it should be replaced with "Aruban police were criticized by Holloway's parents for what they perceived as a lack of rigor in the investigation and questioning of the three men last seen with her".Overagainst (talk) 19:34, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

FAR now rejuvenated

I have re-added the FAR tag. Feel free to comment at Misplaced Pages:Featured article review/Natalee Holloway/archive2. --George Ho (talk) 23:04, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Y'all, please note that there are over a dozen dead links (see Toolserver report) that should be fixed before the FAR is closed. If these could be addressed, it would be much appreciated. Thanks! Dana boomer (talk) 15:56, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

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