Talk:Michael Hardy (attorney)

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Michael A. Hardy, Esq. was an American civil rights attorney from Brooklyn, New York who was involved in numerous civil rights and police brutality cases spanning his 36-year career spanning from 1988 to 2024.[1] He is credited by American Bar Association as editor of "Constitutional Policing: Striving for a More Perfect Union,"[2] a 2023 published examination of "policing in America."[3] Aside from having played historically-documented parts in mega-cases[4] -- including the Tawana Brawley case[5] and the Eric Garner case[6] -- Michael A. Hardy, Esq. is best known for his longtime 30-year role of service as legal council for famed civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton.[7]

Subject, Michael A. Hardy (civil rights attorney) not to be confused with Michael Hardy redirects to Hardy (singer).

** The page Michael Hardy redirects to Hardy (singer). Please ensure it is not a copy or that this page is located to the correct title.

HumanWritesBook (talk) 22:42, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It has been proposed in this section that Michael Hardy (attorney) be renamed and moved to Michael Hardy. A bot will list this discussion on the requested moves current discussions subpage within an hour of this tag being placed. The discussion may be closed 7 days after being opened, if consensus has been reached (see the closing instructions). Please base arguments on article title policy, and keep discussion succinct and civil. Please use {{subst:requested move}}. Do not use {{requested move/dated}} directly. Links: current log • target log • direct move

Michael Hardy (attorney) → Michael Hardy – Although the singer's full name is Michael Hardy, there doesn't seem to be widespread use of that name in reference to him, as he's usually credited as just Hardy. Therefore, this can be presumed to be the primary topic for "Michael Hardy" Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:09, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguate. The singer has three orders of magnitude more pageviews than the attorney. When I searched the web for "Michael Hardy", the top six results were evenly split between the two. As you said, the attorney is commonly referred to as "Michael Hardy" and the singer is not. Given all this, I think there's just no primary topic. jlwoodwa (talk) 20:40, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose as noted the singer's full name is "Michael Hardy" and its only WP convention to use the subject's common name even though "Firstname Lastname" is otherwise the expected title for people. Given the huge pageview different the singer would only occasionally need to be called by their full name in order to need to disambiguate the attorney. See Talk:Steven Morrissey (footballer)#Requested move 27 August 2018 for a similar discussion but as noted above I'd be fine with a DAB. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:24, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment i am leaning towards disambiguation because there is no primary topic in this case since the singer does have its own natural disambiguation but it is not to justify that michael hardy obviously refers to the attorney either. Jorahm (talk) 16:53, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]