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On 4 July 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to John Daly. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

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February 24 points here for the death of one John Daly (journalist, game show host) in 1991. Some sort of disambiguation is needed, I guess. --Naddy 12:24, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

It would be informative if someone could include whether or not John's parents and siblings are still alive and if so whether or not he is still closely involved with them. Thank you. 68.34.31.38 (talk) 15:37, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page not moved at this time. The page view stats have this article viewed an order of magnitude more than all the other John Daly articles combined, give or take. On the other hand, the Australian politician was a major figure in the government there in the late 1920s and early 30s, which makes him quite notable even without a legion of page views.

It's an interesting enough case that, if it's proposed, it should be formatted as a multi-move, and advertised on the talk pages of the disambiguation page and all of the "John Daly (foo)" pages. This closure does not imply any position for or against such a proposal. - GTBacchus^(talk) 05:28, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

John Daly (golfer) → John Daly – Pretty much the primary topic as evidenced by the page views. Marcus Qwertyus 07:21, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support: Didn't go through all the traffic stats but seems right and I trust the nominator. –CWenger (^ • @) 20:51, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Seems like a fairly obvious one to me. Jenks24 (talk) 10:29, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. John Daly (Australian politician) is one of Australia's most famous and colourful politicians to date. This golfer, while famous for several reasons, is not in the same class. I don't claim that the Australian is the primary meaning, but rather that there is none, so the DAB should stay where it is. (And incidentally, this should be discussed as a multiple move, as presumably it's proposed to move not overwrite the DAB.) Andrewa (talk) 07:28, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia is not a Tabloid

The personal life and marriage sections of this Wikipedia article read like a tabloid magazine article. Also, many of the contentious statements found in this article do not have citations for verification. The instructions at the top of this talk page includes the following: "This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous." Therefore, much of the information found under the personal life and marriage sections should be removed immediately to avoid any potential problems. Mistercontributer (talk) 18:08, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Storage Wars

I'm not sure if it is worth adding, I've seen it added to several other peoples pages that have been on reality shows, but Daly was on an episode of Storage Wars. I'm not going to add it, someone else can make that decision.Zdawg1029 (talk) 02:32, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reality show

Daly starred in Being John Daly, on the Golf Channel, which aired in 2010. See, for example, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/arts/television/02being.html . Should be added to article. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:06, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Disambiguation

Shouldn't there be a disambiguation line at the top pointing to John Daly the far-better-known journalist? It would seem that's the normal Wiki model. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.34.131.212 (talk) 18:04, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No. No one is like to get to this page while looking for someone else.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Tewapack (talk • contribs) 18:52, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Marriages and children

Currently the information in the infobox field "children" does not match at all what is written in the personal life#marriages section in the body of the article. The infobox lists a different mother to John Jr to what the article's body states and mentions a second daughter not mentioned in the body of the article. Moreover the source used in the infobox is nothing but a name.T v x1 17:22, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 4 July 2022

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. This is a fairly ordinary pageviews vs. long-term significance disagreement. Both sides' arguments have some grounding in policy, so given the numerical split I can't say there's a consensus to alter the status quo. (closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 20:22, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

John Daly (golfer) → John Daly
John Daly → John Daly (disambiguation)

– The golfer is the primary topic as indicated by page views. The golfer is getting about three times as many page views as all the other John Daly's listed. About 86 percent of outgoing page views from John Daly are for the golfer. The John Daly cocktail named after the golfer is the third most sought page after John Charles Daly. Schierbecker (talk) 06:26, 4 July 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 13:52, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support. The only opposition when this was last proposed in 2011 was based on the long-term significance of John Daly (Australian politician); however, that article is only averaging about 1 click per day [1] and the golfer is a clear primary topic. 162 etc. (talk) 16:14, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The golfer is not so relevant in his sport + a lot of people with the same name, also in the sport John_Daly#Sports and trafic page is not the most rilevant indicator of primary topic. MrKeefeJohn (talk) 19:39, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User:MrKeefeJohn, he is regularly one of the top 10 most viewed Wikipedia golfers on Wikipedia. What do you mean he is not so relevant in his sport? Schierbecker (talk) 19:52, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I looked for some toplist of golfers outside wikipedia and I didn't find him in any of them. For example [2] and [3]. For me popular it's not the same of important and use the visitrate of wikipedia's page to fix what it's important, or not important, it's not correct.MrKeefeJohn (talk) 20:00, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is Bob Ross the best painter? Has Carl Sagan won the Nobel prize? Can Jack Black bring an audience to tears at the Met? John Daly introduced the game to millions, which is why he is so well known. Schierbecker (talk) 20:37, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We're talking about John_Daly_(golfer) and not about Bob Ross, Carl Sagan, Jack Black or someone else. I expressed my opinion, I motivated it and I answered to your question. I think it's enough. Please don't try to force to change my mind this way, it doesn't work ;-) Bye! MrKeefeJohn (talk) 20:51, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Certainly not more notable than all the other 19 John Dalys on the list combined. When there are so many, a prospective primary topic needs to be overwhelmingly better-known. He is not, unless you happen to be a golf afficionado. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:03, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
With over 75% of all pageviews (more if you don't count the eponymous cocktail), it appears that he is indeed overwhelmingly better-known. 162 etc. (talk) 16:53, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Pageviews are not the be all and end all of notability! -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:33, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per MrKeefeJohn and Necrothesp. Upon the John Daly disambiguation page, there are three men listed under "Entertainment", seven men under "Politics", nine men under "Sports" and eleven men under "Other". Thus it does not seem likely that the golfer has greater historical notability than the combined renown of all the other men. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 18:51, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. The golfer holds a sizable lead in pageviews – six times the average daily views of second-place John Charles Daly, and nine times the views of the third-place cocktail named for the golfer. I took a look at Google and Google News results as well, to get a sense of the relative popularity from non-Wikipedia sources; I checked the first three pages of results for each venue, and both were exclusively about the golfer. Results for "John Daly -golf", meanwhile, were about a mix of different figures (including John Charles Daly, John Daly (producer), a professor at UT Austin, obituaries of non-notable individuals, and – even still – the golfer); this suggests to me that there's not a clear "second place" topic that's meaningfully jockeying with the golfer for primacy. Consequently, I think the evidence supports that the golfer is the primary topic. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 19:41, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The page views are heavily skewed due to systemic bias and recentism. The golfer is the beneficiary of these skewed page views just because he is currently a living person, an American, and a sportsperson (a golfer in particular) competing in this age of the Internet. If Wikipedia and the Internet was around back then when John Charles Daly was alive, for example, I suspect that the newsman's association as the host of the popular American game show What's My Line? (where he was known as simply "John Daly") would have generated an equal amount of page views and various RMs to make him the primary topic or at least a parenthetical disambiguation title. And John Daly (Australian politician), as another example, has another strike against him because he was an Australian in the 1920s-30s and not an American in 2022. If this was a similar situation where a former or current political party's leader in the United States Senate got expelled today from his/her party (specifically either current Majority leader Chuck Schumer or Minority leader Mitch McConnell), there would be 24/7 news coverage all over the American mass media, and the resulting page views and historical notability from that. Zzyzx11 (talk) 07:06, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Most of the 32 daily readers landing on John Daly want and expect the golfer. We shouldn't be forcing them to hunt halfway down a dab page to click on the article they're seeking. Station1 (talk) 04:51, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Zzyzx11 and the historic and prominent journalist. Randy Kryn (talk) 00:22, 13 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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