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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. No further edits should be made to this section.
Oppose. What evidence is there that this musician is commonly known as "Robert James Smith"? If he's not commonly known by that name, this move would make it much harder to find this article. Note that he certainly is commonly known as a musician. 209.211.131.181 (talk) 21:12, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per 209.211.131.181. The nominator's rationale is flawed. It is doubtful that any reader will type either "Robert Smith (musician)" or "Robert James Smith". Instead s/he will likely type "Robert Smith" in the Wikipedia search bar or in a search engine like Google. Therefore the question is which disambiguator better serves such reader, and in this case, it is the current title. If there is another disambiguator that can better do this, please propose it, but his middle name is not it. — AjaxSmack 02:56, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - I don't see the point or any name change. Are people coming to this article looking for another Robert Smith, and then somehow trapped within a vortex and unable to escape, never able to find the other Robert Smith? Article title is perfection. Wikimandia (talk) 04:41, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. We don't use middle names unless they were commonly used. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:45, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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This is a very helpful article. Atlantis Hawk 08:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Last edited at 08:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC).
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Little mention of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and Disintegration[edit]
This article should include more info on these two albums in Smith's music career section, especially the latter, given that it's one of The Cure's most praised albums yet (if not, the most), and is a featured article here on Wikipedia. Josharaujo1115 (talk) 02:56, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Need to show an earlier picture of Robert Smith[edit]
Not enough pictures in this article. Many of us would like to see how he looked when he started out in his first band at the age of 14, together with his brother Richard, younger sister Janet, and some of his friends. I would like to see that picture as well as a separate picture of Robert Smith at age 14. That would set the stage as a starting point of his career. I wish somebody would go out and retrieve these pictures and include them in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.140.162.81 (talk) 02:02, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I know that I'm being lazy in not searching for fair use images myself, but this article really needs more images of him from the 1980s. CAVincent (talk) 06:55, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
They'd really need uploading to Wikimedia Commons first. I can't see any image of him from the 1980s on Wikimedia Commons that aren't already included in this article. Helper201 (talk) 08:36, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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