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Cheers
One of the more remarkable things about Bruce Smith's career in Buffalo was to hear the home-game cheers after a sack. For an outsider, it sounds like they're booing, but they were all saying "Bruuuuuuce!" It must have been unnerving to QBs.
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BetacommandBot15:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)reply
Met him, great guy
I met Bruce at a fundraiser for Boy Scouts on Mar 25, 2009. His big theme was that we must take care of our youth as they are the future; whether it's through sports, Scouts, church, or whatever. He gave great credit to his high school football and basketball coaches, who were both in the audience. This date was after he was elected to the NFL Hall of Fame but not yet inducted. —
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Support. Looks like a good primary topic to me based on usage. Consistantly gets more
page views than any other and more than 70% of the total, clearly this is the topic most users are searching for.
PC78 (
talk)
10:09, 14 May 2019 (UTC)reply
Oppose per In ictu oculi. A very common name with 14 notables listed at the
Bruce Smith disambiguation page — too many for primacy by anyone other than an instantly recognizable household name throughout the English-speaking world — not the case here. —
Roman Spinner(talk •
contribs)06:22, 15 May 2019 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. The existence of other people with the same name doesn't preclude one from being the primary topic. Calidum14:28, 18 May 2019 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Far too many names on the DAB page, and the defensive end is unknown outside USA. Making him
WP:PTOPIC is a guaranteed way of accumulating bad links-in which are unlikely to be found and fixed and which will degrade the encyclopaedia.
Narky Blert (
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16:17, 21 May 2019 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Bruce who? Certainly not the overwhelmingly most notable person with this name. Remember, most of us in the world do not follow (or indeed, have any interest in whatsoever) American football. Some sportspeople are household names even for those who do not follow the sport; he is not one of them. --
Necrothesp (
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13:06, 22 May 2019 (UTC)reply
Support per
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and nom, and I'm baffled by the opposition here, that seems to be applying imaginary criteria in determining primary topic. Second criteria not mentioned? Too many other notables for any one to have primacy? Not instantly recognizable household name throughout the English-speaking world? Current setup makes it easy to spot incorrect incoming links? Not the overwhelmingly most notable person with this name? None of these hurdles are policy-based criteria for determining primary topic, and arguments based on them should be discounted accordingly by the closer. --
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