Talk:Edmund Moody

This should be a disambiguation page

This article differs from the previous entry here by contending that there were two people about the same time known as Edmund Moodye (Moody), one who saved the life of Henry VIII and another who became captain of the guard at Dover Castle and later MP for Dover. Whoever made this change as if they were some arbiter on the matter. What demonstrates that these were two different people? Different dates and places of birth? The author of the current entry simply makes the change on the grounds that we should trust him/her. That they know the facts and they shouldn’t be questioned, that because of their standing as a great historian they need not supply any evidence for the veracity of their contention. That someone can do would be equivalent to my changing the entry for Jesus to declare the he was someone I went school with. “Evidence, I don’t need no stinking evidence.”

Simply deciding that this article should refer to one of them is not rational as the details for each person should be maintained as independent biographies. This article should disambiguate the name into two sub articles, one for each person. As it is this article serves only to increase the confusion it contends to resolve. Everyone should be able to see the details of the two lives which differentiate one from the other rather than simply asserting that there were two people who were previously conflated but now we should all focus on one and forget the other. Apparently the author of the this edit thought that the individual who saved the life of Henry VIII should be discarded as being of no historical importance. I disagree. Richard Lloyd Rankin (talk) 20:06, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Article needs editing

Why is there an edit war in the body of an article? 2A01:4B00:A8F3:A400:A98A:1E94:C222:706A (talk) 00:12, 15 February 2022 (UTC)