Talk:Irish public servant

It has been proposed in this section that Irish public servant be renamed and moved to Paul Reid (HSE)Paul Reid (HSE). 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

Irish public servant → Paul Reid (HSE)Paul Reid (HSE) – Paul Reid is the person in question of the article. God only knows why this page was moved to 'Irish public servant' by a user in March 2026 and not been noticed or changed since then. 'Paul Reid (HSE)' was the title of the article, but cannot be moved due to the existence of a redirect. Edl-irishboy (talk) 11:38, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

Support – WP:NCBIO. No reason was provided for the original move and the current name is almost certainly going to cause confusion (I would imagine there are many pages on Irish public servants).

• Suggestion – I admittedly don't know much about the Irish government so feel free to correct me if this doesn't make sense. That said, since Paul Reid's primary role is now in An Coimisiún Pleanála and not the Health Service Executive (which is what I assume HSE stands for), would it maybe make more sense to move the page to something like 'Paul Reid (Irish politician)' or 'Paul Reid (Irish public servant)' and have Paul Reid (HSE) redirect there?

Chammomileon (talk) 15:29, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

Sorry I forgot to clarify! I'm in support regardless of if you consider my suggestion or not since the proposed move is still more accurate than the current title Chammomileon (talk) 15:30, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

• Move to Paul Reid (public servant), only public servant at Paul Reid so is enough. "HSE" is ambiguous too, and he is no longer with the HSE in Ireland. Obviously move away from the current nonsensical one, may be they were supposed to move it to Paul Reid (Irish public servant) as that was created at the same time? Nonetheless the title "Irish public servant" should be deleted post-move. I also support any move over the current. DankJae 22:29, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
• Support move. To either Paul Reid (public servant) or Paul Reid (HSE). As the nom notes, the recent move seems inexplicable. And surely an inadvertent error. Perhaps Financefactz can explain the rationale. But, presumably, they intended to add "Irish public servant" as a DAB suffix or something. Rather than to be the title of the article.... Guliolopez (talk) 10:39, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
• Move to Paul Reid (Irish public servant), firstly mea culpa and apologies as this was what I intended to move the page to originally but I copied and pasted the name from somewhere else and was unaware I had made the error of leaving out the actual name and brackets which were obviously a key element. Paul Reid no longer has involvement with the HSE so I don't think it would make sense to have the name of the organisation you previously worked for in the name of the article itself unless perhaps you were dead and had never worked for any other organisation or were particularly synonymous with that organisation. In the case of Paul Reid he has had many notable roles in the public service over the course of his career although his wikipage may not reflect all of them. I chose "Paul Reid (Irish public servant)" rather "Paul Reid (public servant)" as Paul Reid is a particularly common name but would also be happy with the later.Financefactz (talk) 11:20, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
• Support move. I would support either Paul Reid (public servant) or Paul Reid (Irish public servant) however that could be wordy. Edl-irishboy (talk) 20:52, 11 April 2026 (UTC)