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On Nov. 8, new calendar Orthodox and Catholic Eastern churches celebrate St Michael. On Nov. 21, old calendar Orthodox and Catholic Eastern churches celebrate St Michael. Secretly to each other they say "today is really Nov 8 but the modernists don't know" You have it backwards 2607:FEA8:FF01:78AF:1517:E254:7046:5345 (talk) 15:43, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

the doctrine that Michael is Adam is God the Father was taught by some early leaders of the Church, and is still believed by some fundamentalist groups. see Adam-God doctrine 2607:FEA8:FF01:78AF:1517:E254:7046:5345 (talk) 16:09, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

why these only? The choice of languages seems either random, or original research (I have decided these are the important ones), or the plumes of a peacock. 2607:FEA8:FF01:78AF:1517:E254:7046:5345 (talk) 16:18, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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• Michael (archangel) → Michael
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– The archangel has around 7 times the page views of the given name over a 90 day period (see here). I'd move the archangel to base name per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and long-term significance for the angel. cookie monster 755 00:57, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment not convinced there's a PRIMARYTOPIC, I'd probably have DAB at base name.--Ortizesp (talk) 02:36, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's better than having the given name at the base page. cookie monster 755 02:54, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose 1st, Neutral 2nd. It doesn't seem like the archangel is the primary topic. I think that either the given name OR the disambiguation page should be at the basename. Paintspot Infez (talk) 02:49, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose instead replace the base location with a disambiguation page. -- 64.229.88.43 (talk) 04:32, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose 1st, support 2nd indeed the archangel gets more views but the given name also has long-term significance so the DAB is probably the best option. Crouch, Swale (talk) 07:59, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose 1st, support 2nd Michael (disambiguation) to baseline. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:38, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Support both per pageviews. The dab page is barely used, so making it primary helps very few readers. Srnec (talk) 14:10, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose 1st, support 2nd. Those are not the only two "Michael" topics. See Michael (disambiguation). —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 20:00, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose 1st, support 2nd Per WP:NOPRIMARY, while moving the disambiguation page to base name. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 22:55, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose first, neutral on the second. "Michael" is in way too common use to refer primarily to the archangel. JIP | Talk 07:20, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose 1st, neutral on 2nd. The archangel is clearly not the primary topic for this very common name. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:46, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]