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This subarticle is kept separate from the main article, Kamala Harris, due to size or style considerations.

Text and/or other creative content from this version of Kamala Harris was copied or moved into Kamala Harris's tenure as Attorney General of California with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

On 24 August 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from Kamala Harris's tenure as Attorney General of California to Kamala Harris as Attorney General of California. The result of the discussion was moved.

Requested move 24 August 2024

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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Apart from the two oppose !voters that presented their oppose with no citation to any policy, I am moving this page with consensus driven per WP:CONSISTENT and WP:CONCISE. (closed by non-admin page mover) Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 04:23, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kamala Harris's tenure as Attorney General of California → Kamala Harris as Attorney General of California – Per WP:CONCISE and this discussion. estar8806 (talk) ★ 04:16, 24 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 07:18, 1 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 07:22, 1 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. FOARP (talk) 15:32, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the proposed title parses as "Kamala Harris when she was Attorney General of California", which would include biographical information about that period of her life, whereas the scope of the current article is "acts performed by Kamala Harris in the role of Attorney General of California". Dekimasuよ! 12:46, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For what it's worth we have examples like Keir Starmer as Leader of the Opposition. I haven't looked all the similar articles up but if they all follow the same format an argument can be made for this move based on WP:CONSISTENT. Keivan.f^Talk 14:01, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am able to support this because it appears to be a convention that we follow with other pages and it makes sense when you read it. Jorahm (talk) 16:48, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Looking at Category:Tenures in political office by individual, "tenure as" titles seem to be preferred for inferior executive positions, while "career of" is preferred for legislative positions, and simply "of" for seniormost executive positions. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 00:37, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per concise Red Slash 19:01, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support per concise.

𝚈𝚘𝚟𝚝 (𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚟𝚝) 15:59, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Makes things more vague, doesn't help navigation or readers in the slightest. This seems to be a solution looking for a problem. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:19, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per concise Tom B (talk) 15:44, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:CONCISE. Dympies (talk) 04:41, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support the page titles are sort of inconsistent here so I would go with the WP:CONCISE one... Jorahm (talk) 17:21, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

WP:NOR violation

The first 4 paragraphs do not have any reference. Can someone explain why is this is the case, and also the paragraphs should be changed to include references. Hadjnix 07:36, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is how articles are meant to work, see MOS:LEADCITE. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 11:46, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]