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I'm not sure that the move was a good idea, for two reasons. He was always known as "The Surrey Poet", and his verse was so bad that it's rather stretching things to call him a poet rather than a writer of verse. JH (talk page) 08:46, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Without inverted commas, it's saying he was a poet who came from Surrey, as distinct from another Albert Craig who was also a poet but hailed from Lancashire, perhaps. But "The Surrey Poet" was not simply a way of describing him, but the actual nickname he bore, so it should always have been Albert Craig ("The Surrey Poet") if we were going to use that to disambiguate him.
But disambiguation tags are meant to be as absolutely minimal as possible, just enough to distinguish the subject from other people of the same name. For example, if it were ever necessary to disambiguate William Shakespeare, would it be William Shakespeare ("The Bard of Avon"), or would it be simply William Shakespeare (playwright)? I strongly suggest it would be the latter.
If it were not for Craig's poetry, would we be remembering him at all? We acknowledge that his writings, whatever their merits, do fall into that technical definition of poetry: "His poetry was not renowned for any literary merit …". And we do have a "See also: Cricket poetry" at the bottom. But I note that he's not in any poet categories, so we seem to having a bet each way here.
I'm reminded of William McGonagall, who "… was a Scottish weaver, doggerel poet and actor. He won notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of or concern for his peers' opinions of his work." At McGonagall, he's listed as "William McGonagall, a Scottish poet". And he's in Category:Scottish poets and Category:Victorian poets.
