Talk:L. Harold DeWolf

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Requested move 29 January 2019 edit

Latest comment: 5 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion

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 section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:22, 30 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Lotan Harold DeWolf → L. Harold DeWolf – Per MOS:COMMONNAME. 142.160.89.97 (talk) 05:13, 29 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:47, 29 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

He and others likely abbreviate a forename to its initial, but it may be better for the page name to state his full forename. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:49, 29 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

@Anthony Appleyard: How would that be reconcilable with MOS:COMMONNAME? The full name isn't even sufficiently prevalent so as to register on the Google Ngram. And there's 30 times the number of references on Google to the abbreviated name. (Granted, of course, that we don't make decisions based on those alone.)

Looking at the five criteria, precision and consistency aren't relevant here, but the case for the proposed name under the other three criteria is rather self-evident. And the subject-specific naming convention provides, "Generally, use the most common format of a name used in reliable sources: if that is with a middle name or initials, make the Wikipedia article title conform to that format." 142.160.89.97 (talk) 03:07, 30 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

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