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Agustin Le Prince

Hello Earlyfilmhistory. A few weeks ago you removed my notes on Augustin Le Prince's name from the Louis Le Prince article. I can imagine it was too detailed and possibly confusing, but the information seems quite relevant and the referenced source [1] (note 3) appears to be very reliable (more so than most other sources on this topic that I know of). I don't know whether you saw it as an inconsistency or a "fake quotation" or why else you removed it, but would you mind putting back at least some info about his most commonly used first name and the spelling of his last name?Joortje1 (talk) 06:17, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Louis le Prince page

Hi Joortjel1. You're correct, I did remove it because it seemed far to finicky a point to have in the opening section, which is what is shown in Google searches. But it is worth saying that nobody really called him Louis, so I have now put the information in the section about his childhood, which was previously named "Father and Mother", and added the citation. Earlyfilmhistory (talk) 08:07, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for following up! I agree that it was too finicky and believe addressing it in the childhood section is a decent solution. I'm not entirely sure whether his family called him Augustin when he was young and it may be notable that he is called "Augustin Le Prince" on his patents, but let's just say those are minor details, for the moment. It's easy to understand how influential historians or reporters chose to shorten his full name differently if they lacked this kind of documentation. Probably too late to change the general public's mind, and maybe wikipedia is not really the platform to do so, but I hoped my attempt with reference to an authoritative source would help a bit. I'll see whether I can find a less finicky and clearer way if I get around to work on the article some more.Joortje1 (talk) 10:31, 11 November 2020 (UTC)