Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
This is basically the--sensible, I think--approach recommended by Fowler, decades ago: start by calling people by the name they're best known by, and optionally add others. So Mother Theresa gets listed as that ("Saint Theresa" needs to be a disambiguation anyway), and the article should note her birth name as well as the fact that she was canonized by the Roman Catholic church in 2003 (other churches also have saints, but not the same list--so we need to be specific). Ringo Starr isn't a redirect to Richard Starkey, and Gerald Ford is listed as that, not primarily as "President Ford" or by his birth name.
Call people the name they're best known by -- just like [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions]] has said for years? What an intriguing and revolutionary proposal!
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Yes, Vicki is entirely correct.
-- Toby