Delirium wrote
I agree---I use these all the time. In some academic disciplines it's common to refer to well-known or even moderately well-known people by surname only. If I don't happen to be familiar with the person myself, I find out who they are by looking up the surname on Wikipedia, and scanning down the list for someone of the right occupation and right era.
Glad to hear it.
I'm hoping to start some work on [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (human name pages)]]: see on the Talk page of [[WP:MOSDAB]] for some discussion starting.
Charles
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(human name pages) sounds odd. What about calling them what they are: "surname disambiguations".
Mgm
On 8/24/06, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Delirium wrote
I agree---I use these all the time. In some academic disciplines it's common to refer to well-known or even moderately well-known people by surname only. If I don't happen to be familiar with the person myself, I find out who they are by looking up the surname on Wikipedia, and scanning down the list for someone of the right occupation and right
era.
Glad to hear it.
I'm hoping to start some work on [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (human name pages)]]: see on the Talk page of [[WP:MOSDAB]] for some discussion starting.
Charles
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On 8/24/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
(human name pages) sounds odd. What about calling them what they are: "surname disambiguations".
Agreed, let's keep it real.
Steve