General agreement with all of you, except for the HC Andersen bit. In English, we use Hans Christian, so that's how people will look him up. I was under the impression that trying to write the articles with "most familiar English-language version of name (when applicable)" was a consensus-driven wiki norm? I think that reading the discussions under nomenclature and the History Talk would also help you, Lars! Tschuess -- JHK
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Julie Kemp juleskemp@yahoo.com writes:
In English, we use Hans Christian, so that's how people will look him up.
First, don't forget that one can easily make one page redirect to the other, so only the "real" page title is at issue here; an issue for pedants only.
I was under the impression that trying to write the articles with "most familiar English-language version of name (when applicable)" was a consensus-driven wiki norm?
What if the most familiar version is objectively wrong? One case in point is that we don't have [[e. e. cummings]] which seems to be the most used spelling, while we do have [[E. E. Cummings]] which people seem to consider right. Actually the first should at least redirect until we have software that doesn't discern by case.
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