[WikiEN-l] Personal titles (was: Saints)

[Poor, Edmund W]

Vicki wisely wrote:

> 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 [beatified] 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.

Looks like a common sense approach like Vicki (a professional
Proofreader) suggests, is better than creating more rules.

Ed Poor