[WikiEN-l] Elizabeth Smart

Andrew imthesponge at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 29 05:38:50 UTC 2003


I agree with keeping it at [[Elizabeth Smart (kidnap victim)]], if that
means anything.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
To: <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:19 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Elizabeth Smart


> RickK wrote:
> >There's a war going on as to what to call the Elizabeth Smart article.
> >It can't be just [[Elizabeth Smart]], because that's a disambiguation
page.
> >It can't be [[Elizabeth Anne Smart]] because she isn't known by her
middle
> >name.  It was at [[Elizabeth Smart (kidnap victim)]] yesterday, but is
now
> >at [[Elizabeth Smart (2000s media sensation)]] , which, IMHO, is not only
> >offensive to her, but a ridiculous name.
>
> Using a person's middle name or initial is a natural way to disambiguate
and
> therefore acceptable ([[George W. Bush]]/[[George H. W. Bush]]).
[[Elizabeth
> Smart (kidnap victim)]] would be my second choice. The 'media sensation'
one
> has got to go, though.
>
> I see the article is at [[Elizabeth Smart (kidnap victim)]] right now, so
I'm
> happy with that.
>
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)



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