Something different to talk about. I have wondered for some time if it
is really the case that we have not addressed the issue of alias
names, where the point may simply be alternate spellings. This is not
particularly important for contemporary names that are already
Romanised. It is
On 18 October 2010 12:23, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
As far as I can see [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)]] doesn't
cover this ground, while dealing with numerous points in the same
general area of naming. My instinct is that multiple possible spellings,
I've always said that extensive variants on spelling and
transliterations should go into footnotes and/or a section in the
article itself, rather than in the first sentence of the lead section,
but there is also an argument that people expect to find it in the
first sentence. Where to draw the
Spooky. We both typed YMMV. :-)
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On 18 October 2010 12:23, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
As far as I can see [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)]] doesn't
cover this ground, while dealing with numerous points in the same
general area of naming. My instinct is that multiple possible spellings,
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Maybe an infobox section would be appropriate here?
Oh, please no. You need to explain the name variants and languages,
otherwise you get nationalists edit-warring incessantly over it. The
Copernicus one is a good
