On 18 October 2010 12:23, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> 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, > for example surname variants, should go into a footnote or perhaps be > boxed up, as a way of keeping them from distracting the casual reader. > They are certainly of interest to specialists and scholars, and have a > role to play in making search work. You mean, to avoid an article starting '''Topic''' (paragraph long bracketed bit; several sections separated by semicolons; in a variety of scripts; 200 words of it) is ... Yeah, if that makes editorial sense. That said, it's arguably important to keep common spellings (whatever "common" is) right up there near the top of the article, so people going to the alternate spelling know it's actually a valid alternate spelling they went to and not wrong per se. YMMV. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
