Talk:2017 New Year Honours

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Capitalisation

I don't know who it was that tried to change all the citations to comply with Wikipedia's Manual of Style, but whoever it was made a right Horlicks of it to put it bluntly. The result was that countless towns, cities, and other geographical areas and other proper nouns were converted to start with lower case letters. I and others have tried to correct some of the more obvious howlers, but have doubtless missed some. Can I please request that if things can't be converted correctly they should be left as in the original citation. In fact it is strongly arguable that the citation of the award is a quotation and ought to be left unaltered without regard to the MOS. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:01, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

David, it wasn't me that did it but I did correct some of the "Mc" surnames as they were in lower-case. On the London Gazette Supplements all surnames are capitalised. I also added "Barron" as a middle-name for Andy Murray but am happy to remove it as per London Gazette citation.

I shall look at previous years lists to see which styles were used on Wikipedia. - Geck0 (talk) 20:39, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, I personally prefer the use of an em dash after the surnames/previous honours (refer to 2016 list), as it makes it all easier to read. At the moment it's a wall of names and I think an em dash :separator is welcomed. —Geck0 (talk) 20:48, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, to be sure, you're right. That'll be horlicks with a small h, then. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:52, 31 December 2016 (UTC) p.s. an emdash would be fine by me and I think it would be an improvement.[reply]

Complete list?

Is this list suppose to be a complete list? Because I don't see Alex Scott (footballer, born 1984) on it. Govvy (talk) 11:24, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

She's there, in the list of MBEs, civil division. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:34, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@David Biddulph: Hmm, that really took me a while to find her, when I did a search, I was doing "Alex Scott" and the middle name was there so that stopped that search string from working, also I tried searching for Alexandra, which didn't work. So I was thrown off. Regards. Govvy (talk) 12:20, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In those lists it's usually easier just to search for the surname, but of course in this instance it finds many instances of "Scottish". - David Biddulph (talk) 12:26, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]