Talk:Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr./Archives/2017

Surname length: 810?

This is getting ridiculous. Pasting the surname the article states has 666 letters into a character counter returns that it has 810 letters.

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http://www.charactercountonline.com/

So is it just hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia or how long is this name!? --Harmenator (talk) 09:03, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

The name has 666 letters. Your character counter is wrong, because it is including the discretionary hyphens used for line breaks. (But really, you could have easily answered this question yourself by counting the letters manually.) —Psychonaut (talk) 15:41, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

EDIT: nevermind, it says 666 for the __surname__ .. given that i don't know where the surname begins, i don't know how long the surname is. Divinity76 (talk) 11:33, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Cleanup

I have thoroughly cleaned up this article. Changes include the following:

• Fixed formatting (including liberal use of discretionary hyphens for long words).
• Merging of duplicate references. (Various individual newspapers were used to cite the same AP story.)
• Deletion of unsourced or poorly sourced material, most notably the death date, and claims that any one version of the name is "canonical".
• Replacement of some inaccurate and/or unreliably sourced material with reliably sourced material, including the name itself and the translation of the name.
• Refactoring and cleanup of the remaining references. In one case this (correctly) broke a citation template, because someone had cited a journal without indicating the title of the article. If anyone knows the title, please provide it.
• Moved the article from Wolfe+585, Senior to Hubert B. Wolfe + 666, Sr., as there are reliable sources attesting that the article's subject used the latter, but no reliable sources I could access attest to the former. (Was that abbreviation invented for use on Wikipedia?)

If anyone has reliable sources (preferably pre-dating this Wikipedia article) for the following, please discuss them here:

• The date of death
• The use of "Wolfe + 585, Senior" as a short form of the name

—Psychonaut (talk) 10:43, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I did some more digging. The only published reference I've found so far for "Wolfe + 585 Sr" is the Weekly World News, which is not a reliable source. That paper also reprints the 1904 birthdate (which is dubious given that he was drafted in 1942) and claims that his surname has 590 letters in total (but doesn't print it in full). Does anyone have a source for his birthplace being Bergedorf? Hook (1991) lists his birthplace as "Bergerdorf" (citing Guinness)—it's not clear whether this is a typo or the name of some other locality. —Psychonaut (talk) 12:00, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I finally tracked down a copy of the 1985 Guinness; this seems to be the source of the "Wolfe+585" version. It also lists his birthplace as "Bergedorf" (not "Bergerdorf") and gives the 1904 birthdate. I have updated the article accordingly. There seems to be disagreement among reliable sources as to whether the most abbreviated version of his last name is "Wolfe + 666, Sr." or "Wolfe+585, Sr.", so it's not clear whether either of these is a better title for the article. I suggest this could be most easily resolved by moving the page to Hubert Blaine Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff, Sr., which is a version of the name that many reliable sources (including Borgmann, Hook, and Guinness) do seem to agree on. Since that title is blacklisted I will open a requested move shortly. —Psychonaut (talk) 12:18, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Re: Date of Death

We really need a picture of the tombstone. With the full name engraved. When they finish it. WHPratt (talk) 05:00, 1 July 2017 (UTC)