Talk:John/Eleanor Rykener 1

Not quite a move request

Does this article really need to be at the "slashed" name? Without reading it in depth, my impression is that one of the two names could beneficially be the article's name, with the other a redirect. Not that the situations are directly comparable, but The Rock and Bruce Jenner both get by without the slash in the article title and still get the relevant aspect across in article prose. I'm hesitant to argue too strongly for this without knowing how the sources treat the issue, so this is more of a suggestion to the regular editors that it might be worthwhile to consider whether the choice was deliberate and in line with the article naming guidelines (vs. some variant of happenstance). --Xover (talk) 07:37, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Touched on here. —SerialNumber54129^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 08:48, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Reading over the article slightly more carefully, I don't really see the justification for the slash. Based on what's there, this is a person named "John Rykener" that for some purposes used the alias "Eleanor Rykener", where article naming is concerned. Do the sources really routinely conflate the two identites in this way? Keep in mind that there are a lot of situations where Wikipedia adapts external conventions to conform to our own guidelines (names in view of name changes, gender and pronouns in cases like Caitlyn above, style issues like changing quote marks around a play title to italics when it appears within the title of a book or journal article, COMMONNAME article naming, and so forth). If there's an argument to made for keeping the slashed name, it is not apparent in the article as it currently stands (which, admittedly, is after edits to address FAC comments regarding this issue from a different angle), and so must be based entirely on how the sources treat the issue. In any case… No skin off my back, so I won't belabour the point. This was just a nudge to the regular editor(s) to take a second look. --Xover (talk) 10:36, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]