Talk:William Lort Mansel

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Requested move 23 July 2019

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The result of the move request was: Moved – Rationale supported, and only mild reservation expressed. (non-admin closure) Dicklyon (talk) 04:57, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

William Mansel (bishop) → William Lort Mansel – WP:MIDDLENAME Use most common form of name: compare Google hits for ["William Mansel" "Bishop of Bristol"] and ["William Lort Mansel" "Bishop of Bristol"] (Nothing in WP:NCWC, cited for the move, contradicts this practice.) LookLook36 (talk) 22:55, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DBD: for your consideration LookLook36 (talk) 20:21, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure simply comparing Google hits is necessarily how we're supposed to do this. There are any number of official sources which routinely list full names; moreso for people of that era, moreso the longer after the subject's death. I took a look for sources in Google Books from 1798–1830. This record from the Lords uses just one forename, for instance: [1]. Again, this contemporaneous record: [2]. I'm not convinced. DBD 21:30, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DBD: There are also contemporaneous sources using "William-Lort Lord Bishop of Bristol" in 1810, and "William Lort Mansel" in 1806. LookLook36 (talk) 21:45, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@LookLook36: Yeah, but both in highly formal publications. I don't know. We don't replicate the 18th/19th century convention of hyphenating forenames here... So I wonder why we would replicate the convention of using all forenames? Encyclopaediae at the time would always have titled biographies with the subject's full name; yet we do not. DBD 11:53, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DBD: I take your point, but surely, if that's how he was generally known at the time – even if in a different time, with more formal conventions – then that's how he was generally known, we follow it. If he were around now, as Bill Mansel (or, having taken a salaried academic position at an American university, William L. Mansel), he'd be delivering his sermons in rolled-up sleeves. It's not for us to remake the past in our own image. LookLook36 (talk) 18:17, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:CONSISTENCY, this is the style we've adopted for every other Timothy Michael Dolan is the quickest example that comes to mind, but most others follow. TonyBallioni (talk) 04:47, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Out of interest, every other what? Dolan is at Timothy M. Dolan. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:39, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Huh. I'm sorry, I swore I remembered Dolan being the full name. I was probably thinking of Justin Francis Rigali or Wilton Daniel Gregory, or a few other prominent American bishops. Looking closer in the category, we seem to have a mix of full name vs. initial vs. common name. I'm still in support though, using a full middle name is common enough within the category for consistency to apply and it's a natural disambiguation. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:48, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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