[WikiEN-l] Saints

Thu Oct 23 23:27:32 UTC 2003

Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:

>This is basically the--sensible, I think--approach recommended by Fowler, decades
>ago: start by calling people by the name they're best known by, and optionally add
>others. So Mother Theresa gets listed as that ("Saint Theresa" needs to be a disambiguation
>anyway), and the article should note her birth name as well as the fact that she was
>canonized by the Roman Catholic church in 2003 (other churches also have saints,
>but not the same list--so we need to be specific). Ringo Starr isn't a redirect to
>Richard Starkey, and Gerald Ford is listed as that, not primarily as "President Ford" or
>by his birth name.

Call people the name they're best known by --
just like [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions]] has said for years?
What an intriguing and revolutionary proposal!

<end sarcasm>

Yes, Vicki is entirely correct.

-- Toby