Why use his full name?[]
Wikipedia's page for him is John Dumphreys. Do we have a policy preferring full names in page names? I had the impression that the policy went for the shorter name unless ambiguous. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 03:54, August 12, 2015 (UTC)
- Not enough people to have a preferred policy - but the BBC pictures page has his full name [1], and there are the occasional genealogical contributions and enquiries and similar. Jackiespeel (talk) 09:29, August 12, 2015 (UTC)
- ("Not enough people" presumably means not enough contributors.) Our article now has his full name in the text, so that should be adequate for web searchers. The BBC article page misspells his name in the URL, and its page "title" has his dates and "title" too; clearly we don't want to do either of those. I can suggest an easily-remembered and easily-usable policy: "Use the Wikipedia page name unless a particular case calls for something different because of the nature of this wiki". That makes linking to the WP page easier, if nothing else. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 11:09, August 12, 2015 (UTC)