Person talk:Philippe de Ligne (1)

Surname or Title [4 July 2011]

I suppose his surname is d'Arenberg and his title 1er duc d'Arenberg or 1st Duke of Arenberg. In case of continental European nobility I do prefer the original names and not the American Wikipedia-interpretation. In this case the French version of Wikipedia is much more adequate, also giving the places of the events.--Klaas (Ekjansen) 02:16, 4 July 2011 (EDT)

Actually, I think it's "de Ligne", or perhaps "d'Ligne". In any case, the English/American Wikipedia form has utility as an initial - and later on - redirected form of a Person's page name. When I'm adding pages that exist in WP, using that is more convenient. I expect, that when conventions for some of these less common name forms are adopted, the WP name will get redirected to the new name. On a separate note, we should probably add the WP/FR as a source in these cases.--jrm03063 06:55, 4 July 2011 (EDT)