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I'll agree that I'd personally prefer to see the title using the middle name, but the standard is to use only the first name. Q 14:31, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
- Which standard? This says use middle initials. Help:Source page titles--Amelia 14:48, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
- The one Solveig applies when she drops initials. Actually, I have seen that stated explicitly, somewhere. Q 14:56, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
- The place to state it is on the page instructing people how to name pages, so until that's changed, I'm not moved. I too remember a discussion about this somewhere, but I thought the answer was that you use what's on the book if you can (that's the standard for the other citation formats I use, though, so perhaps I'm inventing things).--Amelia 15:14, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
- Don't know. Makes no real difference to me, but I know Solveig did change several pages like that in conformance. I'll see if I can find the specifics. Q 15:21, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
- See Titles for person pages. The page I saw was more explicit than this, but this is the same message. Q 15:51, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
- That's person pages, not source titles. No initials on person pages has programming/usability reasons not present here.--Amelia 15:55, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
- Yes, I realized that after I posted. I thought I'd removed that, but you apparently saw it between times. This wasn't what I think I saw previously. Q 16:15, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
- Hi, I made some mistakes a while back. We are using middle name or initials. Sorry for the confusion. Does anyone have time to make that clear on the help page? --sq 16:01, 1 July 2009 (EDT)
Merging other sources into this one [30 June 2009]
Thanks Amelia.Gerlicher (and Susan Irish) you really improved and decluttered my attempt to merge the various Vital Record of Rhode Island sources.
I noted you removed the list of FHL film numbers, which is fine with me. But they are on a lot of source pages (presumably due to import from Family History Library). Is it a problem to have made them go away? Brenda--kennebec1 16:10, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
- They were there as generic content from the import. They don't serve any purpose given that there's a link to the film list under repositories already.--Amelia 16:14, 30 June 2009 (EDT)
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