Talk:Joseph Sua'ali'i

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Joe or Joseph[edit]

Currently, Suaalii is widely known as Joseph in the media, however, there are small mentions of him being known as Joe among teammates and coaches. As per WP:COMMONNAME, this is not reason enough to move the article title, but as for the infobox title, I don't think it's an appropriate place to WP:REFSPAM about a MOS:HYPOCORISM. I personally think that for WP:BLPs, the title of an infobox should be the same as the article name, but I'm not sure if the MOS is specific about that. @Fleets: perhaps you'd like to weigh in. Narkova (talk) 03:31, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would say if the likes of Trent Robinson and Wayne Bennett refer to him as Joe, backed up by cited sources, then it is justified. I am not claiming that he is only known as Joe, and the links you have referred to could be appropriately targeted to the body text.Fleets (talk) 07:24, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Joe is a common English-language diminutive of Joseph, and its acknowledgement is seemingly unnecessary under MOS:HYPOCORISM, but for the time being I've moved it to the body text and reduced the string of references to just one to tidy it up. Narkova (talk) 12:33, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]