Talk:Micheal Spurlock

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What's your name, What's your name, What's your name?[edit]

OK. There are three articles as i write this, with virtually identical content; i intend to merge the other two into the one accompanying this talk page (#1 below):

Micheal Spurlock - 4 revisions, 20 October 2006 thru 6 March 2007
Michael spurlock - 1 revision, 17:37, 9 February 2007
Michael Spurlock - 1 revision, 17:40, 9 February 2007

There is a correctly spelled name "Micheal"; Johnny Micheal Spann#External links cites the corresponding agent's funeral oration, where the correctness of the spelling provides pretty damn good evidence. Although Micheal is a rdr to Michael, we have a number of examples where the other spelling is clearly recognized; Micheál Martin is one where the diacritical mark offers confidence of a non-typo.

Spurlock G-Tests fairly well balanced between the two spellings; that actually favors the odd spelling, since as a misspelling, "Micheal" is far from being that common. Likewise, i GTested more specifically

2 for "Michael Spurlock" "January 31, 1983" OR "Jan 31, 1983" -wikipedia

and

8 for "Micheal Spurlock" "January 31, 1983" OR "Jan 31, 1983" -wikipedia

and i argue that pages that have done enuf research to have an exact DoB are more likely to have been careful about the spelling.

Also, the similarity of the contents of the pages suggests the creator of both "Michael" pages copied the content of the "Micheal" one, bcz they thot the two (title and box-heading) "Micheal"s were spelling or transcription errors, and the one Michael one (lead sent) was the correct version.

(I am generally a bug for merging histories, but in this case the Feb 9 ones offer no new information except for the apparent error. I am "burying" them under rdrs to this talk page's article.)
--Jerzy•t 05:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Official references[edit]

Buccaneers.com lists his name spelled as "MICHEAL" (the "unusual" spelling)[1]
NFL.com lists his name spelled as "MICHEAL" (the "unusual" spelling)[2]
ESPN.com lists his name spelled as "MICHEAL" (the "unusual" spelling)[3]
Pro Football Reference lists his name spelled as "MICHAEL" (the "common" spelling)[4]

Chances are, the last one on that list is simply in error. Three official, edited and reviewed sites list his name as "-EAL." Doctorindy (talk) 22:05, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]