Talk:Alan Nunn May

Merge
Obviously Allan Nunn May is the same person. Which way should the merge go? This spelling ("Alan") does seem more common online (by about a factor of about three) but I'm inclined to suspect it is wrong, and just got used ignorantly because it is a more common spelling of the name. (The other seems an unlikely thing to have been introduced if it wasn't correct.) I found the spelling "Allan Nunn May" in That book is generally well proofread. Also, Alan Moorehead apparently wrote a book titled The Traitors: Klaus Fuchs, Allan Nunn May, Bruno Pontecorvo. It seems he'd be unlikely to misspell in a title. But I see some sources I'd usually consider high-quality using "Alan" (e.g. an obituary in The Independent). In any case the articles should be merged and both spellings should be mentioned; the question is whether one is correct and should be favored for the article location. - Jmabel | Talk 08:29, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree that the articles should be merged. I have no idea what the correct spelling of the first name is, but I myself would spell it Allan (if nothing else, to me that's the more common spelling!) Just a technical question: what happens to the revision history in case of a merge? Turgidson 13:26, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * As far as I know, the best way to handle that is:
 * Copy the text of the article being merged from verbatim below the text of the article being merged to. The edit summary on this should include the link to what is merged from.
 * Turn the article being merged from into a redirect.
 * Edit the article being merged to to integrate the material.
 * Then the history of the merged article will contain a link back to the other article, whose history can easily be checked in its own right. - Jmabel | Talk 19:07, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I incline to "Alan" as I got his biography from the Oxford DNB/Dictionary of National Biography (online version) with Alan. And looking in the official English Microfiche Index (put out by ONS I think) as May Alan N. - Volume 6c page 375, in 2nd Quarter 1911. So 2 votes for "Alan" ?? Hugo999 (talk) 13:15, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Now merged (under "Alan"), all discussion is under Alan anyway Hugo999 (talk) 14:24, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Death statement?
Can we get a source for this:

"He died of pneumonia and pulmonary disease. A 2002 statement released after his death stated that he had no regrets about his spying activities."

Does this mean a statement written in 2002 and released in 2003 says this? 0x0077BE (talk) 07:19, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Slightly fictionalized recount of his case
In the March 9, 1952 episode of the radio program "WHitehall 1212", titled, "The Case of Dr. Duncan Allen" is based on Alan Nunn May, including his being paid with bottles of whiskey (in the program, he added ginger ale to the whiskey), other basics of the investigation, and his receiving 10 years in prison. At the time of this broadcast, he would have still be serving his sentence. Jtyroler (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:17, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

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