Talk:Blago

? (Del, Rdr, Dab)
A dozen or so edits (3 of them deleted at once) have been devoted to this title. Perhaps a modicum of research will suffice to finally put the matter to bed: For all those reasons, primary-topic dab'n is more reasonable than "equal" dab'n, but a non-distracting & unobtrusive Rdr is better. If anyone prefers some form of Dab'n over my reversion to the original Rdr, i find it hard to imagine my having anything further to say. --Jerzy•t 05:18, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Blago Zadro has existed 55 months without anyone worrying about whether even Zadro (his Croatian surname, not a Hungarian given name) would be used in an attempt to reach the war hero's bio. (I just started the surname page w/ 2 entries, FWIW.)
 * 2) The apparent sole occasion for making a Dab of the original Rdr was responding to an otherwise undiscussed DB request.
 * 3) That DB request's suggestion of "improbable typo" is demonstrably false -- Chicago Sun-Times (don't know its circ, but it just got a Pulitzer) seems to have used it about 370 times on its edited pages (at least, but certainly not mostly, by linking there to its own Blago Blog -- which appeared on a domain outside the range of that search).
 * 4) The DB requester's alternate suggestion -- "and / or slander" (uh, slander requires falsehood, for the record; they mean "ridicule") -- might be a defensible reason for not having "Blago" appear in the lead of the article, but is not a valid objection to its existence as a title (or as a Dab entry), where it is seen only by the user who types in "blago", either
 * 5) looking for RB (bcz they apply "Blago" to him), or
 * 6) -- far-fetchedly -- having no interest in RB but unable to recall or spell the surname "Zadro", or
 * 7) thinking of naming their kid Blago (in which case they may really welcome the alert that some people may consider it a taunt!).
 * 8) The DB requester seems not to have considered the greater likelihood of those naive to Serbo-Croatian orthography and having typed Blagoyowitz, Blaghojavec, and a half dozen other permutations, trying blago in desperation.
 * 9) (Well, going on beyond a "modicum": it's not easy to exclude hits that are too new!) This 2002 abstract from Crain's Chicago Business strongly suggests that it is a long-standing and pretty neutral nickname; it's plausible he considered it a man-of-the-people touch that furthered his political ambitions.

--Jerzy•t 05:48, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * (The human imagination is such a poor tool: here's one more thing to say after all.) All of those Slavic -witzes and -viches etc are just like -son in Johnson and -sen in Jensen, and Blago is a given name (whether Serbian or Croatian). So addressing someone named "Blagojevich" as "Blago" is like addressing Douglas Peterson as "Pete", not like addressing George Schmeltzer as "Schmel".