Talk:Edward Monson

This person didn't exist
I can find no evidence that an Edward Monson existed - certainly not a British diplomat.

All the material in the article (except perhaps the first line) referred to incidents in the career of Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet. Some sources, especially newspaper articles, mistakenly refer to him as Edward Monson - I found two newspaper articles that called him Edmund Monson in one paragraph and Edward Monson in the next! But authoritative sources, sucn as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Who's Who, the London Gazette, etc., make it clear that his name was Edmund.

For the time being I've left the content in the page, but topped it with a redirect to Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet.

Should this page be deleted?

Stanning (talk) 18:11, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

On second thoughts, I've replaced the redirect with a short explanatory page, so that anyone looking for Edward Monson will find something meaningful rather than an unexplained redirect. If there's ever a real Edward Monson who's notable enough for a Wikipedia page, I leave it to future editors to decide what to do!

Stanning (talk) 09:45, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Nooooooo! Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong! You NEVER have two articles on the same person for any reason EVER. A huge number of people are known by multiple names, even if some of those names are errors. So, you pick one name, and all the variations redirect - Calvin Broadus and Snoop Lion both redirect to Snoop Dogg, and those other names are mentioned on the article. So, I'm making this a redirect to Edmund, and tagging the redirect as a redirect from a misspelling, and I'll mention this error in the article. Ego White Tray (talk) 12:19, 4 October 2012 (UTC)