Talk:Elizabeth Parke Custis Law

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Added content about Thomas Law and inheritance issues, from sources in his article. Parkwells (talk) 17:52, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Renaming this article
This article used to be Eliza Parke Custis Law. It has been recently moved to Eliza Law with the edit summary of "(Make shorter (WP:CONCISE, WP:PRECISE): Name best known by)" but Eliza Law is not the name this person is best known by - see So, a couple of things:
 * Mount Vernon's Digital Library,
 * Encyclopedia Virginia,
 * National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian,
 * National Archives,
 * National Gallery of Art and
 * as "Eliza Parke Custis" or "Eliza Custis" in a 1901 edition of the magazine Records of the Columbia Historical Society in the article 'Thomas Law, Washington's First Rich Man' (JSTOR).
 * And, lastly, to call this person only by her first name & her married last name when she had actually divorced Thomas Law...
 * WP:CONCISE does not always apply to people, as the policy clearly states the following -
 * Exceptions exist for biographical articles. For example, given names and family names are usually not omitted or abbreviated for the purposes of concision. Thus Oprah Winfrey (not Oprah) and Jean-Paul Sartre (not J. P. Sartre).

I disagree with the renaming of this article and think it should retain its previous title of Eliza Parke Custis Law but let's see what the editorial consensus might be. Shearonink (talk) 06:18, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
 * WP:PRECISE does not mean Wikipedia truncates the names by which people have historically been known - Eliza's various relatives in the Custis line are historically known by their first middle last names, and often this is done especially in colonial and post-colonial Virginia research and history because the people kept on recycling names.