Talk:Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky

Patronymic in title
I note that User:Voceditenore in this edit said the spelling was the one most commonly found in sources. I agree, but that was about the spelling of the surname. It had nothing to do with whether he's generally referred to in the anglosphere as "Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky" or simply as "Fyodor Komissarzhevsky". It is, of course, the latter.


 * We should not be using patronymics in titles of Russian people's articles, unless they're generally referred to by their full name, which is rare. The only case that comes to mind is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.  Compare this with Vladimir Lenin, Leonid Brezhnev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexander Pushkin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Mendeleev, Innokenty Smoktunovsky and thousands of others - no patronymics.


 * I'd like to see this moved to Fyodor Komissarzhevsky, but it needs an admin. --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  10:59, 16 April 2011 (UTC)