Talk:John D. Burgess

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Why has this been marked for speedy deletion? The article, even in its first incarnation, made the subject's importance perfectly clear - "one of the most eminent of Scots bagpipers".Quelcrime (talk) 13:16, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Renaming of article
I see this article has been renamed from "John Burgess (bagpiper)" to "John D. Burgess". I believe this is a mistake. I have never seen the subject referred to as "John D. Burgess". He is always called "John Burgess". Putting the middle initial into people's names as a matter of course is a North American habit which looks extremely odd in the case of a Scot who does not appear to have followed this practice. I don't believe anyone searching for an article on Burgess would search for "John D. Burgess", and given a list of article titles they most likely wouldn't pick this out as the article they were looking for. Under the circumstances I believe the article should be returned to its original title, which gives the subject's commonly used name, with a characteristic to distinguish him from others with the same name. "John Burgess (bagpiper)" is instantly identifiable. "John D. Burgess" is not.Quelcrime (talk) 19:50, 23 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I see it the other way - as far as I can tell, he is normally called John D. Burgess. For example in a Google search for "john burgess piper", every single result refers to him as John D. Burgess, and it is similar for pipe major john burgess. That is also the name of the 6/8 march named after him Ostrichyearning (talk) 23:29, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

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