Talk:John Joshua Kirby

This person's name is not John Joshua Kirby
The title of this article John Joshua Kirby is a misnomer. The artist never referred to himself in this way, being always 'Joshua Kirby', and so he appears in his prints and publications, in contemporary obituaries, and in writings referring to him in his own time. The mistake of calling him 'John Joshua' has arisen through some elision of the artist with his father John Kirby (topographer), author of The Suffolk Traveller. This is amended in the ODNB entry for Joshua Kirby, from the incorrect form in George Goodwin's 1892 article for the original DNB, but news of it has not yet reached Wikipedia. However the mistake, wherever it originated, has become a widespread one, and it is therefore likely that readers may search for the artist under this name. Therefore it would be best to redirect this page to an article titled 'Joshua Kirby', leaving the present title for a re-direction to it, and to introduce an explanation of the fact in a footnote to the article's text. References to support this distinction would then be brought in. If no-one objects, that's what I will do. Eebahgum (talk) 13:11, 25 April 2015 (UTC)