Talk:Necronym

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2008 comment
Is "commemorating it incessantly" appropriate language for this article? It doesn't sound very NPOV to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.177.148.254 (talk) 19:06, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

I removed that sentence:
"In Italian culture, it is common to name a child the same name as an older sibling that has died in infancy, sometimes more than once if two or more children in a row die in infancy." It lacks citations and, as far as I know (I am Italian) it lacks any foundation, too. It possibly may have been true in the past, but now it's unheard of, and even in the past I don't think it was "common" nor more common than in other countries/cultures. --213.156.52.126 (talk) 16:54, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * My family tree includes several large Pennsylvania German farm families in which there were two or three children with the same name... I don't remember if it was just my suspicion, or if I was able to document, that the first such-named children had died before the latter ones were born. [user:PurpleChez|PurpleChez] 9/10/14 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.249.207.195 (talk) 19:42, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Use of the word Necronym in Art
H.L. Hix's poem "No Less Than Twenty-Six Distinct Necronyms" catalogs a variety of necronyms. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.244.32.7 (talk) 16:55, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Uncertain
The article seems a little uncertain. Is a necronym a posthumous name or a namesake? It starts out by defining it as the former, but some examples resemble the latter. Can anybody clarify? Boneyard90 (talk) 09:23, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

More Sources
Here is a list of sources I've added to the article.


 * https://online.ucpress.edu/representations/article/doi/10.2307/2902933/82580/The-Necronym
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24906067.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A865e3f094b2a7f3983d4a32b38a22d31
 * https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=osu1486474078049095&disposition=inline
 * https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13576275.2020.1807923
 * https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2013/02/28/john-hunter-nemechek-15-carries-family-tradition/
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/4199959
 * https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=b2rCLYHjDMgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=forbidden+from+using+the+name+of+deceased+relative&ots=Wx-IfIDe8u&sig=SGI-ySa9ZHYEhNh-q0cCyxilu7M#v=snippet&q=deceased&f=false
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778787
 * http://www.independent.co.uk/news/at-last-the-truth-emerges-about-gordon-lonsdales-shadowy-life-1171736.html
 * Soviet Spy Ring
 * https://grg.org/calmentmen1.html
 * https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2020.1807923
 * https://believermag.com/whats-in-a-necronym/

Lingedit717 (talk) 03:23, 11 October 2020 (UTC)