Talk:Shirley (novel)

Shirley as a feminine name
@GoatnamedWilliam With this edit, you remove the information that Shirley was a masculine name until the eponymous novel. Your explanation is “original research”. However, that is not applicable, since the information was cited. If you have a dispute, it should be about the reliability of the source. I think you are mistaken, since the source I provided is a scholarly society that has been around since 1951 and is dedicated to researching names. Just because the fact in dispute is not in the source you provide does not make it incorrect. As the source I provided states, Shirley began showing up as a boy’s name starting when some surnames began use as given names starting around 1700. No source I have found says it was ever a girl’s name until Brönte’s influence. Strebe (talk) 21:36, 9 June 2024 (UTC)