Talk:Wout van Aert

Van or van
According to our articles on the matter, the convention in Belgium for surnames that include a Tussenvoegsel is that the prefix is always capitalised, by which principle this article should be at Wout Van Aert and all occurences of the surname should be Van Aert, which is not currently the case. Even if the name were Dutch, the usual practice would be to capitalise the prefix when the forename is not given, which is not happening here. Any comments before I move the article and make those changes in a couple of days? Kevin McE (talk) 17:40, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * No, I strongly oppose a move as what you've written is completely wrong. Names in Belgium wich include a prefix (like "de" or "van") are not uniformly written with a capital letter. It depends from family to family how it is written and the official form is the one as it is written in the official birth register managed by the state. With regard to WVA: the "van" in his name is in his family's case not written with a capital V. Thus it would only be capitalized when it's the first word of a sentence as in "Van Aert won one cycling monument: Milan-San Remo." as opposed to:"Wout van Aert won one cycling monument: Milan-San Remo.-- fdewaele, 2 February 2023, 19:36.
 * No need to be so rude in your answer. There is nothing wrong in what I have written, as all I have asserted is the content of an article.  Perhaps you could bring your expertise to the Tussenvoegsel and Van (Dutch) articles. Kevin McE (talk) 22:06, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Rivalry with Van der Poel
The Netflix doc hardly warrants a paragraph in this article. Wout's rivalry with Mathieu is much more notable. It has been covered in mainstream cycling media: | Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert: The anatomy of a rivalry Oskkar (talk) 19:14, 6 August 2023 (UTC)