User talk:Awomanforachange

Thompson
No one advocated changing the title of the page to Freddie Thompson - the title of the page was always to be Fred Thompson, just like Obama's page is Barack Obama and Romney's is Mitt Romney - the names they are known as, and would commonly be searched on. All we were talking about was the first line - the boldface rendition of the name which Wikipedia's style manual calls for to be the complete legal name. And when it is complicated by a person's original name being different from his or her commonly used name, but no evidence of legally having been changed, Wikipedia style calls for it to rendered as we render Tvoz | talk 21:02, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

January 2008
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