User talk:Dearagon

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Naming conventions
Hi, Dearagon! The naming conventions I am referring to to are here. The usual standard is not to use their maiden names, but if she is known by her maiden name (like Barbara Streisand is), the article should be moved back. I was moving all articles from Category:English countesses to match the naming conventions and also to match large number of other articles. However, if the name is against contemporary usage, it should be moved back. Surtsicna (talk) 09:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it was against the usage of the twelfth century in England, for at least half of the women I have studied (and that's 55 widowed countesses). She was her father's heir, hence the identification with the lands that were associated with his name. Some women did take their husbands' surnames, if they had surnames to take. This was a time when naming practices were still fluid for both males and females. DeAragon 06:32, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Nicola de la Haye
I'm contacting you because you seem to have made a significant contribution to this article. I'm a little confused as to what name to use for the article. Currently the article name is Nicola de la Haye, while (your) text uses Nicholaa de la Haye, as does the BBC. Meanwhile, the Dictionary of National Biography has (under Gerard de Camville) the form Nicholaa de Haia. Would you recommend changing the name of the article to Nicholaa de la Haye? Jan 1 naD (talk • contrib) 15:28, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Nicholaa seems to accord with the original sources. I have consulted the charters of Nicholaa and the double A appears in at least one original charter in the British Library. "Nicolaa" is the way her name was spelled by the scribe, so the ch vs c issue is probably a matter of choice.

Hedingham Castle
Please see Talk:Hedingham Castle -- PBS (talk) 09:45, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback deployment
Hey Dearagon; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:27, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Swaffham
Hi Dearagon, An edit you did for Swaffham in 2008 appears to refer to Swaffham Bulbeck in Cambridgeshire not Swaffham, Norfolk. See I have delete your edit in good faith. Regards --palmiped | Talk  21:36, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Autopatrolled
Hey, Dearagon :). Just a note that I have given you the "autopatrolled" user right to signify your excellence in content creation. Keep up the good work! Ironholds (talk) 22:56, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

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That was left over from what another editor had written. I didn't remove it because I thought it linked to a page on another web site that contained genuine information on William d'Aubigny. As it does not, I'll change that. Thanks for the heads up.

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Deletion of
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