User talk:Luscus1940

I am curious to know why so many contributors to the Wikipedia entry on Mr Lockwood, notionally the narrator and transcriber of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, are anxious to attribute to the unfortunate gentleman, who patently made a serious error of judgement in selecting the wild and windy Yorkshire moors for his petulant retreat from fashionable society, the first name of Britain's most famous admiral, victor at the Battle of Trafalgar. To the very best of my knowledge the book at no point gives the young gentleman a first name, perhaps as an analogy with his landlord, Heathcliff, who appears never to have acquired a surname. Perhaps rashly - I had after all only scoured two editions of the Heights without finding the name Nelson - I ventured to remove the redundant name. I now find myself fighting a running battle with Wikipedia contributors, mostly for some reason apparently resident in the USA, who insist on reinstating the first name. I am reluctant to designate such behaviour as " Vandalism ", as the Vandals were resposible for far more serious breaches of sociability, but I remain convinced that in the interests of accuracy Ms. Bronte's fictional character should be designated as Mr Lockwood tout court.

That is unless there are editions of the book of which I am unaware in which he acquires the splendid Nelson. I rather doubt it.

There is already one deluded, if entertaining, contributor to Facebook who rejoices in the tag Nelson_Lockwood. I am guessing he picked the name up from Wikipedia and I would be sorry to disappoint him, but the truth must win the day.

Luscus1940 (talk) 10:08, 6 May 2015 (UTC)