User talk:Philippesapiens

August 2020
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Mary Hallock-Greenewalt, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. '' Please see MOS:SURNAME: "After the initial mention, a person should generally be referred to by surname only." Also please note that some folks view the use of first name for women & last name for men to be a sexist practice.'' Peaceray (talk) 14:28, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

September 2020
My edition was cancelled under the motive it would be sexist to call a woman by her given name. I don't concord to this and find it more natural just as well to call a male by his given name the surname only, but fine, I can live with calling her also with her surname. However, using the surname of the male she married for the period before she married him is utterly both sexist and anachronistic, as she only starting using his surname to define herself after the marriage (I didn't search but I suppose she did follow this patriarchal usage). So I stand by my initial intention of giving her back her identity (the birth certificate does not say Greenwalt anywhere does it?), adjusting it by concatenating the surname to the given name, or saying she, while following the chronological rule, that is, she should be named Greenwalt only after her name change. As I saw another writer using Hallock-Greenwalt to name her later in the article I aligned to this, for after her marriage. Following blindly a rule the article ended up saying Greenwalt married Franck L. Greenwalt (what, he married himself?), while staying to the truth is that Mary Hallock married Franck Greenwalt (how does it go again? Mary Hollock do you take Franck Greenwalt to be your husband for better or for worse? Yes I do). I took the time to read the MOS reference you sent, that was useful, thanx. I mean it. The key remains to use common sense and good flowing writing above blind rules.