Talk:Name
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It seems like the names of persons section should be in a separate article, but Personal name is misleading, since the term is commonly a synonym for first name. Name of a person is graceless but accurate. Also, Arabic name etc should be something like Names of Arabic persons or some such, since they don't say anything about the naming of places or objects. Stan 07:32 31 May 2003 (UTC)
Posted by an anon user under Common and Scientific Names; not sure what they meant, as there is no such article. Elf | Talk 00:39, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I was wondering the Name density of everyone. Please go to that topic and edit it.
Elf | Talk 00:39, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Not only Iceland
In Russia (as well as at the very least Ukraine and Belarus) patronymics are used until this very day. A person has first name, patronimyc and than family name Beta m
Low quality?
"Behind the Name (http://www.behindthename.com/) etymology of names" has been removed under the pretence of being low quality website, but personally i have managed to find much more information on it than on Ancestry.com, and the information is actually internationalised not limited to United States, which is very important (you know there are other countries out there. I'll wait for a responce, and then restore the link if there will be no reason provided to back up why this was a "low quality website." User:Beta m/sig
- Since behindthename.com is for first names only, the link should only be in the Given name article (which does have the BTN link). The ancestry.com link covers both first and last names. It is unfortunate that name selection for ancestry.com is so American/British-centric, but the Oxford books they use for references do give some of the most complete and most accurate name etymologies that I have ever seen. Compare "Gregory", for example, where the ancestry.com information is the only place that I've ever seen that explains why the name was so popular with popes and saints (it's basically an ecclesiastical pun)—compare [1] (http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=gregory) with [2] (http://www.ancestry.com/search/surnamepage.aspx?ln=gregory&html=a&sourceCode=8972). What I most wanted to do was delete the babynamebox.com link, which has been spammed into practically every name-oriented article in the Wikipedia, and has very minimal definitions (plus eliminate the MSN "dress" in the ancestry.com link). If you really want to add the link back in, I will not get into a revert war, but I hope that you understand my reasoning. BlankVerse ∅ 05:21, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Point about given names taken, i won't put it back. I just found this link while searching for something else, and thought i'd add it to this article, not realising that it was already available in the one that is more appropriate. User:Beta m/sig