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Surname template

There is a TfD discussion here: Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2022_April_28#Template:Lambrecht-surname (the template has been renamed during the discussion and is now {{Lambert-surname}}. It has some similarities to the templates for forenames discussed at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2022_April_11#Template:Anthony and Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2022_March_30#Template:Charles. PamD 16:51, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

• Update {{Lambert-surname}} (renamed mid-AfD) has been deleted. There are about 50 similar unsourced, unreliable, cluttering, navbox templates produced by the same editor which I intend to propose for deletion. Any thoughts? PamD 08:51, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

  I have no objections.—Bagumba (talk) 09:02, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

TfD discussion

Members of this project may be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2022_May_6#Surname_navbox_templates where six templates have been nominated for deletion. PamD 15:53, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

More at TfD

Following the deletion of six templates, another 30 have now been nominated for deletion: see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 May 17#Surname navbox templates, continued. PamD 13:28, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

And the last of the forename-related surname navboxes are now at TfD

See Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2022_May_24#Surname_navbox_templates,_part_three for the final batch. Now I'll have a look at some of the other categories of unhelpful surname navbox templates. PamD 20:56, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

RfC at Vladimir (name)

Should the "Presidents and prime ministers" section have removed from it the lists of military campaigns as “one of the principal commanders” against each name? Comment here. DeCausa (talk) 08:42, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Organization of Reed (name)

Is there any reason why the list of names at Reed (name) has information in the opposite order from virtually every other list of names in Wikipedia?

A typical snippet from the page looks like this:

• United States (1910–2014) H. Owen Reed
• England (1914–1986) Henry Reed (poet)
• Chile (1915–1958) Enrique Reed
• United States (1916–2000) Janet Reed
• United States (1916–2001) Walter Reed (actor)
• United States (1916–2002) Ola Belle Reed
• England (1916–2010) John Reed (actor)
• United States (1917–2007) Stanley Foster Reed
• Ireland (1919–1974) Maxwell Reed
• United States (1919–2015) Paul Reed (artist)

BD2412 T 15:21, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

• @BD2412: Let's ask @Ceyockey:, who reorganised it into that now-unusual format in 2008 after copying a more standardly-arranged list from Reed. PamD 18:23, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Seems we should follow the present-day standards. —Bagumba (talk) 06:05, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

I have taken a reasonable shot at reversing the order back to the standard. Cheers! BD2412 T 23:43, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Brayan

General question as to if anyone has insight about the given name Brayan? I ask because I recently populated the page Brayan with notable people who have that given name, by doing a search using the look from template. Oddly (to me), every person with that given name who has an article on Wikipedia is a sports figure. They are predominantly footballers (soccer players), plus a few other sports, but there is not a single example of a non-sports figure out of the 40 or so biographical articles. It also looks to be a relatively "new" name, as all of those people were born in the 1980s or later. Seems unusual, so thought I'd ask. Dmoore5556 (talk) 05:45, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Fok (surname)#Requested move 10 July 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Fok (surname)#Requested move 10 July 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vpab15 (talk) 18:35, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Diego, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 August 2022 (UTC) on behalf of the AFI team

McFoo and MacFoo surnames

I have just nominated McLachlan and MacLachlan to be merged, and I think this should generally be the practice with relatively short entries for McFoo and MacFoo names, since they will otherwise share a common history and pronunciation. BD2412 T 23:49, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

RFC on disambig and surname pages

Please state your opinion in Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Surname pages are disambiguation pages or not?.Yossi Rimon (talk) 19:02, 1 September 2022 (UTC)