Template talk:Eastern name order

Proposal to use footnote instead of hatnote

I started a discussion here as I believe these types of templates would be less jarring if they appeared as a supplementary footnote rather than a "warning" above the lead. —Designate (talk) 18:57, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

“This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals”

This claim appears in a lot of articles about Japanese people, for instance, thanks to this template. But it’s not Wikipedia’s actual policy or practice to use Western name order for whole articles, right? No-one’s writing “Jinping Xi” just because he’s mentioned in an article about a Japanese person. Shinzo Abe’s article mentions “Xi Jinping”, and Yeonmi Park’s article mentions “Kim Jong Un”. Which makes sense, because Wikipedia is using the common name for each of these four people. But the two articles have this hatnote claiming that they’ll use Western name order. My vote is that this sentence should be removed from the template and possibly replaced with something along the lines of “This article uses Western name order for this individual”. Call apogee say aardvark (talk) 13:35, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Copied to Template talk:Western name order. Not sure how I ended up on a talk page for a redirect. Call apogee say aardvark (talk) 22:48, 7 February 2024 (UTC)