Talk:B. L. Burtt

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Requested move 7 January 2021 edit

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 23:12, 13 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Brian Burtt → B. L. Burtt – Per WP:COMMONNAME: Several obituaries use "B. L. Burtt" ([1], [2]) or his full name. Burtt appears to have published most often as B. L. Burtt (see Internet Archive papers and dominant names at VIAF and WorldCat), and was known to friends and close colleagues as "Bill", not Brian. Although he sometimes published as "Brian L. Burtt" early in his career, that appears to be a less common usage. Thus "Brian Burtt" seems too informal and off the mark, while "Bill Burtt" is overly familiar and "Brian Laurence Burtt" needlessly formal. However, "Brian Laurence Burtt" (the original title of this article), would be a realistic second choice, especially if needed for disambiguation purposes. --Animalparty! (talk) 00:07, 7 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Support per nomination and per numerous examples of such a general form at List of literary initials. Would likewise support, if consensus were to skew in that direction, restoration of the main title header delineating the full name, Brian Laurence Burtt. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 01:40, 7 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

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