Talk:Holst (surname)

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Amakuru in topic (name) or (surname)?

Requested move 9 November 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 21:11, 16 November 2018 (UTC)Reply


HolstHolst (name) – There are quite a few people listed on this page, but as far as I can tell Gustav Holst is the primary topic for this term, and the name should WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to his page. Certainly a Google search reveals results almost exclusively for Gustav.  — Amakuru (talk) 21:37, 9 November 2018 (UTC)Reply


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(name) or (surname)?

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I hate to bring this up after the above page move has been executed, but shouldn't the article title be Holst (surname)? A brief review and sampling of, for example Category:List-Class Anthroponymy articles indicates that, where a parenthetical qualifier is required for disambiguation, "(surname)" is used for articles, as here, where the name is exclusively used as a surname; "(given name)" is used for those articles where the entries are exclusively given names; and the unqualified "(name)" is used for those articles where the name is used both as a given name and surname. TJRC (talk) 01:56, 17 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Having participated in this discussion, I agree. It would seem that the move from Holst (name) to Holst (surname) should not engender any opposition and would be most likely accepted under WP:RM#Uncontroversial technical requests.    Roman Spinner (talkcontribs) 08:05, 17 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
I've gone ahead and made this move as it seems uncontroversial per the other examples. (I would argue that it should just be name per WP:CONCISE but this one shouldn't be a lone outlier). @Favonian: @AjaxSmack: @Necrothesp: as participants in the RM, feel free to revert if you disagree. Thanks  — Amakuru (talk) 08:33, 17 November 2018 (UTC)Reply