Talk:John C. Iffert

Merge proposal

Both this article and John Iffert were created within minutes of each other today, this appears the better of the articles but the name of the other article is more appropriate, suggest merge JW 1961 ^Talk 19:23, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Copied material from the other page into this one Roberto221 (talk) 21:28, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

That the articles be merged seems uncontroversial - we can't have two articles about the same person. However, I suspect that the title of the article should be John Iffert, based on a little Googling. The Vatican's announcement uses the initial, but Googling "John Iffert" bishop yields about 700 news hits, whereas Googling "John C Iffert" bishop (with or without the period) yields 5. If you don't restrict it to news you get more hits for both, but it's still more than 3:1 in favour of 'John Iffert', and many of the hits with the initial are quoting the Vatican's announcement. MOS:INITIALS says that we should only use the initial if the name is commonly written that way: I'd suggest copying the current content of John C. Iffert, which is the superior article, to John Iffert, and redirecting this page to that title. Girth Summit _(blether) 09:08, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Girth Summit, Agreed, this looks like the right thing to do JW 1961 ^Talk 09:23, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

@Girth Summit:, @Joseywales1961: OK. Delete the other one and rename/move this one as John Iffert. Roberto221 (talk) 10:38, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Roberto221, I don't think the deletion/move would be valid, since some of the content here is attributed to the original article over there - that would break the attribution. I'm not sure a full history merge is warranted though, with so few edits to either page, so I've copy/pasted the text over there with attribution, and have redirected this page. Best Girth Summit _(blether) 14:41, 14 July 2021 (UTC)