Awomanforachange

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Thompson

No one advocated changing the title of the page to Freddie Thompson - the title of the page was always to be Fred Thompson, just like Obama's page is Barack Obama and Romney's is Mitt Romney - the names they are known as, and would commonly be searched on. All we were talking about was the first line - the boldface rendition of the name which Wikipedia's style manual calls for to be the complete legal name. And when it is complicated by a person's original name being different from his or her commonly used name, but no evidence of legally having been changed, Wikipedia style calls for it to rendered as we render [[John Edwards]' name in the first sentence: Johnny Reid ("John") Edwards. All we were trying to do is render the Thompson name consistent with encyclopedia style which would be Freddie Dalton ("Fred") Thompson. Barack Obama's full name is indeed the bold first mention, as is Hillary Rodham Clinton's, and the others. See my talk page for a couple of replies to your note. As for being a celebrity - hardly. Tvoz |talk 21:02, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

January 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Gadsden flag. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Your edit summary indicated that the link was removed because it was a link to a "conservative institution." That's not a valid reason for removal. It appeared to me that the link was at least relevant to the article and not a spamlink. Such changes should be discussed on the talk page. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 13:00, 28 January 2008 (UTC)