Graemeb1967

VC awardees article names

Hi, Wikipedia does not use honorary suffixes in the names of articles for people who have received awards and your recent changes have been reverted. Please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) for the relevant guidance. Nick-D (talk) 07:55, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi. I'm afraid I don't really understand what Nick's saying, so I'll give you my interpretation.

These are notable people, and their deeds should be acknowledged and honoured. I think everyone agrees with you on that point.

If you look at the contents of the articles you will see that the articles do this.

This is also done via a number of other means too. For example, List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients and Category:Australian Victoria Cross recipients

So, putting VC on the end of the article name isn't really helping much. If EVERY other article about a VC recipient contained VC in the article name, then there would be some point in so doing. In fact, the VC would already be there, and would have been there for some time.

If you take up Nick's suggestion and look at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people), you will quickly understand why the VC is NOT in the article name.

But thanks for the thought, and best wishes for your further enjoyment of wikipedia. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 10:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

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