[Family] I can't believe this came up while writing my Yuletide letter
Especially as the context is Chuck Tingle, BUT...
Does my pedantic self want to actually edit my great-great grandfather's Wikipedia entry? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sturges_Jackson)
I mean, I have no desire to actually add more crap about his career and flesh out the stub, but STURGES WAS HIS MIDDLE NAME. NOT PART OF HIS LAST NAME. STOP REFERRING TO HIM AS STURGES JACKSON, OKAY?
OMG, it makes me so twitchy. Like, dude, his son, who has a full Wikipedia entry because WWI, is clearly just Jackson (also Thomas--there was a line of at least seven of them in a row). His use of his full name, including the Sturges, was probably done to disambiguate him from his father (also as well too Thomas, full entry, not a stub) and grandfather (no Wikipedia entry, I think, and yes, a Thomas, like his father before him--I mentioned the seven in a row?).
"Sturges Jackson was blah blah blah." NO
"Jackson was blah blah blah." YES
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Does my pedantic self want to actually edit my great-great grandfather's Wikipedia entry? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sturges_Jackson)
I mean, I have no desire to actually add more crap about his career and flesh out the stub, but STURGES WAS HIS MIDDLE NAME. NOT PART OF HIS LAST NAME. STOP REFERRING TO HIM AS STURGES JACKSON, OKAY?
OMG, it makes me so twitchy. Like, dude, his son, who has a full Wikipedia entry because WWI, is clearly just Jackson (also Thomas--there was a line of at least seven of them in a row). His use of his full name, including the Sturges, was probably done to disambiguate him from his father (also as well too Thomas, full entry, not a stub) and grandfather (no Wikipedia entry, I think, and yes, a Thomas, like his father before him--I mentioned the seven in a row?).
"Sturges Jackson was blah blah blah." NO
"Jackson was blah blah blah." YES
Crossposted from http://minim-calibre.dreamwidth.org/811371.html. Should it tickle your fancy, you can comment there using OpenID. Comments there: