Talk:Aleksandr Nikitenko

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The general heading spells his name "Aleksandr" and the first sentence says "Alexander". Which is it? BBHI (talk) 10:38, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of this discussion was to Merge to the older version and retain the shorter name. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:47, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Eugenek1 and Robert McClenon: I don't read Russian and so cannot be very helpful in this proposed merge, but I believe Alexander Vasilievich Nikitenko and Alexander Nikitenko are the same person. Because the latter is the older article, any information about the subject should end up at the Alexander Nikitenko title, I believe. Vycl1994 (talk) 17:59, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

User:Vycl1994, User:Eugenek1 - They are clearly the same person. As to titles and articles, it is the rule to merge into the older article. However, the title of the more recent article should be the primary title, because the form of the name with the patronymic is the more complete form of his name. (We might as well give him the full form of his name as a Russian gentleman, since he wasn't born a gentleman and earned all of his distinctions.) Robert McClenon (talk) 18:59, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Eugenek1 and Robert McClenon: If Nikitenko's common name and full name are one and the same, the following points will be irrelevant, but why choose an official name over a more concise common name? Additionally, his status and former lack thereof are largely beside the point, per the manual of style guidelines on honorifics and credentials, are they not? Though it seems part of the Russian Wikipedia's manual of style to title articles with a full name in defaultsort order, every English wikilink on this page that leads to another biography is titled Forename Surname. (Well, Alexander II of Russia is an exception, but still follows guidelines on honorifics and the naming conventions on royalty). Vycl1994 (talk) 22:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Robert McClenon, you are mistaken. The patronimic should be removed from the title as per WP:RUS. Wikipedia does not have a policy of using "the most complete form of the name" in the title. Try renaming Michelangelo to Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni if you have any doubts. --Ghirla^-трёп- 11:13, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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