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WP:SNOWBALL close in favor of merge. Merging in
Gruffydd→
Gruffudd direction, as the more-supported option, though there is consensus that it should not make much if any difference, and there was no staunch opposition to reversing the direction. It may be best to keep Gruffudd as the title since the spelling is both older, and has become prominent again. Some scholars prefer the y spelling, but Google Books results showing it the favorite in scholarship includes many older works; it's uncertain if there's a clear preference in modern sources. —
SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 15:32, 6 August 2016 (UTC) –
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As the original merge suggestion attracted no salient comments here and only two at the other page, with a 50/50 split, I'm opening an RfC, and suggesting a merge in the other direction, to the better-developed page. The Gruffudd spelling appears to be more common today, is more familiar to more readers because of
Ioan Gruffudd, and produces significantly more Google hits. We definitely do not need a bunch of
WP:REDUNDANTFORKs on every possible spelling of this name (or any name), especially when most of it's just disambiguation "un-content" instead of real content, spelling varies widely even for the same historical subjects, there are many more such variants, and none of them are likely possible to develop into a real and properly sourced article on the name without combining them. —
SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 22:32, 10 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Pinging previous commenters – @
LlywelynII,
AjaxSmack, and
Daicaregos: I am not opposed to a merge the other direction at all, just supporting a merge. What appears to have come out of the previous discussion is that the Gruffydd spelling is more common among the general populace (either that or some authors by that name were unusually prolific, skewing bilbio database results), but that more notables use / have used the Gruffudd spelling, while scholars referring to them are not consistent, even within the same work, and sometimes even with regard to the same personage (and also use other variants like Gruffuth). —
SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 21:09, 13 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Support: Thanks for the ping. I would much prefer a merge from Gruffydd to Gruffudd. Although both versions of the name are used, Gruffudd is by far the most frequently used spelling in modern times. Where used as a forename, Gruffydd seems to be an infrequent variant of Gruffudd, rather than vice versa. Of the Gruffudd/Gruffydd-es indexed in John Davies' A History of Wales, 19 are Gruffudd and 3 Gruffydd, two of which are surnames.
Daicaregos (
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10:35, 15 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Support merging the other way, per my original results, the other posters' results at
Talk:Gruffydd which found it about 3:1 Gruffydd:Gruffudd, and per Google Scholar which returns
10k+ for Gruffydd to
~3k for Gruffudd. Yes, the important thing is a merge, but it shouldn't go the wrong way based on cursory googling, when vanilla Google "results" are completely useless. They are quite clear that they don't see the point in wasting computing power to come up with an accurate figure. —
LlywelynII14:39, 15 July 2016 (UTC)reply
SNOW support for a merge, with no particular recommendation on which namespace to utilize for the merged article. Frankly, it strikes me as an editorially insignificant matter--and bear in mind I say this despite having a formal background in historical/comparative linguistics; I can see all kinds of potential relevance to even such a small difference as y->u, but nothing which seems to at all relevant to our organizational considerations for the encyclopedia, certainly not at a level that would make either option unworkable or worth arguing over. Especially as the ultimate function of the page will be as a simple disambig--we don't as a general rule, have articles on given names beyond that role, and I can't see how this would ever become an exception. So since this is a functionary, rather than content, page, with convergent redirects, everyone is going to end up at the same place, looking at the same list and I doubt very much that the difference between one letter will ever matter to the purposes of even a single one of our readers, if it is even noticed to begin. Honestly, having a strong opinion in favour of one option over the other is, in this instance, pretty solid evidence of missing the forest for the trees.
Snowlet's rap02:01, 23 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Merge either way; as long as both spellings are on the disambig page, and one is a redirect, it hardly matters which one is used for the title.
Dicklyon (
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04:33, 1 August 2016 (UTC)reply
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Most of the content of three sections of
Griffith (name), "Evolution and history", "Variants", and "Hypocoristic forms", really pertain to Gruffudd/Gruffydd, and should merge into this article, as they pre-date the existence of the Anglicisation Griffith[s]. All that need be left behind at
Griffith (name) of this material is a summary, and any material pertaining explicitly to the late, Anglicised variant (e.g. "Griff" has a hypocorism). —
SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 10:31, 7 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Well, at this point it's also basically a stub article on the name and its variants, history, etc. Hndis pages have a tendency to evolve in that direction. What we don't need is REDUNDANTFORK content at each derived variant, but have that material centralised in one article, cross-referenced at the articles on the derived names. —
SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 01:57, 8 August 2016 (UTC)reply