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Harthacnut (1020–1042) →
Harthacnut — This article was very recently at "Harthacnut", it was moved without discussion. It is true that there was also an earlier
Harthacnut I of Denmark, but he is a rather shadowy figure. This Harthacnut is clearly more important, a son of the famous Canute who tried to stop the waves, he succeeded to some of his father's territory and was king of England for a time. In my view, where we have only two people of a name, the margin does not need to be very great to decide that one of them is the primary meaning.
PatGallacher (
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17:52, 29 July 2010 (UTC)reply
The Danes could have a better idea than anybody else how to disambiguate them. On Danish Wikipedia, this person is plain "Hardeknud", the earlier person is "Hardeknud (Knud 1.)". This one also has articles on several more Wikipedias than the earlier, suggesting he is more important.
PatGallacher (
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00:27, 30 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose. I'd like to keep the
Harthacnut disambiguation page. But of course we can change the title to a variant, not the ones Surtsicna is proposing because this guy was king of Denmark far more time than king of England. --
Againme (
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18:39, 30 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Because I think it is better to keep dab pages whenever a single given name matches exactly two or more Ancient History characters. Even if about the first one we don't know if he existed for sure. --
Againme (
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11:28, 31 July 2010 (UTC)reply
That may be your view, but as Favonian and me have pointed out, this view is clearly contrary to the Wikipedia guidelines for primary topics.
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18:08, 31 July 2010 (UTC)reply
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How is
Poppa of Bayeux relevant to this article? Why does this chart present the fictional
Sigrid the Haughty as the subject's grandmother? Why does it present the fictional Gunhild as the subject's great-grandmother? Why do we even have a 5-generation chart that can list less than half of the 5-generation ancestors? Why are there no sources?
Surtsicna (
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19:57, 29 March 2019 (UTC)reply
The lack of sources is a general issue to many, many, MANY ancestry charts since these have been created oover a span of more than a decade, and many users hasn't at the time for the creations of these charts been sufficiently attentive to the possibility, that it could have been a god idea whith some source references. As to the great-grandmother of Harthacnut, the name Gunhild seems the least fictional name to mention, as it is noted by (admitted not always trustworthy)
Adam of Bremen, compared with the 3 other possibilities that either comes from various sagas (whith an impossible chronology in some cases), or comes from "wishfull thoughts", that the woman that erected the
Sønder Vissing Runestone should somehow be the mother of
Sweyn Forkbeard, even though this isn't mentioned anywhere. Why the chart presents
Sigrid the Haughty, I can't say for sure. It's not something I have added.
Oleryhlolsson (
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20:13, 29 March 2019 (UTC)reply
The claim that someone called Sigrid the Haughty is the subject's grandmother is indeed something you added. You added it three times today. The argument that the name Gunhild is the "least fictional name to mention" because it is noted by a "not always trustworthy" chronicler is really an argument against the inclusion of such claim. If the identity of the subject's father's father's mother is not clear enough to be properly presented in a chart, it should not be presented at all.
Surtsicna (
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20:22, 29 March 2019 (UTC)reply
I would probably say, that
Rollo is the 'important' person in this matter since showing the ancestry chart back to the great-great-grandparent it gets obvious, that Harthacnut has a Nordic decent on both the side of his fatther as well as of his mother.
Poppa of Bayeux was wife or mistress of Rollo, so it would seem odd not to mention her alongside with Rollo.
Oleryhlolsson (
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20:31, 29 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Harthacnut's descent from Rollo, if deemed relevant, can be easily noted in a single sentence. "Harthacnut was, on his mother's side, a great-great-grandson of
Rollo." It would be much more elegant and straightforward than a mangled, hidden template anyway. I don't see why we have to have 17 empty entries just to show Rollo.
Surtsicna (
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20:39, 29 March 2019 (UTC)reply
"Why do we even have a 5-generation chart that can list less than half of the 5-generation ancestors". As I see it, a "full" ancestry chart isn't a goal in itself. The ancestry charts for any given persons in this encyclopedia (or in any encyclopedia) is to show, what we know. What we don't know will obviously not be a part of the chart.
Oleryhlolsson (
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20:43, 29 March 2019 (UTC)reply
We are not discussing a full chart. We are nowhere near a full chart and we never will be in this case. We cannot even fill half of this chart, which makes it look absolutely ridiculous. What we do know about this person's ancestry can easily fit into one sentence. We do not need a mangled chart for it.
Surtsicna (
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20:49, 29 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Actually, if we should talk about the "artistic impression" of an ancestry chart I personally find it very intriguing with all these different shapes and forms we see from the incomplete ancestry charts. It somehow adds to the diversity of this encyclopedia.
Oleryhlolsson (
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20:53, 29 March 2019 (UTC)reply
The only thing it adds is unnecessary Wiki markup, making the article more difficult to read in page source form. (Besides, the artistic value of this chart is such that even those who add it make sure it is hidden away.) This chart does not do any good to the reader. If Harthacnut's descent from Rollo is what the reader is supposed to pick up from it, a simple sentence would do much better than a convoluted, collapsed template.
Surtsicna (
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21:16, 29 March 2019 (UTC)reply
I don't recall having ever seen a single biography of Harthacnut that thought his descended from Rollo (or Gorm for that matter) was particularly noteworthy. Almost all seem satisfied with his immediate ancestral context, his grandfathers and parents, but everybody else we show is rarely mentioned or not at all in the context of Harthacnut. They seem much more interested in his relationships with Harald I, Edward, Estrithson and the Dukes who were his contemporaries than any great-great-grandfather. As such, I would suggest that if a chart is to be used at all, a debatable proposition, it should be a Template:chart one and not an ahnentafel.
Agricolae (
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11:36, 1 April 2019 (UTC)reply