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I cannot see any source that says that a legal name change occured. It is normal to write J-B. with one dot since Jean-Baptiste is a single name. Mathematical programming study: Volumes 16-18 1982 has Roger JB. Wets University of Kentucky ...
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16:08, 12 March 2012 (UTC)reply
Where do you have evidence that his birth name is Jean-Baptiste?
Why are you speculating about his middle name abbreviating anything?
If you were a random editor and this were a random article, a researcher would be entitled to wonder about obsessive-compulsive behavior, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Aspberger's syndrome, etc. Since you are not random editors and this is not a random article, would you explain your interest in Wets's middle name?
I reverted the stupid edits, after reading that Wets was a "programmer". It is only a matter of time before another "editor" fatuously proposes moving this page to "Roger J.-B. West", because they know that "West" must be the real name. Kiefer.
Wolfowitz22:04, 12 March 2012 (UTC)reply
Time for either a source or an RM
I'll ignore the personal stuff above. This article was cited in Talk on an unrelated RM
P J Crook as a reason for not following WP guidelines there. It inevitable invites those Talking there to visit here and inspect, and what was found was no WP:RS for (1) the assertion that J-B without the dot (how does someone legally remove a dot in a legal name change), and (2) argument from WP policy as to why even if someone had legally changed their middle name from e.g. Roger J-B. Wets to Roger J-B Wets (with no dot) why Wikipedia should follow this for a mathematician when we don't for rock stars.
You indulged in OR when you cited an old bibliographical entry to synthesize OR about "J-B." being his former legal middle-name. (The usual heuristic is that most articles have half of their entries with bibliographical errors, so your OR was especially risky.)
All the (on-line) documents awarding the most prestigious prizes in optimization (Dantzig) and OR (Lanchester) use "J-B", as do his cv, short autobiography, and web page. Michael Todd's refereed writings are more reliable than your cogitations, so please stop speculating about a living person.
"Mathematical optimization" is not only a mathematical topic, but a recognized specialty within several professions, an international society, and less formal associations and communities. The phrase "In mathematical optimization" did not claim that he was a topic in MSC2010#90.
Your English grammar is below your (usually good) standard here, so I have trouble understanding your intent. You may have made additional mistakes, which I haven't been able to address. Kiefer.
Wolfowitz13:13, 13 March 2012 (UTC)reply