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We should be avoiding 're-directs' & 'pipe-links' that promote the gaelic version of Malcolm III of Scotland & Malcolm IV of Scotland, as those linked articles are currently in 'english' version. GoodDay ( talk) 18:33, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to find reliable sources to verify the contents of the article Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Leiningen and am coming up blank. Can anyone here help? Thanks J04n( talk page) 22:42, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
I userfied an article for this new editor a couple weeks ago. The user has made some improvements to it, but I know nothing about the topic and am unable to determine if it's suitable for the mainspace (it does still need some work with citations). If anyone has interest in this topic, please take a look at the article User:Italian-royalty/Nobility in Sicily. Thanks! P. D. Cook Talk to me! 22:46, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Per Austrian nobility#Abolition of nobility in 1919, all title of nobility in Austria were abolished in 1919. Most people who used "von" as part of their name dropped it. We still refer to " Ludwig von Mises" because he presumably re-added the "von" after he left Austria in 1934 and it's how he's commonly known. He had also inherited the title Edler. What's the appropriate way of using the title in the biography? Should we use it as if the title had not been abolished? Or say he was a "former Edler"? It is a not a common part of his name. Will Beback talk 01:15, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Could anyone tell me how your project generally deals with translations in a "Royal styles" infobox like the one at Princess_Maria_Amélia_of_Brazil#Titles and honors? Do you list "Senhora" or "Ma'am" or both or neither? - Dank ( push to talk) 19:27, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heir to the Ottoman dynasty, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prince Odysseas-Kimon of Greece and Denmark and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Princess Desirée of Schaumburg-Lippe. - dwc lr ( talk) 23:56, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
A new nominated article Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark. - dwc lr ( talk) 12:56, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prince Aristidis-Stavros of Greece and Denmark - dwc lr ( talk) 19:27, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece and Denmark - dwc lr ( talk) 21:42, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
A discussion at Talk:List of Irish queens and consorts has prompted me to open a deletion discussion for these types of articles, most of which are the work of User:Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy. Contributions would be welcome. Opera hat ( talk) 13:40, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion in progress at Talk:Tudor dynasty about moving Tudor dynasty to House of Tudor for those who wish to comment. OCNative ( talk) 14:52, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Having trouble getting this article from unsourced to having at least one reliable source. Any assistance greatly appreciated. -- joe decker talk to me 23:29, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
A discussion which could have wide ranging repercussions for how non reigning royals are titled is taking place at Talk:Archduke Karl of Austria#Requested move. The relevant naming guidelines for this article are WP:NCROY - dwc lr ( talk) 21:43, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Guidelines need revamping. Those who weren't born royal, shouldn't have royal titles in their article name. GoodDay ( talk) 21:47, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
How many articles' subjects are notable only for being dynasts or nobles of ex-monarchies? To title such articles by their "plain" names would be like using Samuel Clemens. — Tamfang ( talk) 17:59, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
In a discussion at the BLP noticeboard I put forward an argument that we should try to avoid the term 'pretender' as being misleading for general audiences. It is a term of art for those who study royalty, but can be seen as a BLP violation for living people, and as simply confusing if applied to lots of long-since dead people. The term 'pretender' is easily replaced by more precise terms to cover different kinds of cases.
Advice at the BLP noticeboard on the particular cases they are worried about will surely be appreciated, as will discussion here.-- Jimbo Wales ( talk) 11:13, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
There is a bizarre battle going on along the following lines:
Maybe someone with a lot of patience and with the necessary background knowledge want to sort this out and make the necessary WP:SPI reports against both sides? Hans Adler 12:37, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
The Wulfrida article states she was Queen of Wessex, as wife of Æthelred of Wessex. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wulfrida states "No verifiable evidence that Wulfrida existed." I assume users from this project may wish to comment one way or another on this deletion. OCNative ( talk) 07:06, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
I'm pleased to inform you that I've created some "stub" on royal/imperial houses which are not present on en.wikipedia, neither in other wikipedia languages, only in it.wikipedia, are the following: Massimo Osmani Emanuele Gioeni Pilo Acuña Antiochia Valencia. Unfortunaly i'm unable to traslate it. Many thanks. Seics ( talk) 13:48, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
There are some concerns regarding that. Only two people have been significantly involved in the discussion. I believe your opinion will be very helpful to WT:Tambayan Philippines#Sulu Sultanate, Talk:Muedzul Lail Tan Kiram and User talk:RDAndrew. Naming convention seems to be the primary conflict. Moray An Par ( talk) 01:18, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil is now a featured article nominee. Anyone willing to review the article and share thoughts is welcome. -- Lecen ( talk) 12:20, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
A Request for Comment has been made in Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies. See here. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, -- Lecen ( talk) 22:06, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Readers of this page may be interested in contributing to the discussion at Talk:Eveline Hańska#Requested move. Cheers. - GTBacchus( talk) 00:23, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
I guess we forgot to notify you guys here pls see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2011 royal tour of Canada. Moxy ( talk) 00:27, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
There is a dicussion of this man's status as King and his article title at Talk:Svein, King of Norway. If interested please join in the discussion.-- Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy ( talk) 04:53, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Readers of this page may be interested in contributing to the discussion at Talk:Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou#Requested move: Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou --> Louis Alphonse de Bourbon. Cheers. - GTBacchus( talk) 21:54, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Readers here may be interested in contributing to the discussion at Talk:List of Dukes of Saxony#move. Cheers. - GTBacchus( talk) 23:54, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Could anyone shed some light on the question I raised on this article's talk page? It concerns the daughters and who they married. Thanks. -- Auntof6 ( talk) 03:44, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Line of succession to the French throne (Legitimist) - I don't understand articles like this. I fear that they are absurd original research which then branches out to poison other articles with their absurdity. "He is recognised by those French monarchists who consider Philip V of Spain's renunciation of his rights of succession to the throne of France both on his succession and as part of the provisions of the Treaty of Utrecht as null and void." Who? Who are these French monarchists? If they are not serious people, i.e. a handful of crackpots, then the entire article should be deleted.
There are virtually no sources for the article, and one has to wonder if there is any legitimacy at all to the huge list of people allegedly in line to succeed to the French throne.-- Jimbo Wales ( talk) 01:46, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
The proposed renaming being discussed at Talk:Wilhelm II, German Emperor#Requested move: To "Kaiser Wilhelm II" may be of interest to members of WikiProject Royalty and Nobility. Favonian ( talk) 22:18, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
For a number of members of the Ottoman Imperial Family all listed under one proposal here. And also Greek Royals Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, her brother Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark and his wife Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark. - dwc lr ( talk) 01:19, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Members of this project may have an interest in this thread: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Self-published royalty websites. The two websites are used as sources for many project articles. Will Beback talk 00:40, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
The proposed renaming being discussed at Talk:Sigurd I of Norway#Requested move may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Favonian ( talk) 09:33, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Can you guys give a look please? I rewrote it, since I had found some factual errors (anachronism of details mainly), but I feel some details would be better to go to other articles (several people were involved, as usual). Also I'd love to hear your opinion, if Princess Ikami and/or Prince Osabe (his empress later expelled and his first crown prince, see the article please) deserve their own articles, beyond notes on this article? -- Aphaia ( talk) 01:24, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
There's an orphan article here which I've just PRODded. Anyone interested in Italian nobility might like to rescue it. At present it doesn't make much sense. Pam D 14:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Readers of this page may be interested in the move request at Talk:House_of_Stewart#Move_the_article_back. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 14:52, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Lots of news today as David Cameron announced unanimous agreement among the 16 realms to change the rules of succession. Presumably Succession to the British throne needs updating.-- Jimbo Wales ( talk) 11:09, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Changes to the settlement act don't come swifty. The announcement is one thing, but there's not much to it at the moment since no amendments have been proposed. Nightw 13:20, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Changes would apply to children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - even if they were born before a law change. It would mean, if the couple had a first-born daughter, she could become Queen. The change would not, however, apply to previous generations, so Princess Anne would not leapfrog her younger brothers Andrew and Edward to become fourth in line to the throne.
Perhaps that article should be merged into Ferdinand of Romania. -- GoodDay ( talk) 07:41, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm just here to advise of a standardised succession table I've recently created. See {{ Succession table monarch}} for more info. Hope it comes in handy. Claret Ash 13:00, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
I've requested that this article be merged into Edward VII. Prince Alexander lived for only 1-day. GoodDay ( talk) 23:27, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
I nominated Princess Alexandra of Greece for deletion. There have been several redirect !votes and one weak keep, all of which don't make much sense to me. An admin who appears to see this similarly has just relisted the AfD for a second time. Hans Adler 08:59, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
There is debate at Talk:Miguel, Crown Prince of Portugal about the reliability of sources, etc.
If any members of this project have knowledge about Portuguese 14th Century history, your input would be much appreciated. PhantomSteve/ talk| contribs\ 23:50, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Should royals, such as the supposed Mary and Anne of Denmark, be given such surnames? See Talk:Mary and Anne of Denmark#Surname. DrKiernan ( talk) 17:15, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
I've noticed that we've still got articles like Lulach & Denis of Portugal (for examples). Are we still moving such articles to Name, King/Queen of X? If so, should those articles also be moved or are RMs required? GoodDay ( talk) 21:12, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Are these articles notable? Reigen ( talk) 10:37, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
FYI, there's an ongoing discussion at Template talk:Monarchism about the image that should be used in the "Part of a series on monarchism" template. Pichpich ( talk) 20:49, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Is the Hanoverian law of succession Salic or semi-Salic? Reigen ( talk) 00:16, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
In my experience bogus data sometimes emerge and perpetuate on Wikipedia. My shallow googling for the spurious ostrogothic king Eraric indicates no source except the infinite number of wikipedia copies. Did he exist, or did a false meme slink into wikipedia? If you know anything please answer at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography#Sourceless_alert:_Eraric Rursus dixit. ( mbork3!) 16:59, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be an article on the title the Marquis de Lafayette. We have the article Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, which states that his father also held the title "Marquis de Lafayette". The article La Fayette family seems to indicate that the family was established by Gilbert du Motier (I suppose this would be as usage as a surname)... so there's no family lineage article. Does anyone have information necessary to build such an article on the marquisate? 70.24.251.71 ( talk) 11:20, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
There's many related articles which need updating, due to the birth of Isla Philips. Beginning with David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley article. GoodDay ( talk) 15:49, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Template:House of Stewart (Scotland) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DrKiernan ( talk) 18:44, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Came across the Mughal Abul-Hasan ibn Mirza Ghiyas Beg, newly renamed by User:Yazid97. My gut feel is that we can probably come up with a more concise name, but it's not really my field so can anyone help? There's a few more members of the family as red links at Asaf Khan. FlagSteward ( talk) 20:01, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Please join this discussion about images use on List of Norwegian monarchs and the articles of the Norwegian kings.-- Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy ( talk) 15:30, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
This article may need some attention. Hack ( talk) 06:12, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Greeting everyone. There is currently a heated debate taking place at Talk:Elizabeth II#Third opinion in regards to the way the term 'Royal Family' should be capitalised. It has been established that the majority of the articles relating to the British Monarchy all tend to style the word in capitals when the context is specifically about the family of the Queen; and the same term would be in lower case if the words were referring to any royal family in general. Many wiki-guidelines have been referred and they haven't been very helpful, with most contradicting each other. Official sources also stated the words should be capitalised, while other sources into "proper noun styles" state the words should not be capitalised. Would it please be possible for members of this project to head over to the talk page and assist in settling this dispute. I have attempted to hold a WP:3O and provided evidence, but one user seems to be failing to "get it". Thanks, Wesley Mouse 15:49, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
I've just nominated Shunzhi Emperor of China for Good article. Reviewers are welcome to visit the the Shunzhi Emperor's talk page to open a review page! And could someone with more authority than I add Shunzhi Emperor to the list of good article nominees on this project page? Thank you! Cheers, Madalibi ( talk) 05:07, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Category:Royalty contains a large number of sub-categories and articles which, strictly speaking, are not royalty, because they concern other ranks of the peerage, such as barons. I've removed a few, such as Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh and Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon. Some editors (myself included) left a note with the person who did this mass categorisation (see User talk:M'encarta), but despite the last comment there (20:21, 9 April 2012), I suspect that it has been ignored. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 15:13, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Alexandre, Grand Prince of Gutleben is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexandre, Grand Prince of Gutleben until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article.
I believe the correct title here is probably sth like Joseph de Caraman-Chimay the younger. Can someone take a look and fix please? In ictu oculi ( talk) 01:06, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Several requests to delete articles entitled "Line of succession to the former throne of X" (e.g. Württemberg, Tuscany, Two Sicilies) have recently been proposed for deletion from Wikipedia by Pat Gallacher. Although Wikipedians from various projects are being notified of these requests for removal, I think those who monitor this page may also appreciate being notified. FactStraight ( talk) 03:08, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
So it has now been proposed to restrict the list to only descendants of Elizabeth II. I thought anybody still monitoring this page might be interested in expressing their opinion on this. john k ( talk) 16:51, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
As I'm a self-declared republican, I won't push for these proposed changes. Anyways, I noticed that there's templates of deposed royal families that are titled as the following - Template:Romanian Royal Family, Template:Greek Royal Family, etc etc. IMHO, those should be changed to Template:Former Romanian Royal Family, Template:Former Greek Royal Family (or something similiar) for examples. GoodDay ( talk) 20:11, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
I've nominated that article for deletion, as we don't have Canadian head of state, British head of state, Jamaican head of state, etc etc. GoodDay ( talk) 21:05, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
file:King PrithviBirBikramShadev grandson of Maharaj Jung Bahadur.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.43 ( talk) 04:50, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
Comments would be welcome at Talk:Charles Hay (British general)#Suggested move. Thanks. Opera hat ( talk) 00:34, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Do royal dynasties, houses, family pages belong in this wikiproject? If so I'll go ahead and start adding it to their talk pages because I noticed a lot of them like House of Plantagenet, House of York, House of Normandy, Hauteville family aren't tagged as such. Thanks, — dain- talk 16:51, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
The editor who initially shepherded Suleiman the Magnificent to FA status has been inactive for many years and the quality of the article has begun to degrade. Any experts who can come in and buff the article up to snuff again would be appreciated.-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 03:26, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
This new article needs attention in terms of references, anglicised names, wikilinks, genealogy, etc. I thought I'd leave you a note, so if anyone is interested, please go ahead. De728631 ( talk) 16:25, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
Can someone working in this area check this article which I suspect duplicates an existing article as explained on it talk page. Rmhermen ( talk) 01:58, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Several Imperial Chinese royalty portraits have been nominated for speedy deletion:
-- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 09:44, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Also
-- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 02:41, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
Someone put the same image as that of her daughter's article in place of the previous picture. I reverted this but would appreciate some confirmation that the images are correct on both articles. See talk page for further discussion. Mangoe ( talk) 13:28, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
File:Ducele de Halland.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 01:44, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
File:Maharaj Jung London 1850 AD.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 ( talk) 04:03, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
See Talk:Emperor Gaozu of Later Jin where a large number of Chinese emperors are proposed for renaming. It also appears to be an adjustment in the Chinese emperor naming scheme is proposed (and not on WP:NC-ZH, where it should be) -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 21:06, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Please join in: Talk:Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands#Move discussion D B D 15:03, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
We could use some advice and guidance at Talk:List_of_Freemasons#Alphabetizing_members_of_the_British_Peerage as to how best to alphabetize various Royals and Peers who were/are Freemasons. Please swing by and help us out. Thanks Blueboar ( talk) 14:03, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
I just found House of Silva while patrolling newpages, and it feels mildly suspicious to me -- not least because it was created by someone whose username is "Silvafamilie". As well, the only references are other Wikipedia articles.
Those might both be innocent errors from well-intentioned amateurs. Or they might not. And I really don't know where to look for this sort of detail. Can anyone tell if this is genuine, or just a hoax? DS ( talk) 13:48, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I have begun an RfC on the question of whether it is bias to describe Elizabeth II as "Queen of the United Kingdom" in the infobox. Please comment at Talk:Elizabeth II#Infobox. DrKiernan ( talk) 17:23, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi. We're having a discussion on the fate of Horrible Histories TV show at: Horrible Histories (2009 TV series)#Moving on. As a relevant Wikiproject, we would greatly appreciate it if you would voice your opinion on the talk page, or to have a crack at editing and improving it. Thankyou for your time. :)-- Coin945 ( talk) 13:22, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
image:King Boris III of Bulgaria with M36 helmet.jpg has been nominated for deeltion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 01:46, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Through this way, I inform there is a discussion at WT:Disambiguation about partially disambiguated titles, known as " PDABs". This subguide of WP:D affects articles in this WikiProject, some examples can be found at WP:NCROY. There you can give ideas or thoughts about what to do with this guideline. Note this discussion is not to modify any aspect of NCROY. Thanks. Tbhotch. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 01:03, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
Please come participate in the discussion over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject France#Painting used in William of Gellone. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 17:27, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
It occurs to me that it might be interesting and informative to categorise articles on noble titles, and perhaps royal ones too, by their inheritance clauses. i.e. broadly speaking, male-first primogeniture, male-only primogeniture, strict primogeniture, and "other". Typically this is already in the article, but "infobox'd" rather than by in category form. 84.203.38.5 ( talk) 23:36, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
See Talk:Emperor Jimmu where a whole bunch of emperors are up for renaming (there are more emperors templated than that are listed in the rationale) -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 12:58, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Please join in discussion on splitting Talk:List of Georgian monarchs#Splitting into many lists.-- The Emperor's New Spy ( talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Ancestry of Elizabeth II ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) seems to be mainly based on forums. It doesn't have this projects tag either. Took it to BLPN but if someone here can make sure it complies to our sourcing policy that would be great. Dougweller ( talk) 06:03, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
For your information ... Ravenswing 22:36, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
image:Petar VI of Croatia.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 ( talk) 07:49, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
See talk:Princess Fu where the title for the wife of a monarch is being discussed. Is it "princess" or "queen"? -- 70.24.244.158 ( talk) 04:51, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Could someone with decent resources check out Jahan Shah IV? I did a regular Google search, Google Books, and Google Scholar, but found nothing on the guy. The only cited reference is a book whose title and author also get no results. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 02:33, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
Akhenaten, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Dana boomer ( talk) 17:06, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
It has been suggested that I bring this to the attention of editors here. -- SergeWoodzing ( talk) 12:49, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Is this legit? Hack ( talk) 15:36, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Proposed restrictions on styles & titles of former royals A proposal is now pending to !vote to ban use of titles, honorifics and styles historically associated with titled members of no longer reigning families or to require that wherever such titles are mentioned in a Wikipedia bio, article or template that a disclaimer must be attached informing the reader that the title/style is not legal or is a courtesy title only. You may read opinions and express your views here. FactStraight ( talk) 22:55, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Here's another AfC submission relevant to this Project. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 00:57, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Just seeking a wider range of input from informed persons at Template_talk:Height#rfc_97AACED.-- Gibson Flying V ( talk) 01:21, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Last month I nominated the article about Elizabeth of Bosnia for FA status, but it has not attracted enough reviewers yet. Elizabeth was queen of two realms, but is most notable for her disastrous regency. The article (rated GA) is within the scope of WikiProject Royalty and Nobility, and I would be very grateful if a member of this WikiProject commented on the nomination. Surtsicna ( talk) 12:54, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
There is a content dispute going on at several articles dealing with currently living members of the former royal family of Georgia — which consisted of one or more kingdoms / principalities until the early 19th century, when it was absorbed by the Russian empire (and later, after a brief independence, by the USSR). Georgia is a republic today, but some Georgians have proposed a revival of the monarchy. The content dispute involves at least three articles — Batonishvili, Anna Bagration-Gruzinsky, and Giorgi Bagrationi (born 2011) — and as I see the dispute, it seems to involve not only the question of whether or not the currently living descendants of former Georgian kings ought to be styled as royalty, but also which of two rival claims to any potential restoration of the monarchy ought to receive primary recognition. In addition to the articles themselves and their talk pages, please see discussions at User talk:FactStraight and User talk:Richwales (one of the two parties to the content dispute has been seeking my assistance on my own talk page). Note that I am an admin, but I consider myself involved regarding topics related to Georgia. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:02, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
@ EdJohnston: You've just mentioned the historians and you've made a very valid point here. The thing is that the royal status of Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky is not and was never disputed by anyone and the only controversial, biased and disputed persona is David Bagration of Mukhrani who claims to be a royalty while he is not and never was as he is just a nobility. I asked the user above to present the reliable sources supported by the historians, professors and those who have a degree in a field of history, genealogy of Bagrations of History of Georgia as such and all he presented was some kind of sources from news agencies what is indeed laughable and shows clearly that no such sources exist to prove David Bagration of Mukhrani's being a royalty. I want to note that the user above is blaming me for being non-neutral just because he by having no sources is pushing his bias everywhere to present David Bagration of Mukhrani being a royalty and on the other hand he is ignoring the undisputed status of royal family of Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky, his daughter and his grandchild. As I've asked the user above to present the reliable sources proving David being a royalty and taken into a consideration that there are none of these sources I'd like to present again who the real royalty is and always was.
Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky is recognized as a head of whole Bagrationi dynasty by:
Adding to that Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky is recognized by all Bagrationi memebers (source here) in and outside Georgia except the only one family of David Bagration of Mukhrani who live in Spain and regard themselves as "royals".
I want to note that the propagandist and biased moves of the family of David Bagration of Mukhrani is supported by some Russian monarchists who want to justify the marriage of Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia's father to that Bagration who was from Mukhrani noble line. Maria Vladimirovna's critics saying that his father married a person of an unequal status is indeed right and correct as everyone from the House of Mukhrani being never a royalty but just nobility could not marry a Romanov. And now because of this Maria Vladimirovna by knowing this fact could not be reversed all she and her "imperial" family does is that they support the positions of David Bagration of Mukhrani everywhere in Europe to make him to seem a royalty and on the other hand to justify that she was born to 2 equal status royalty parents which is a totally a blatant lie because her mother was never a royalty just like David Bagration of Mukhrani. Giving all these very facts that's why some Spanish and Russian sources especially without knowing the true genealogical issues regarding the Bagrationi dynasty regard David Bagration of Mukhrani as "royalty" that being result of the active biased work done by his Russian supporters. David declared his father to be George XIII as the King of Georgia and his grandfather Erekle III King of Georgia which is clear how ridiculous their actions are. Their family line shows it perfectly what they represent and what are their origins and the some sources from news agencies cannot be of an equal strength as of the historians, professors, academicians and all those who have a degree in the history of Georgia, Bagrationi dynasty and all those issues regarding to the genealogical issues. Again, this is of highest possible importance issue and all those articles I've posted in the talk page of admin @ Richwales: should be edited accordingly to the reliable historical sources and not some news agencies especially the Russo-Spanish news agencies who have zero knowledge in the Bagrationi origins. Jaqeli ( talk) 11:39, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello!
There´s a discussion at Swedish Royal Family, started here [3] and continued slightly below here [4] about how to best mention Christopher O'Neill and three others who also married swedish princesses in the article. We´re at something of a stalemate, so if anyone would like to try to help us get a consensus, please do. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 10:04, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Boris, Hereditary Prince of Montenegro#Requested_move, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 12:40, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Scottish feudal barony of Grougar. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 18:22, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
All, In cruising around the pages of various nobility, sometimes I'll find a redlink (or 2, or 12...) to a family member. If I go look in the french or german wikipedia, sometimes I'll find a page about the person I'm interested in. In general, what is this project's opinion on changing those from straight redlinks to Interlanguage links where such pages exist? Regrettably, my language skills in these other languages is limited, so I could extract the bald facts, but I'm not yet up to translating the meat of these pages to bring them into the english wikipedia. 1bandsaw ( talk) 21:27, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Input requested. Should the default size of post-nominal letters set by this template remain at 85% or be increased to 100%? -- Necrothesp ( talk) 09:29, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Prince George Karageorgevitch. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 14:56, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
see Talk:Yi Gu, Talk:Yi Kang, Talk:Yi Un for discussion on what the proper name of the article should be, and how titles should be attached to the article name. -- 70.24.250.235 ( talk) 09:57, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
This talk page is getting rather long, with many subjects untouched for a couple of years. I'm happy to move some to the archive, but I also see that User:ClueBot III provides the capability to move things to archive in an automated fashion. Would anyone object if I set that up for this page? 1bandsaw ( talk) 21:44, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
The following AfD discussion may be of interest to editors on this project... Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of the mothers of Georgian monarchs. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 11:21, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
I've been working on the bringing the Royal Intermarriage article up to standard for a little while now. I've posted a request on the peer review page. here. It would be great if anyone has any input to give. Thanks! Sotakeit ( talk) 12:00, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Draft:Order of the Eagle of Georgia (and the Seamless Tunic of Jesus Christ). FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 13:34, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
If anyone has any input regarding the inclusion of princely houses of Georgia on the Royal houses of Europe template, a discussion has been started here and your input would be much appreciated. The template has used an inclusive definition of 'royal houses', included Imperial, Princely, Ducal and Grand Ducal houses. However there seems to have arisen a dispute regarding the princely houses of Georgia. Sotakeit ( talk) 09:18, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
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I'm not certain why, but over the years Alexander's death date & thus Nicholas' accession date, have often been changed from 1 November (O.S. 20 October) to 20 October (O.S. 8 October), thus causing inconsistancies in both articles. The question is... which is correct? GoodDay ( talk) 01:13, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
Please feel free to comment on an active dispute on Talk:Kamehameha I/Archive 1#RfC: Which picture should be used for the lead image?.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 06:49, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
I've been working on expanding the Royal Intermarriage article now for a little while and have just nominated it for Good Article Status. A review from any of you would be much appreciated. Many thanks. Sotakeit ( talk) 10:44, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
I have a source [1] which indicates that Garsenda, Countess of Forcalquier was the mother of Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn from a second marriage, presumably to Guillermo II de Montcada. However, both Gaston and Guillermo show that the Garsenda in question was the daughter of this woman by the only husband shown on her page. I don't see the sourcing for that data on those pages, but I'm reluctant to alter them based on a passing reference in a book that is not about her. Any suggestions? 1bandsaw ( talk) 14:18, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
I've started a discussion on moving Anne of Burgundy, Countess of Savoy. I would appreciate the input from others here on the project in the discussion. Thanks 1bandsaw ( talk) 16:36, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
How should we start such intros? Do we -
A) go with Queen X of country (thus matching the respective article title)?
B) Queen X?
C) use the consort's maiden full name, or
D) have no consistency atall & let each article have it's own version?
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Draft:Sir Richard Threston. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 18:50, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
Matthias Corvinus was an important 15th-century monarch in Central Europe. He is the first Hungarian nobleman who seized the throne without being linked to royal houses. The article has just undergone a restructuring and expansion, and it needs some improvement before GAN. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Borsoka ( talk) 13:25, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
I am more or less new to Wikipedia, and in need of guidance. That is perhaps not the right place to ask, but if it is not, please tell me where to go. Since French is my first language and I am interested in French history and nobility, I tried to do some editing on the article Duc de La Rochefoucauld. I have done that because the article had been obviously translated from French, sometimes word for word, with obvious misunderstandings, errors, nonsenses and even expressions kept in French. My intention was to do first some basic linguistic corrections before working a bit more on the individual biographies. However, all my edits have been reverted by another contributor User:FactStraight, on the following argument: according to him, "La Rochefoucauld" would not a be place name but just a surname, and I would have tried to rewrite the article "as if it were a Realm instead of a surname". Of course, La Rochefoucauld is a place before being a surname, and the Duchy took is name from the place. FactStraight seems to consider there are on one side "realms" which are independent territorial entities, and on the other side ducal titles totally disconnected from any territorial reality. Of course, French titles did not work like that and the Duke of La Rochefoucauld was the Duke of a territory (although of course not an independent one) since all titles had a territorial basis. So "Duke of La Rochefoucauld" is not different from "Duke of Orléans" or "Duke of Norfolk", as I tried to explain him. Is there a way to arbiter this discussion in a conciliatory way? As far as I am concerned, I don't see the point to do more work on that article if they have to be reverted immediately on that kind of argument, so I would prefer the question to be settled by a third party. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.198.140.20 ( talk) 16:38, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Gabriel de Saint Nicholas is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gabriel de Saint Nicholas until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Special:Contributions/69.251.230.130 is making a large number of change to articles on medieval Royalty and aristocracy. Some appear to be vandalism [5], but others appear to be legitimate, making it difficult to know what to do abut the many edits made by this ip which, for example, change the names of the children of various members of the (mainly) medieval nobility [6] [7]. Again, some are clearly valid [8], but others seem unintelligible. Many involve changing one version of the same name to another (E.g Joan to Joanna) etc. More eyes on these edits would be useful. Paul B ( talk) 13:13, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello all. Just to let you know, I've nominated this article for featured list status. The nomination page is here - any input or reviews would be much appreciated. Many thanks, -- Noswall59 ( talk) 17:21, 22 September 2014 (UTC).
Although the article itself is problematic, the deletion discussion has an interesting debate about the actual subject. I wonder whether Wikiproject members would have any interest in putting together the properly encyclopaedic article that ought to exist under Royal etiquette? Mabalu ( talk) 09:05, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
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All comments would be appreciated here. Thank you in advance. Borsoka ( talk) 03:05, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, a previously deleted article, is being discussed for a possible move from AfC to the main space. Interested editors are invited to contribute to the discussion or help improve the article. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 17:47, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
This is a notice about Category:Royalty articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock ( talk) 23:28, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
All comments on this article about an allegedly Khazar ruler in the Carpathian Basin around 900 are appreciated here. Borsoka ( talk) 07:49, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Some changes are required at Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, to reflect that her son is now 19th Duke of Alba. Furthermore, her successor's article needs to be moved to Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 19th Duke of Alba. GoodDay ( talk) 16:36, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
User:Intelligent Mr Toad has raised this subject elsewhere on the wiki - why does Wikipedia give people royal titles when they were born years after the monarchy was abolished in their country?
For example, Princess Johanna of Hesse and by Rhine never actually held that title because the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine was abolished 18 years before she was born. Paul Austin ( talk) 22:58, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Angevin, a disambiguation page related to this project, has about 36 incoming links. Any help fixing even a few of these would be greatly appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 14:24, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
I've run into an area where I could use some clarification. Within the Template:WikiProject Biography there is a parameter 'listas' which helps to alphabetize names, so that an article with the title John Quincy Adams would be listed as Adams, John Quincy for purposes of sorting our numerous category pages. How do we do this for nobility? Should someone like Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy be sorted in lists as Coucy, Enguerrand VII; or Enguerrand VII de Coucy; or Coucy, Enguerrand VII Lord of or ...? If their article title includes what many would consider a family name (e.g. Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, I would think it would be Bohun, Humphrey, but then how do you include the title (or do you)? Or is it de Bohun, Humphrey? I can't find the answer at WP:NCPEER or on our project page, and I've seen pages where all these ways are used, even within the same family. 1bandsaw ( talk) 22:57, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Here's another one. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 14:39, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Mind having a look at this one? Thanks again, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 19:17, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gherardini family. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 10:54, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Looks like a very interesting article and well-researched. Is there something in the sources which could say more about their familial (marriage/parentage) relationships to other noble families? A family tree? Nice work! 1bandsaw ( talk) 18:21, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
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All comments would be appreciated here. Borsoka ( talk) 03:31, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I am just letting members of the project know that I have nominated the above article at FLC—it's review page is here. Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, — Noswall59 ( talk) 00:35, 29 January 2015 (UTC).
Would appreciate more input at this discussion, from members here. GoodDay ( talk) 08:24, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect King of Antarctica. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. DrKiernan ( talk) 08:33, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
All comments and suggestions would be appreciated here. Thank you for your time in advance. Borsoka ( talk) 19:04, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi everybody. On behalf of the teams behind the Wikipedia Primary School research project, I would like to announce that the article Nelson Mandela (of interest to this wikiproject) was selected a while ago to be reviewed by an external expert. We'd now like to ask interested editors to join our efforts and improve the article before March 15, 2015 (any timezone) as they see fit; a revision will be then sent to the designated expert for review (please see the article's talk page for details). Any notes and remarks written by the external expert will be made available on the article's talk page under a CC-BY-SA license as soon as possible, so that you can read them, discuss them and then decide if and how to use them. Please sign up here to let us know you're collaborating. Thanks a lot for your support! Elitre (WPS) ( talk) 17:16, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Please help to review Draft:House of Köröskényi - the sources need to be checked by someone who understands the topic. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 18:18, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
In looking through the pages to try and tease apart the relationships between the Counts of Zollern, I have found a puzzle:
Frederick XI says that he died in 1401. Frederick X says that he died in 1412, but that Frederick XI succeeded him upon his death. Zollern omits Frederick X from the list of counts, going straight from Frederick IX to Frederick XI.
The German page de:Grafschaft_Hohenzollern includes Frederick X in the list, but also includes the contradiction in dates above.
Does anyone have a source that might help straighten out this line? 1bandsaw ( talk) 18:39, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
All comments and suggestions are welcome here. Thank you for your time in advance. Borsoka ( talk) 03:48, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
The following AfD may be of interest for the editors in this project: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bharat Dev Varma. -- Dwaipayan ( talk) 17:39, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
There is an ongoing RM discussion. Join in to improve consensus. -- George Ho ( talk) 07:18, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
Please give an opinion on Talk:Kalolaa-kumukoa#Requested move and check/verify the sources on the issue. Thanks.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 12:47, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Could someone comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jabr bin Muhammed Al Thani? – Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:57, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
I am making a tabulation of Spanish dukedoms; see Dukedoms of Spain. Data is taken from Spanish wikipedia, es:Anexo:Ducados de España. If you have the time, please help in adding data to the table. For consistency, dukedoms which had been re-created have separate entries; the Houses column lists the surnames of the holders of the ducal title, unless there is only one holder, which I marked as "Lone holder". If you could find other dukedoms not yet in the list, add them too. Reigen ( talk) 06:36, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Could I ask for your opinions at Category talk:Royal children#Age. Thanks. CDRL102 ( talk) 21:00, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Can I ask for input at Talk:Jazmin Grace Grimaldi#Media References. Thanks. CDRL102 ( talk) 23:50, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
It has been proposed to merge the article at Aryasb into the article at Abradatas, king of Susa. Discussion at Talk:Abradatas#Merge from Aryasb. -- Bejnar ( talk) 17:37, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
All comments would be appreciated here. Thank you for your time. Borsoka ( talk) 22:03, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Why is a religion listed in Marie's infobox?
A four year old toddler who cannot tell time or tie her own shoes is not old enough to have a religion. Paul Austin ( talk) 14:53, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Can we have a final decision on how to describe Elizabeth II & her family, across Wikipedia? Shall we call them (for examples) British monach or Commonwealth realms' monarch? British royal family or Commonwealth realms' royal family? Shall we use Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, or Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom or just Elizabeth II (which is confusing when we use a country for other monarchs, btw)? Myself & Miesianiacal, have disagreed on these issues (as recently as at Margarethe II of Denmark), therefore I think we need to clarify things. GoodDay ( talk) 15:48, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
We'll continue to play it article-by-article, then. GoodDay ( talk) 22:04, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
I started a proposal to add draft, file and redirect classes for all WP Biography articles here. This would first help organize any new drafts from the 80 or so articles at Category:NA-Class biography (royalty) articles so we can identify the draft articles more easily. Please comment there. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 00:44, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
There is currently an AfD discussion regarding an article that may be relevant to this project. Interested editors are encouraged to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Count de Salis-Seewis. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 17:41, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
There is currently an AfD discussion regarding an article that may be relevant to this project. Interested editors are encouraged to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Count de Salis-Seewis. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 17:41, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:Edward Bouverie. Thank you, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 15:35, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:Jane Lewkenor. Thanks, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 16:52, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
I noticed at Talk:Imelda Marcos this is now tagged as a WPROYALTY article. Is this correct? I can't seem to find aristocratic status on the article page -- 70.51.200.135 ( talk) 14:07, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Also, this article has two biographical infoboxes, one for officeholder and one for royalty, do articles contain two biographical infoboxes, and since this doesn't seem to be an aristocrat, should it even use the royalty infobox? -- 70.51.200.135 ( talk) 04:51, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Our article William Pitt the Younger currently contains the text the King's eldest son, Prince George, Prince of Wales, but the title of our article Charles, Prince of Wales would seem to contradict this usage, and I was inclined to edit the wording of the former article to remove the first instance of "Prince" so as to read the King's eldest son, George, Prince of Wales. However, the latter article cites a source whose title is The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (2 vols), and so if this is correct usage I don't want to fix what isn't broken.
Thoughts?
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 11:16, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Category:Royal family orders, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for upmerging to Category:Orders, decorations, and medals. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect ( talk) 00:20, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
There is a new article Education of the British Royal Family, requesting input from editors on several active RfCs and discussions on Talk and help with improvement to focus more on history and the theory and practice of the provision of education to the Royal family. Whizz40 ( talk) 05:33, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
Prince Oscar of Sweden redirects currently to Prince Oscar Bernadotte. Should that be changed to redirecting to Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne? -- Editor FIN ( talk) 08:16, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
All comments would be highly appreciated here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Coloman, King of Hungary/archive1. Thank you for your time. Borsoka ( talk) 06:31, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Ankit Love of the Dogra dynasty that had the last Maharaja Hari Singh ruling till 1952, has made a claim to the throne of Jammu and Kashmir. The territory is still subject to the on going armed Kashmir conflict. The article is subject to a heated Afd debate and requires urgent attention. Please also see Ankit Love's talk page.-- Int Researcher ( talk) 13:13, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
There is a requested move at Talk:Ayşe Hafsa Sultan#Requested move 13 June 2016 on a page that lists this WikiProject as interested in the article's subject. You are invited to the talk page to give your input. OUR Wikipedia (not "mine")! Paine 01:14, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Comments would be highly appreciated here. Thank you for your time. Borsoka ( talk) 14:09, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
It's really interesting that WP's guideline on royalty means Johanna gets an article, even though she was a 2 year old baby. It's frustrating. Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 10:44, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Tycho Brahe, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. More details are available on the re-assessment page. Please ping me if you need anything as my watchlist is already quite large and I'd prefer not to add seven or eight more wikiprojects to my watchlist on top of the ones that I already have. Mr rnddude ( talk) 23:36, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Hey guys,
This was sent to OTRS, but seems better placed for you. Can someone take a look please? Thanks :) Mdann52 ( talk) 21:28, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
I know that articles in Wikipedia can edited but given the prominence of the people involved, I am sending this to you with the hopes that you have a way of vetting my opinion for accuracy. I am not an expert in royal titles by an means but I have read quite a bit about them, certainly enough to know they can be confusing. I believe the Wikipedia titles for the current wives of several members of the British Royal Family should be changed . Specifically, I am referring to the following individuals:
In each case, the title of your article for these individuals represent the royal title these individuals would hold if they were to divorce their husband. In using these titles for your article titles, you imply they are divorced. For example, Sarah, Duchess of York is her current title and your article title reflects this. Prior the her divorce her title was HRH, The Duchess of York. The same hold true for Diana, Princess of Wales. Your article title for Diana is her actual title at the time of her death . She was HRH, The Princess of Wales prior to her divorce.When a female is divorced from a male member of the British Royal family, the HRH (if they held this title) is removed from their title as well as the word The. Their first name is also used where it is not used in their title when they are married. As I mentioned above, this all sounds quite confusing when you first here it and never really become one hundred percent clear for most of us. That is why I would suggest verify what I am saying for accuracy. However, I am sure you would agree that you do not wish to imply they are divorced and by using the title you currently do if what I believe to be the case is accurate.
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Hubertus,_Hereditary_Prince_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha Engleham ( talk) 05:37, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Even though I despise the racist term "vandalism", it is wikipedia's word for the rule not to intentionally ruin articles. Most of the articles about German Royals, or Germans in General, have their names translated into English. All of the " Friedrich Wilhelms" for example become "Frederick William". Rather, most of them do.
Why?
We do this for no other ethnicity. For other languages, we simply Transliteration (a concept many wikipedia editors said they are unfamiliar with)Translating German names into English is offensive and tantamount to cultural genocide. I am glad they have the original German names listed in parentheses (Which I have fought years for, at the loss of several accounts, but have largely won!). However, the article's titles are clearly wrong.
If my name were Wilhelm, but you called me William, I would offended, and others would be confused as to whom William was. We do not do this with Japanese Royals. Or Spanish. Or any other ethnicity. Then, to make wikipedia look even less accurate, it does not follow this practice 100%. Maybe about 80%-90%. This causes even more confusion. If someone thought a Friedrich Wilhelm was a Frederick William, there can be a redirect. And the article can say "Friedrich Wilhelm so and so (Frederick William in English, Federico Guillermo in Spanish, Frederic Guillaume in French)" ,etc. Though, if his name is Friedrich Wilhelm, I am unsure why the other languages are necessary. Thought it would be much more accurate and intelligent then the current state of wikipedia.
I can easily fix all of the articles myself. However, someone would need to hold the wikigoons at bay for me. Vielen Dank. 2001:558:6012:5A:565:ABEA:FCDE:5BBD ( talk) 19:42, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
I assume you all use {{WikiProject Biography|royalty-work-group=yes}}
for tagging your articles, as {{
WikiProject Royalty and Nobility}} has no functionality whatsoever. Would anybody mind if I simply redirected that template to {{
WikiProject Biography}} and explained this in the documentation? –
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So this is a thing that has been bugging me for a while in British-related articles. It often turns up in lists of officeholders. So privy counsellors are entitled to the style of " Rt. Hon.", while younger sons of peers are entitled to the style of " Hon." There appears to be a general ban on using "Rt. Hon." in most list articles, which seems probably correct to me, since a pretty solid number of those are going to have every person listed be a privy counsellor. However, there does not seem to be a similar ban for "Hon.," so a lot of list articles will feature privy counsellors who were also younger sons of peers listed as "Hon." This seems clearly wrong to me - they were, like the other people who are on the list with no honorific prefixes, "Rt. Hon." from the moment they were appointed to the Privy Council. It seems to me that a list should either include all prefixes (and of course use the correct "Rt. Hon." for privy counsellors who are younger sons of peers, or else use no prefixes, to avoid weird inconsistencies. I'm not at all urging the adoption of any consistent rule where all articles must do the same thing with this, but I feel pretty strongly that each article should be internally consistent. Anyone else have any thoughts? I assume, like almost all my wikipedia interventions of late, this will not get any reply, but it'd be nice. Also, does anyone know if there's a manual of style page, or some such, that would deal with this where it would make sense to bring it up? john k ( talk) 18:30, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
Can anyone help pin down Lord Burnham?-- Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 15:18, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
This was how I found the name, but not sure there should be all the commas. Anyone?-- Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 13:33, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
I just created Herbert Stuart Pakington, 4th Baron Hampton based on sources available to me. I'm sure there's more out there...-- Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 12:52, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
Aren't all wars of succession basically about who is to wield/embody supreme power in a monarchy with a hereditary head of state? If so, why are so many of the wars in the Category:Succession-based civil wars situated in republics with an elected head of state, or about wars which aren't about who is to wield/embody supreme power? The Chilean Civil War of 1891, for example, has nothing whatsoever to do with hereditary succession. The creator of this category wrote that 'This is a grouping of civil wars in which the primary cause involved rights to succession to leadership.' First of all, the 'primary' cause of a war is often quite debatable and sometimes arbitrary, and second, 'leadership' is quite a lot more vague than e.g. hereditary kingship. It seems to me that this category has no right to exist (at least not in its current form). The very term 'Succession-based civil war' and its definition seem completely OR, I've not seen them used anywhere else (Google finds 0 results for 'succession-based civil war'). We've already got the categories for wars of succession and civil wars, I propose to delete this one, unless someone could convince me why it should exist (perhaps with a different definition and/or different items in it). Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 18:25, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Please help in the improvement of Liliuokalani by commenting Wikipedia:Peer review/Liliuokalani/archive1 for suggested improvements. Thanks.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 19:40, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
This was recently brought to my attention on my talk page and it is a mess. I am not altogether sure it is not a hoax. Can anyone shed some light on it? I am thinking that perhaps the author meant Grand Duke of Finland when writing Archduke but I am uncertain, except that the article is unsourced and unless improved needs to go away. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 04:08, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
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There is currently a move request discussion related to this WikiProject taking place at Talk:Wu Zetian. Please weigh in there if you care. — AjaxSmack 02:23, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
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