# Talk:George Spafford Richardson

I thought that the article is a bit thin on content for a GA candidate and thus looked into his local body career. From my brief reading, it would appear that his common name is George Richardson. Thoughts? Schwede66 09:56, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

There are already quite a few George Richardson articles, so I think the middle name is a useful disambiguator. Cheers. Zawed (talk) 04:12, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
It seems to be a reasonably common misconception that middle names can be used for disambiguation when that is clearly not the case: "If there is no usual form of conventional disambiguation, place a disambiguating tag in parentheses after the name." If the common name does not include the middle name, it shouldn't be used for dab purposes. Schwede66 04:32, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

This funny story was in the newspapers in 1924. Schwede66 19:01, 2 August 2016 (UTC)