Talk:Simon de Montfort (disambiguation)

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Does Simon I de Montfort belong as one of the entries on this disambig page? Agent 86 01:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

message: This disambiguation does not agree with the information in Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and ..., Volume 5 page 44 edited by George Edward Cokayne  which cites authoritative studies of de Montfort family. The several books on English history published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press that I have at hand, and a mid 19th century school text published in England all agree with work just cited. 
However, the present disambiguation and titling of articles it links to may agree with the nomenclature of the Simon de Montfort Society in the U.S.A. 
I do not know if that makes it a matter of WP:Verifiability, WP:NPOV, WP:NOR or other guideline, or if anything needs to be fixed, and if so how. I need to refer to three of the Simon's in the article about Evesham, so will follow English usage and omit links to WP articles about them. If anyone wants to put links in, after I have edited Evesham I would be grateful.
Michael P. Barnett (talk) 18:42, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You really should link to their biographical articles.  For the numbered earls of Leicester, that should not be a problem.  For the SdeM (1240-1271), if you do not think he is VI, you can always change the title of that article.  Clearly here, Simon I de Montfort (c. 1025-1087) is not consistent with  --Rumping (talk) 01:55, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the answer may be not to use Roman numerals but dates, so that the last one will be Simon de Montfort (1240-1271).  This method of dabbing should resolve the doubt.  I would regard G.E.C., Complete Peerage produced in early 20th century by various editors as the most reliable source, unless this has been overtaken by more recent research.  Peterkingiron (talk) 21:16, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't like dates (and besides for many medieval people the dates themselves are not clear) and if you know the problem with dates, the chances are that the dab extension does not matter as you already know the biography you are looking for. I have just "solved" a very similar problem for Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock (see this footnote). The problem in the case of Lord Boyd was that it depends on distinguishing between de fact and de jure (as in times of civil conflict it can be tricky for scholars to work out when attainders were lifted) and (it seems to me) that often pre-World War II biographies were written with the nobility as the main customers, there is a tendency for them to follow however the family numbers of them and that may not be scholarly accurate. Therefore I find the best way to number them is to use the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, as many (most?) notable noble British families will have at least one family member entry in that book from which one can extrapolate a number. As the ODNB is a 21st century work it will tend to use the most recent scholarly work on numbering. The key though is whatever numbering system one decides to use, if there is disagreement between the sources then pick what you think is the most reliable modern sources and footnote them. If one is going to use websites like http://www.thepeerage.com/ then only use them if they cite their sources (WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT) and if you can check the sources, (for example I think that Sir Robert Anstruther, 1st Baronet does not carry reliable sources as the web pages given as sources do not cite their sources). You will find many out of copyright sources used by such sites as http://www.thepeerage.com/ at http://www.archive.org and Google Books (I have been building a chaotic private library page of such sources which may short cut the search) -- PBS (talk) 19:53, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: My concern was evolving when I made this posting. The topic is completely marginal to my interests -- I noticed the error only because I was responding, reluctantly, to a request for help on the Evesham article. I have no time to make the corrections. My major concern, which completely transcends the specifics of people named Simon de Montfort, is stated at Wikipedia talk:Verifiability#Wikipedia Epidemic error Michael P. Barnett (talk) 01:48, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I would always consider ODNB; but such questions as numbering are not likely to be the contributor's primary interest - especially when dealing with the thirteenth century when the modern system of numbering and precedence were anachronisms (so is Simon I, of course). I would follow Cokayne unless he (and his co-authors) have been superseded on the facts.  Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:19, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If you do not like my suggestion, how about Simon de Montfort (died 1271).  The dates of birth in the medieval period are sometime problematic, but those of death less usually.  The method of diambiguation by dates is used at a later period for example :Thomas Foley, as there are too many people for any other method to be feasible.  Peterkingiron (talk) 20:07, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: English usage

message: I noticed that this article has had the disputed accuracy tag since January of 2011. Can we remove this? Also, to which of the links does this tag refer? Fred.Pendleton (talk) 03:24, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Tag removed.  It seems to have derived from the discussion above this one, which ended incinclusively long ago.  Peterkingiron (talk) 21:34, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Factual Accuracy

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