Talk:Richard

message: : Cognates. French: Richard. Irish: Ristéard. ... Hungarian: Richárd Chinese: Xing Jian.
Chinese? I don't understand. How can a name in Europe be related to Chinese?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.56.203.210 (talk) 07:19, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Technically the poster is right -- so I added "Transliterations" --达伟 (talk) 11:21, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese? 

message: "Ric + hard?"  Seriously?  That's hilarious!
How about ricce + -ward: wealthy/powerful/leading/noble-like?  Sheesh.  I want a citation for the "hard" bit.  Odd, also, isn't it, that we have so many in Romance language areas. <sigh>
Anyway, this should be a standard disambiguation, and not a celebration of the name.  Look at any other first name, where folks are known by it (e.g. Hugh).  The fact that this page has its origins in an overly zealous kiddiewiki is one of those cases where I wonder why we try so hard to preserve things, rather than deleting and starting over. Geogre 17:05, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silly stuff 

message: First name articles are almost always either saints or disambiguations.  They are not pronunciation guides or, worse yet, replications of Wiktionary.  This article has been rewritten to follow suit, and it is now a disambiguation.  Those interested in learning a spurious etymology of the name and a list of Richards that aren't in a List article can see the history prior to this edit.  Sorry for being so snide about it, but we have long precedent, and folks ought to know not to duplicate Wiktionary in Wikipedia. Geogre 04:45, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overwrite 

message: There are thousands of people named Richard, or a variant thereof, and I suspect that there are hundreds of articles about notable people by this name on Wikipedia as well.  We should trim this infinite list down to those who are known as "Richard" in the singular form, or remove the lists all together and focus our writing on the name itself.  (jarbarf) 17:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad idea

message: whats the origin of these shortening?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.27.191.227 (talk) 17:18, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like to know that too since I have no clue.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.54.63.184 (talk) 09:46, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll second that. There must be some source that tells how Richard morphed to Dick as a nickname. Bizzybody (talk) 01:27, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  There are many old nicknames/shortenings in English where the first sound is changed. William > Will > Bill, Robert > Rob > Bob, for example. That might be a project. --Thnidu (talk) 14:22, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Dick

message: The preceeding appears to be quite silly.
A way to retrieve only all the surnames "Richard" would be more useful. Tusbra (talk) 23:09, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to list all Richards needed 

message: In the interest of saving paper and trees, how does one print just the first page of this article; there are eleven pages?   Tabletop (talk) 00:11, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Printing just page one? 

message: The following text: “Those with the name Richard are believed to be direct descendants from God himself.” Is currently at the start of the article. I am unsure how to mark something as needing citation, and so I am just making a note here that this both needs citation and doesn’t seem like the correct place in the article for this information. Marshal de grouchy (talk) 21:14, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, even though we all know it is true, I went ahead and removed it since nobody has published this fact in a reliable source. To mark something as needing a citation you edit the article, find the offending part and place  after it. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 03:16, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Descendants from God  

message: Same problem as here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Coos_Bay,_Oregon#%22Bare_minimum%22 
--2603:7000:2143:8500:A45B:E4AA:91E9:A3F9 (talk) 06:28, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem here 

message: What of the topic is rechard 103.236.176.155 (talk) 11:30, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: From Googling "Rechard" I can only tell that it is a family name. I am not sure what ethnic it is from. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 03:24, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  English