Talk:John B. Fenn

message: There seem to be more than one "John Fenn": the article John_Fenn is about the antiquary, the article John_Bennett_Fenn is about the Nobel Prize winner, but most links meant for John_Bennett_Fenn seem to point to John_Fenn 142.157.64.42 03:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another John Fenn 

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message: I think that this article should be moved to John Fenn (scientist). I can't remember the MOS recommending using infamous middle names as disambiguation between people known by the same name. Also, the sources seem to use 'John Fenn' or 'John B. Fenn' often, but 'John Bennett Fenn' very rarely. Thoughts? --Eisfbnore talk 14:06, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No objection to a move, I would suggest John Fenn (chemist), though.  Canada Hky (talk) 17:53, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The usual format appears to be to include a middle name or initial when available. It helps search and navigation. The most high profile examples are probably the entries for George Bush. E.g. we have George H. W. Bush, 41st President and George W. Bush, 43rd President, amongst others. Here, we have lots of other John Fenns who have no middle name. I'd suggest John B. Fenn as the most consistent, and avoids arbitrary judgement calls on what to put as a suffix. Ephebi (talk) 11:44, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that John B. Fenn is more appropriate. He published under that name and that is how he is listed in his Nobel Prize autobiography. --Kkmurray (talk) 13:46, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Personal opinion, not based on policy or anything like that:  I've always found middle initial to be an annoying disambiguator - how likely am I to know that about someone when I am typing a name into the search box?  If it autofills with (chemist) as an option, or if it is one of the hits on google, I'll know I am on the right track.  Canada Hky (talk) 23:43, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's why we have disambiguation pages. :WP:NCP guides us to use the most commonly-quoted form of the name. It would need a lot of sifting to precisely establish that preferred form, but doing a quick Google search for *Fenn and "Nobel" gives us 112,000 hits for John B Fenn, and 26,000 for each of John Bennett Fenn and John Fenn, which I think is clear enough. Also note he could be called a lot of things other than Chemist. Ephebi (talk) 10:28, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: He could be called a lot of things besides "chemist", but for someone with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, a Ph.D. in chemistry, who served as a chemistry professor for the majority of his career, and won the Nobel Prize in chemistry - its a fairly logical title.  Disambiguation pages are nice, but it is much better to get someone to the correct article in the first place.  Canada Hky (talk) 17:10, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
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