![]() | A fact from Eugene W. Chafin appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 14 April 2020 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
| ![]() |
![]() | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
I reverted a bold edit by user:Winkelvi. I did this to revert three specific changes:
The standard way to deal with biographic information in Wikiepdia articles is to include the wife as daughter of someone. This is because the wife may or may not be a widow and so her surname can vary. Usually her father's will not.
2.a There is no need for "Together" as it is implicit in "They" more so only one child is named.
2.b There is no need to include her surname she is their child and so the surname should only be included if for some reason it is different.
2.c Placing the DOB in brackets is standard formatting, and if there was a DOD of say "January 1, 1921" it would be "Desdemona Eleanor (March 17, 1893 – January 1, 1921)" -- you have probably seen the style used on disambiguation pages.
All of this is standard notation in hundreds of biography articles from this period.
(3) The final part of the revert was to keep the small tree. It is useful because it shows how this man who was notable in his community had a family connection with a brother-in-law. Whether or not that is a significant connection is for the reader to decide. But family connections are often useful in politics, so although it show a connection to a brother-in-law that is informative.
-- PBS ( talk) 12:58, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
![]() | A fact from Eugene W. Chafin appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 14 April 2020 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
| ![]() |
![]() | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
I reverted a bold edit by user:Winkelvi. I did this to revert three specific changes:
The standard way to deal with biographic information in Wikiepdia articles is to include the wife as daughter of someone. This is because the wife may or may not be a widow and so her surname can vary. Usually her father's will not.
2.a There is no need for "Together" as it is implicit in "They" more so only one child is named.
2.b There is no need to include her surname she is their child and so the surname should only be included if for some reason it is different.
2.c Placing the DOB in brackets is standard formatting, and if there was a DOD of say "January 1, 1921" it would be "Desdemona Eleanor (March 17, 1893 – January 1, 1921)" -- you have probably seen the style used on disambiguation pages.
All of this is standard notation in hundreds of biography articles from this period.
(3) The final part of the revert was to keep the small tree. It is useful because it shows how this man who was notable in his community had a family connection with a brother-in-law. Whether or not that is a significant connection is for the reader to decide. But family connections are often useful in politics, so although it show a connection to a brother-in-law that is informative.
-- PBS ( talk) 12:58, 29 March 2015 (UTC)