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The three academic sources currently cited name this Anne Whitney artwork Leif Eriksson (note the double S in the patronym). This article should be moved, but what is the best way to disambiguate it? Jonathunder ( talk) 15:10, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm torn on this one. MOS:ART doesn't say anything about which variation to use when there are multiple spellings or other variations of a subject's name. The main case like this I know of is Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (San Francisco), where there was debate over whether to go with "Mahatma Gandhi" or "Mohandas K. Gandhi", which was inscribed on the statue's pedestal. The case for "Mohandas K. Gandhi" being the statue's "real name", as was claimed, was weak – it was based on the inscription alone, and wasn't backed up by any of the reliable sources cited in the article. The article title ended up using "Mahatma Gandhi" for consistency with the parent article, and so that there could also be a consistent style across Category:Statues of Mahatma Gandhi.
In the case of this work, more of the online sources cited use "Leif Eriksson" for the statue than was the case with "Mohandas K. Gandhi" – three of the five I can access (I can't get the Google Books link to work). They are as follows:
Of course, there could be an even split if the Olmsted book uses "Erikson".
The one other statue of the subject with an article is Leif, the Discoverer (Whitney), so the question of spelling "Eriks(s)on" consistently across the statues' article titles doesn't arise. We don't try to "fix" the title of Boadicea and Her Daughters to be consistent with Boudica, but then that is more of an actual artwork title like Leif, the Discoverer, and unlike "Statue of Leif Erikson". Johnbod, any thoughts? Ham II ( talk) 09:20, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
--- Another Believer ( Talk) 21:30, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
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The three academic sources currently cited name this Anne Whitney artwork Leif Eriksson (note the double S in the patronym). This article should be moved, but what is the best way to disambiguate it? Jonathunder ( talk) 15:10, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm torn on this one. MOS:ART doesn't say anything about which variation to use when there are multiple spellings or other variations of a subject's name. The main case like this I know of is Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (San Francisco), where there was debate over whether to go with "Mahatma Gandhi" or "Mohandas K. Gandhi", which was inscribed on the statue's pedestal. The case for "Mohandas K. Gandhi" being the statue's "real name", as was claimed, was weak – it was based on the inscription alone, and wasn't backed up by any of the reliable sources cited in the article. The article title ended up using "Mahatma Gandhi" for consistency with the parent article, and so that there could also be a consistent style across Category:Statues of Mahatma Gandhi.
In the case of this work, more of the online sources cited use "Leif Eriksson" for the statue than was the case with "Mohandas K. Gandhi" – three of the five I can access (I can't get the Google Books link to work). They are as follows:
Of course, there could be an even split if the Olmsted book uses "Erikson".
The one other statue of the subject with an article is Leif, the Discoverer (Whitney), so the question of spelling "Eriks(s)on" consistently across the statues' article titles doesn't arise. We don't try to "fix" the title of Boadicea and Her Daughters to be consistent with Boudica, but then that is more of an actual artwork title like Leif, the Discoverer, and unlike "Statue of Leif Erikson". Johnbod, any thoughts? Ham II ( talk) 09:20, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
--- Another Believer ( Talk) 21:30, 25 October 2019 (UTC)