Talk:Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary)

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[edit] Ned: Disambiguted Title & the Lead

"Commonly called Ned" is misleading or simply false.

"Edward Ned Daly" "Easter Rising"

gives "21 of about 35",

"Ned Daly" "Easter Rising"

(which includes the 21 above) gives "70 of about 161", leaving 49 of 126 for "Ned Daly" without "Edward" immediately preceding, and

"Edward Daly" "Easter Rising"

gives "143 of about 286".
Ignoring clones, we have 70 plain Ned, twice as many (143) plain Edward, and, out of 234 total, 91, or less than 39% mentioning "Ned" at all.
Calling him

Edward "Ned" Daly is fine, but there's no reason for making a bigger thing of the nickname than that. In particular, using Edward (Ned) Daly as the disambiguated name is ugly and unnatural, evokes the style of WP Dab titles too much for something that doesn't conform to that style, and is far less informative than Edward Daly (executed) (or perhaps some other equally terse title). I find "executed" attractive bcz it excludes so many other Edward Daly's (probably without the title being applicable to any other notable people), and bcz "Easter Rising", phrases that include "Irish" or "Ireland", etc. need more words to do the job.
--Jerzy•t 00:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)