Talk:Inspector Lestrade
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[edit] Name of page
Why is the page titled "George Lestrade" when the only thing the canon reveals about Lestrade's first name is that it begins with G? --Loopus 22:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
- I'll just copy here the discussion from my talk page (User talk:Lowellian) and User talk:Garion96:
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- Hi, I saw you moved the Inspector Lestrade article to George Lestrade. Where did you found the first name? I always thought it was never given in the Holmes stories. Cause right now it still states in the article that "In The Cardboard Box, his first initial is revealed to be G.". Garion96 (talk) 22:54, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
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- I moved it to George Lestrade because I felt it was more appropriate for a page to give a person's name than the person's title. As for "George", that was because the article stated his name to be George before I ever edited the page, and because I assumed that the information in the article was correct.
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- However, after you commented on my page, I became curious as to the source of the name "George", so I did a computerized search through the texts of all the original Sherlock Holmes stories and books by Arthur Conan Doyle. I do not know if Lestrade's name is ever given, but my search revealed that it was definitely not stated to be George, so that information is incorrect.
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- Furthermore, I searched through the page's history. The information was added by an anon, User:193.180.228.186, who first gave the name as Richard (see diff [1]) and then immediately changed the name to George (see diff [2]). This looks like subtle vandalism to me, and I have thus reverted the change and moved the page back to Inspector Lestrade. —Lowellian (reply) 08:03, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
- I think that clears up the matter. Thanks to User:Garion96 for bringing this to my attention.
