Talk:List of people by name: Ten-Tez

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[edit] Theodorakis/Teodorakis

I believe "Teodorakis" (his reason for being included on this page at all) is a misspelling, perhaps caused by a variant transliteration from Greek (the first letter of his last name on the article page is a Theta, which is commonly transliterated as "Th", while an one-for-one transliteration would give "T"). There are other places in the list where the "correct" spelling is noted in such cases. Any particular reason to not note it here? --Alvestrand 14:00, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

_ _ My approach to such cases has been that LoPbN is purely a navigational tool, and "erroneous" entries like this one (especially if they are piped to the right article) are just fine: if someone uses it (a small minority, abt .1% of Web sites, in this case) LoPbN's job is to get them to the article, and the article's job includes informing them of the correct spelling and/or variants more defensible than this one, of whether they play ice, field, or air hockey, of the nuances of nationality (beyond country of birth and main passport they used as adult, if someone thinks both are likely to be used to decide whether they have the right entry), minor occupations and affiliations, etc.

_ _ At one time, i would note spelling errors in the text, but i now generally move them to comments when i find old ones, and add comments only when i fear that someone (as if on the theory that we have no responsibility to users who are clueless enuf to search using an erroneous name) will remove the entry -- the editor abt to remove the entry is the only one with a real need for the error info, and they see the comment.

_ _ In this case, i think it's fine as it is; i have no objection to adding a comment to the entry; i would disapprove of adding uncommented text to the entry, bcz it would clutter more than it helped, and the means for detailed info on the situation is just a click away.
--Jerzy•t 02:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)