Talk:David Leavitt

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    [edit] Pronunciation of Leavitt

    Does anyone here know for sure? Is it like "Leave it?" Enquiring minds want to know. Aviad2001 00:09, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Disambiguation page

    I see there was an attempt to force a change on this article, namely to turn it into a disambiguation page. I have reverted the edits and formatted the hatnotes at the top of the page. I've also redirected the newly created David F. Leavitt back to this article – since this project operates under the GFDL, a page rename cannot be done by simply pasting the contents into a new article, as that doesn't effectively preserve the page history (which, among other things, acts as a record of different editors' contributions to an article).

    If there is a need for a disambiguation page for the three Davids – and I'm not sure there is – it ought to be discussed first. And if that discussion determines the author article ought to be renamed "David F. Leavitt", the change needs to be handled via a page move, not a copy'n'paste. --Sturm 21:58, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

    Shouldn't there be a David Leavitt (disambiguation) page? Then each of the three can use {{otheruses}}. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 23:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
    I have never seen his name as 'David F. Leavitt', so it seems a little odd to me - I could be misguided though.Zigzig20s (talk) 23:14, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
    Now that you mention it, the only David F's I can find via Google appear to be unconnected to the writer. Does Leavitt even have a middle name? --Sturm 23:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
    I don't know, but it's a pretty safe assumption that he goes by 'David Leavitt'. If he has a middle name - more people do - then that isn't his professional name, if that makes sense.Zigzig20s (talk) 23:39, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
    (Reply to SatyrTN) It depends on how likely you think it is that someone will arrive at David O. Leavitt, say, when they actually want to get to David I. Leavitt or David Leavitt. A disambiguation page wouldn't actually do any harm as far as I can see; I'm just not convinced there's much to be gained. --Sturm 23:18, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
    What's to be gained is that then we don't need to keep adding to the pre-lede paragraph of this article when Dave Leavitt, David A. Leavitt, and Davide Leavite all become famous. We simply {{otheruses}} the top of this article and leave the rest alone. It's far more likely anyone looking for David O. will land here, and a dab page allows for at least a little more description than we would want to provide here. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 23:45, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
    NM. I was WP:BOLD. :) -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 23:56, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
    Oh, well. It forces an extra click in the disambiguation process, but at least it provides a more appropriate target for David F. --Sturm 00:23, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
    Did we ever decide who David F is/was? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 02:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
    I had a look around last night and nothing promising showed up. There's an academic interested in aquaculture (D. F. Leavitt) and a maker of block prints. Trying possible f's (Francis, Forrest, Finbar etc) turned up nothing beyond this, but I didn't run through an entire dictionary of baby's names. --Sturm 09:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
    For what it's worth, a Google search with quotes around David F. Leavitt turned up a professor at Roger Williams University who is on the executive board of the Rhode Island Aquaculture Initiative and a artist who did block prints of Charles Lindberg that show up on the vintage auction markets. clariosophic (talk) 13:39, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] Disambiguation redux

    It happened again, this time with David Leavitt (author) as the new copy'n'paste job. I've reverted and left an explanatory note on the user's talk page, pointing them towards the discussion here. --Sturm 20:43, 6 February 2008 (UTC)