Talk:Doctor Philastus Hurlbut

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale. [FAQ] Please rate the article and, if you wish, leave comments here regarding your assessment or the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

This article is part of Latter Day Saint movement WikiProject, an attempt to provide comprehensive and detailed information about the Latter Day Saint movement and Mormonism on Wikipedia. To participate in the project, edit this article, visit the List of articles about the Latter Day Saint movement, the project page, and/or join the discussion. For writing guidelines about contributing to the project, you may want to read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Latter Day Saints) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints)

Start

This article has been rated as start-Class on the Project's quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.)

[edit] Name

Is this person's given name really "Doctor", or is that a title? If a title, it should not be part of the name. I don't know much about him and the article was a bit ambiguous about his given names. -SESmith 10:46, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

His given name is actually "Doctor" (it had something to do with being the seventh son of a seventh son I believe) - he wasn't really a doctor at all. There are references to support this - I'll have to dig one of them up. However, the title of the article will obviously continue to cause confusion if we move it back to "Doctor Philastus Hurlbut." Perhaps we should move it to "D. Philastus Hurlbut?" Bochica 14:03, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

It should probably be moved back to Doctor Philastus Hurlbut and then a footnote added to the name "Doctor" explaining right off the bat that this was his given name. In all references I've seen the full name is used, not "Philastus Hurlbut". Snocrates 09:12, 21 December 2007 (UTC)