Talk:George Gordon (Civil War General)
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It seemed POV to place his most infamous attribute after his name in the title of the article. It would be like having an article called "Benedict Arnold (Traitor)" or "Henry Ford (Anti-semite)" or even "Pope Benedict XVI (Hitler Youth)." A person's evil deeds and bad associations are not generally placed in the title of the article. They should properely be in the text, with verifiable sources. They can also be noted through links to the attributes. The only question is what exact title to use, to disambiguate him from all the other George Gordons, such as the British general and the Scottish Lords.
To see the relative importance the rest of the world places on Gordon's association with the KKK versus his role as a Civil War general, I Googled
"George W. Gordon" general -Wikipedia
and got 132 hits, most of them pointing to the individual who is the subject of the article, while a Googling of
"George W. Gordon" "Ku Klux Klan" -Wikipedia
only produced 9 hits.
This is following the practice of the article on Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was the titular head of the organization for several years, whose article does not have the Ku Klux Klan association in the title, but instead the connection is noted in the body of the article. Edison 18:13, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
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