Template:Romance name

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This is a Romance language name; the family name is {{{1}}}, not {{{2}}}.

[edit] Usage

This template is for multi-part Romance language surnames that people from other parts of the world could misinterpret as a middle name + surname. Usage example:

{{Romance name|de Anza|Anza}}

It should be placed at the top of the article, before the article introduction, page-top image or sidebar infobox, but after any page-top templates such as dispute or maintenance tags, disambiguation links/templates.

This template can be used for any Romance language name of this sort (l'Enfant, Villa Lobos, San Giacomo, di Nunzio, what have you). It should not be used for non-Romance names, such as the spelling of Scottish/Irish patronymics with a space (Mac Dougal, ní Bhraonain, etc.), Germanic multipart names (von Braun, van der Graff, ten Dorn, etc.) Use other (if necessary create new) templates for such names, by language or a larger classification, and link to them here and to each other with similar documentation.