Forum:Royalty- Surname encoding

Surveying Genealogy sites, general practice seems to be that when searching for a Royal, the country name is used in place of surname. EG- familysearch you put Louis for first name, France for last, and you get the Kings listed.


 * I propose we follow this tradition, using the domain of the title of the greatest magnitude as the last name. The En.wikipedia will be the authority on article name for the base article.  So for example, the french article on William the conquerer might list Guillaume I de Normandie in the infobox header, but the article name would be William I, King of England (1027-1087)/fr and the Surname (mostly invisible but for catting and search purposes) would be "England".

The rationale for kingdom of greatest magnitude is that for example, you won't find William the conquerer like you can find the Louis's due to non uniform application. Knowlegable folks would know to put Guillaume for first name, and Normandie for last. But though william was a duke of normandie his greater title was King of England. Similarly, though everyone knew William as Guillaume, the only authority we have for likelihood of searchers using a name is how en WP names the figure. So we use that as the authority.

Can anyone propose alternate ways we should consider for doing this, or is everyone ok with this?


 * ~  Ph l o x  00:03, 14 November 2007 (UTC)