Familypedia talk:Surname category template

Using Headings
Suggestion to use the following evel 2 headings. ==Alternative Spellings== ==Meaning/Origin== ==Cultural Context== to replace ==Meaning== ==Root== ==Variants==

I think that changing to these headings is a good idea. Having been doing some editing on Wikipedia, I have noticed that editorially they tend to frown on headings with very little under them. They seem to prefer to have the topic in a paragraph, and only when the content becomes significant in volume do they allow the creation of a heading. So one line does not justify a heading, but three paragraphs may. They also like to have the main description under the level 1 heading at the top of the page.

An example alternate layout would hence be:

=Kahn Surname= The family name is deried from a title meaning ruler, and having an origin in Mongol and Turkish history and language. It was a title used by rulers and nobility (sometimes spelled as xan, han). A ruler with the title of "Khan" controled a khanate. See Khan in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan).

As a family name, Khan can have one of several connotations. All are related.


 * The term is used almost universally as a surname, or almost a suffix by people of Pashthoon (Wikipedia) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashthoon) (Pathans) ethnicity living in Afghanistan, India and bordering areas of Pakistan. In this way, it is often a synonym for Pashthoon/Pathan.
 * It is also a family name for people that were bestowed the title of Khan or Khan Bahadur either by the Raj British Raj (Wikipedia) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British).

Alternate Spellings

 * Xan (Chinese)
 * Han (Turkish)

Yewenyi 16:19, 18 Mar 2005 (EST)