| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | OK - I was thinking about adding this guideline to the guidelines currently under discussion:
"When a person uses both a formal and informal version of their first name, use the formal version for the common name (example: James Stewart not Jimmy Stewart)."
What does everyone think - do you agree with it? Do you think it's worth adding? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,480 |
| | Posted: | | | | I voted for "take each case as it comes", but my preferred choice would have been to use the most credited form. In the case of Jimmy Stewart, he was almost always credited as James Stewart, so I would use that. | | | ...James
"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | It does seem like most people agree with you. We can leave it a bit longer to see if there's any change but it looks like there'll be no need to add it to the guidelines. |
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