Talk:William Johnson (Medal of Honor)

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Misnamed article[edit]

William Johnson is not a "Medal of Honor", he is rather a "Medal of Honor recipient." Article was correctly named before and should be changed back. Student7 (talk) 14:07, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The parenthesis does not infer what he is, its what he is known for!. There is a reference to this in WP:MOS somewhere and I will find it and post it here in a few minutes. Also, there are a lot of Medal of Honor recipient articles that are disambiguated and this is to allow consistency between them. The vast majority already said Medal of Honor so I changed the rest to the same. I really don't have a preference so if you want to raise the argument higher than this talk page I understand and I can provide you with a listing of all the disambiguated ones (both the ones that are already created and the ones that have yet to be created) with Medal of Honor, soldier, sailor, etc if you need it. If you do you should present it to either the WP:Biography talk page or the talk page for WP:MOS. Just leave a message here or my talk page if you need anything else. --Kumioko (talk) 14:51, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here it is; Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#people. Its a little vague and could stand to be clarified but basically the gist is to make the disambiguation only long enough so that the reader can distinguish between different people with the same name. Thats why we only need to say Medal of Honor, vice Medal of Honor recipient. We arent saying he "IS" the medal, were just clarifying the subject. I hope this helps but again please let me know if you have any more questions. --Kumioko (talk) 15:02, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]