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Errors with "In the news"

(reposting from Talk:Main Page --Masem (t) 17:47, 12 September 2021 (UTC)) Can you link Amanda Holden as Amanda Holden (writer). There's a very well known celebrity in the UK by that name and I'm sure most British visitors are being misled seeing the name initially!.† Encyclopædius 17:41, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

I've added her middle initial. 331dot (talk) 17:49, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

As 331dot is aware, I removed the initial but have reverted that change having been made aware of this discussion. Do we have any precedent set for resolving ambiguity at ITN? As far as I can tell, this individual didn't use their middle initial (it's not used in the article, nor its sources, no in the Google results I found) and so using it takes us away from the commonly accepted name for an individual; I don't think using a non-standard version of their name is a suitable disambiguator – but other than leaving it ambiguous (my preference in the absence of other solutions) I don't know what I'd suggest! MIDI (talk) 18:05, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

I remember when there was a notable animal that died that shared the same name as a celebrity that was still alive, we added the disambiguation. I also think in the cases of singular names of animals or other living organisms that we've sometimes added the parenthetic disambiguation term. --Masem (t) 18:08, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

I thought the initial would be less disruptive but I'm okay with the disambiguation. 331dot (talk) 18:10, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

I honestly dont think it's a major issue. Readers figure it out and know name are not always unique. A less prominent Bobby Brown was posted earlier this year with no qualifier, and there was no complaints.—Bagumba (talk) 18:15, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

It's clearly misleading when she was never known as Amanda J. Holden. That is why we have WP:COMMONNAME. It jumped out a mile when I saw it. Spicemix (talk) 18:23, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

(ec) The living Amanda Holden is probably more prominent, should we be suggesting on the MP that they have passed? 331dot (talk) 18:25, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Then be consistent if BLP is the concern. It's demeaning for WP to imply that less "prominent" people are not important. Its either a BLP issue for all living people when an RD of the same name is posted, or it isn't a BLP issue for any.—Bagumba (talk) 18:47, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

I'm not trying to argue for non-consistency. We've already judged someone to be more prominent by assigning the undisambiguated name to someone. There is a difference between prominence and importance. 331dot (talk) 19:04, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

But aren't you proposing that its a BLP issue only for a more prominent person, i.e. primary topic, but it's ok "suggesting" that a non-PT might have died?—Bagumba (talk) 19:15, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

No. I was responding to a specific concern. If the concern was turned around, I would suggest the same. 331dot (talk) 19:19, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. If there is consensus to adding qualifiers, they should be codified at WP:ITNRD. The de facto practice for people is that we have not added them.—Bagumba (talk) 19:31, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Tomorrow's OTD

• The 1971 entry is the only one written in the present tense. Please change "ends" to "ended". Jmchutchinson (talk) 13:33, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

   Done Mjroots (talk) 18:20, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

  Also "ordered" and "died". 71.175.88.163 (talk) 22:44, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

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