Talk:George Grenville

Biography: Politics and Government Start‑class

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group.

University of Oxford Start‑class

	University of Oxford portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject University of Oxford, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the University of Oxford on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.University of OxfordWikipedia:WikiProject University of OxfordTemplate:WikiProject University of OxfordUniversity of Oxford articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Politics of the United Kingdom Start‑class Top‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Politics of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Politics of the United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject Politics of the United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject Politics of the United KingdomPolitics of the United Kingdom articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

George Greenville is a requested article...I think it's probably someone who wanted an article on this fellow. Should Greenville redirect here, or is that too distinct a spelling to make a redirect? Jwrosenzweig 04:17, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What's an MP?

"a group of young MPs associated with Lord Cobham." What's an MP and should we change the acronym to something most people would understand?
edit: Member of parliament: still, not a phrase some people might be used to. I'll let a registered user decide.

Untitled

I've never seen Grenville's name spelled that way. English spelling was fairly standardized in the 18th century. I see no especial reason for a redirect. john k 07:05, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As additional information, I did two google searches, one that paired "george grenville" with "prime minister", and one that did the same for "george greenville". Grenville scored 18,000+ hits, Greenville 435. I'm personally a little on the fence...if Greenville appears that often, while it's clearly wrong, it's also potentially likely that someone would come here looking for him under that spelling. I have to believe that's why George Greenville is a requested article for the 18th Century. I appreciate your opinion, John, and if no one agrees with me, I'll leave it be, but I'm curious if there are any others with opinions. Also, is there a George Greenville I'm unfamiliar with who deserves his own article (and, perhaps, is the person actually being requested?)? Jwrosenzweig 23:05, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What are the general guidelines for redirects for misspellings? I had thought that we don't have redirects for misspellings, but we obviously have some (Tony Bliar, for instance)...it seems like this is something we ought to have a general policy for, and not decide based on individual cases. john k 23:32, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The guidelines, such as they are, are here: Wikipedia:Redirect. It's not good at distinguishing when we make such decisions. Do you think this is such a case? Jwrosenzweig 23:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've no idea. If you want to make the redirect, feel free. The alternate spelling seems common, even if wrong. john k 02:58, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article is really lacking information regarding his influence on the American colonists. (-history student who must now go elsewhere) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.197.235.12 (talk) 04:25, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]