Talk:John Ferguson McLennan

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Page Title[edit]

The title of this page must be changed to John Ferguson MacLennan, as the a in his name denotes his scottish herative. Mc names are Irish.

Requested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was Not moved. Clearly the Mc/Mac contention of the earlier editor was completely wrong. Non-admin closure per WP:SNOW D O N D E groovily Talk to me 15:12, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

John Ferguson McLennan → John Ferguson MacLennan – The unsigned comment above indicates that the last name should be MacLennan. I myself have no opinion on this. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 04:06, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Strongly oppose. Scots tend to use Mac, Irishmen Mc, but there are exceptions both ways. This is one. The DNB article used as a source spells him McLennan; so does its modern update, the ODNB (and yes, they did rewrite the article); so do the overwhelming majority of the catalog entries for Primitive marriage in WorldCat. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:17, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per PM Anderson's thorough analysis. Jenks24 (talk) 06:50, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose and move to early close The move request is based not on any evidence but on flawed logic. The Mc/Mac distinction is typically an Irish/Scottish one, but migration between the two places (particularly from Ireland to Scotland) means there is a mix anyway, regardless of whether this particular McLennan originated. All evidence points to McLennan being correct.VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 14:59, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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