Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160124153152/@comment-24894325-20160613211049

Thank you for the reply and explanation.

I have realised since the original post that the example that brought me to this topic (Elisabeth of Austria) is not, in fact representative of the topic because she did not appear in the story.

There are, however, multiple other royalties and noblepersons who do appear in their respective stories. Two examples from above are Alexandra (The Wages of Sin) and Rupert (The Roundheads) (the latter has a second page Rupert (Dog of War!) that needs merging). Another very recent example is Rudolph (Death and the Queen). For all of them, the use of the dab term seems to be unnecessary because their full names are given in the stories and uniquely define them: Alexandra of Russia, Rupert of the Rhine and Rudolph of Goritania. In case of Rupert, the use of dab terms prevented identifying characters from two different stories as one person and resulted in two unrelated pages.

Thus, I am still proposing to make an explicit exception for royalty and nobility from the policy: In most cases, you should title an article with the first and last name of a character. The full name of Rupert of the Rhine is Rupert of the Rhine. He appears in two stories. His full name is stated in one of them. The fact that his full name does not include a last name, is not a reason to use a dab term.

PS As for Elisabeth of Austria, I've solved the problem by brute-force counting. The name Elisabeth is mentioned in the story only 2 times, whereas her nickname Sisi is mentioned 7 times. Hence, the most common name, which also happens to be unique, is Sisi.