Talk:Drew Lewis

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The result of the move request was: Withdrawn due to below proposal. George Ho (talk) 09:29, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment – There's clearly no need for a comma, per
  WP:JR. So why not propose Drew Lewis as the target if you've decided that's more common? Dicklyon (talk) 04:02, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply
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Would you stop misinterpreting it and force Americans to scrap the comma out? I see you still abhor the presence of commas before Jr. or Sr. I could not revert your damages; instead, I went to

WP:RM/TR to have an admin fix your mess. Also, your actions have gotten out of hand. Therefore, I shall report you to ANI. --George Ho (talk) 05:02, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply

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George, I have no particular antipathy toward such commas, and do use them myself sometimes in my own writing. I'm just doing some routine wiki-gnoming, like I do with caps and dashes and trademark and composition styling, and other commas, and such. There was a recent RFC, still at

WP:JR to clearly prefer omitting the commas, so I've been moving a few things in that direction. As far as I know, there is no American vs other issue here. Dicklyon (talk) 06:17, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. Consensus is for the omission of the comma.(non-admin closure) Niceguyedc ^{Go Huskies!} 04:43, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:53, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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  Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Biographies#Implementing_the_.22Jr..22_RfC. You have not even said why you would put a comma into this one. Dicklyon (talk) 05:14, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply
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• (See also discussion at Talk:Robert Downey Jr.#Requested move 04 April 2016. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:56, 4 April 2016 (UTC))[reply]

• Oppose – George knows of the RFC that led to the revision of
  WP:JR. Dicklyon (talk) 14:59, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply
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I found other sources using the comma: book 1, directory, book 3, book 4, book 5, book 6, book 7, book 8, Reagan Library. Alternatively, other sources use "Drew Lewis": book 1, book 2, magazine, book 3, book 4, book 5, National Journal, book 6. George Ho (talk) 19:16, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So? All that demonstrates is that usage is mixed (in which case we default to no comma), and that older sources used the comma a lot and newer ones do not, which was half of the entire point of the RfC and the guideline change. The other half was that this shift in usage has happened across all dialects (including American). Your comment in your original RM above, "Would you stop misinterpreting [

WP:ENGVAR matter at all, and is you who are misinterpreting MOS:JR.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  05:35, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply

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• Oppose per
  MOS:JR. There is no evidence that that current sources overwhelmingly prefer the comma-laden spelling.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  23:04, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose as any comma is not reflected in
  WP:Copyedit#Punctuation. (If you ask me, the full stop/period can be dropped too.) HandsomeFella (talk) 09:35, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose—see SMcClandish's reasoning, to start with. Tony (talk) 12:38, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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