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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Koyaanis Qatsi (talk | contribs) at 13:13, 13 July 2002. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

I'm intrigued as to why the entry for "James Stewart" is redirected here. The man's name was James Stewart, and he appeared in films as James Stewart. Surely Jimmy Stewart is just a nickname, and that's where the redirect should be, not under the proper name. user:Deb

He's credited as James Stewart, but in my experience he's universally known as Jimmy Stewart. See the section "Use common names of persons" under Wikipedia:Naming conventions. --Brion VIBBER, Saturday, July 13, 2002

There was discussion about this somewhere (I don't remember where) and the decision was to house articles at the most popular name with redirects from legal names if necessary. For that reason, Bob Dylan is the article and Zimmerman the redirect; Bill Clinton the article and William Jefferson is not, etc. Koyaanis Qatsi

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