Talk:William George Malone

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the William George Malone article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Biography: Military / Politics and Government

	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
	This article is supported by the military biography work group (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group (assessed as Low-importance).

New Zealand: Politics Low‑importance

	New Zealand portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New Zealand, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of New Zealand and New Zealand-related topics 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.New ZealandWikipedia:WikiProject New ZealandTemplate:WikiProject New ZealandNew Zealand articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the New Zealand politics task force (assessed as Low-importance).

Military history: Biography / South Pacific / World War I

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles

Associated task forces:
/
	Military biography task force
	Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history task force
	World War I task force

Additional information:
/
	This article has passed an A-Class review.

William George Malone has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 29, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
June 20, 2013	WikiProject A-class review	Approved

Current status: Good article

Untitled[edit]

The suggested commercial website is not a commercial website, but a direct copy from the official New Zealand website —Preceding unsigned comment added by MichaelFreeman (talk • contribs)

It's not a commercial website, true, but there is a copyright notice at the bottom of the page.

The original version of this biography was published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Volume Three (1901-1920), 1996 © Crown Copyright 1996-2003. Published by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington, New Zealand. All rights reserved. -- Vary | Talk 05:16, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Switch with the director[edit]

More articles link to the director of the same name than this disambiguation - shouldn't the director Malone have the main article and this fellow have "William Malone (soldier)"? --Gafaddict 07:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see that the article was originally William Malone, and was then moved to the current title to "make way for a dab page". Disambiguation by adding a middle name is not the way to go about this. The page should be listed by the name that the person was known as, and if disambiguation is needed, then a descriptor is added in parentheses. So was he known as William George Malone or William Malone? Schwede 66 19:31, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure which is best to use. A lot of my sources do refer to him as William George Malone on first mention; some then revert to Malone or in case, William Malone. Others use W. G. Malone or William Malone on first mention. I'm inclined to go with William Malone with (soldier) as a disambiguator. He is named in this way in the news article that is referenced in the article, which to me suggests this is the common name in usage. Zawed (talk) 09:26, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]