Talk:Pandulf Ironhead

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Of course I recognize Pandolfo Testa di Ferro under this solipsistic article title, so I shouldn't care, right. But who, reading Wikipedia, might never find this article?--Wetman (talk) 06:24, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

I can't say I've ever encountered him in English sources called anything other than "Ironhead". The sources listed in the article—Wickham, Leyser, and the Cambridge—as well as Eleanor Shipley Duckett's Life and Death in the Tenth Century all use the English form of his nickname. According to my GoogleBook search G. A. Loud, an eminent authority on southern Italy under the Normans, also uses it in more than one work. He uses it (Pandulf ‘Iron Head’) in his paper "Continuity and Change", JMH (1996). Further, the only Italian work I can say I consulted (the Dizionario) prefers "Capodiferro". Whatever its title, this article needs some work to bring it in line with current Wikipedia standards of prose, sourcing, organisation. —Srnec (talk) 02:45, 18 March 2010 (UTC)