Talk:J. J. Nickson

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The result of the move request was: not moved. —innotata 19:06, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

J. J. Nickson → James J. Nickson – per his obituary. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:33, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The obituary doesn't say whether he was commonly known as "J. J." or as "James J." On Wikipedia, we generally try to use the name under which someone was most commonly known. The links to this article from other articles seem to refer to him only as "J. J.", so perhaps that was his common name. Also please see verifiability comments below. —BarrelProof (talk) 02:40, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Indeed, the NYTimes is a big fan of using full names. And certain sources such as this obituary do use James. However, the bulk of sources, both on his work at Sloan Kettering and at the Manhattan project, appear to use the initials. A search for the initials combined with "Manhattan Project", for example, comes up with around 3 times as many google results as a search with the full first name. More importantly, at least in my opinion, J. J. seems to be how he referred to himself in a professional capacity, as one can see from such notable documents as the Franck Report. A search on Jstor also indicates that J. J. was how most of his papers and studies were published.--Yaksar (let's chat) 03:08, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Verifiability

The only source cited in this article says nothing about work on the Manhattan project or about work as a medical officer during WWII. Did any of that actually occur? Was it the same person? —BarrelProof (talk) 02:31, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, sorry BarrelProof, meant to respond to this a while back but it slipped my mind. The sources currently in the article don't confirm it, but the stated claims are backed up by some of the sources I listed in the move discussion above. Cheers!--Yaksar (let's chat) 19:10, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]