Talk:Prince Laurent of Belgium

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Untitled[edit]

This page currently crashes my browser, which seems so far to be more a problem of my browser than the page; but really, I'm mostly just creating this talk page so I can add it to my Watchlist without viewing it. -- John Owens 01:03 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC)

Hm, it didn't crash my Mozilla 1.2.1. There were a lot of spaces at the beginning of each paragraph, but otherwise nothing that set the article apart from others. I've taken the spaces out - does it work now? --Camembert

Works fine for me now, thanks. Probably has something to do with using <pre> within <div>, or in some way that it chokes on. -- John Owens 01:12 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC)

MyRedDice, moving "Laurent, Prince of Belgium" to "Laurent Marie" comments: "change name - people get first names and surnames, unless there's ambiguity or we don't know..."

Articles should be named according to Wikipedia naming conventions
For people known by their titles, this means their article name will include their title
"Marie" is not this man's surname. -- Someone else 20:18 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) doesn't talk about titles specifically.

He was christened Laurent Benoit Baudouin Marie ? Did he change his name on marriage?

No, one is not christened with a surname, one is christened with Christian names! -- Someone else 20:43 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC)

I'll mention it on the naming conventions page. I'm not fussed - I'll probably move it back soon. Martin

You may want to have a look at Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(names_and_titles) -- Someone else 20:43 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC)

You've moved it back already! Splendid. :) btw, I found Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (monarchs), but I couldn't figure out what was concluded, and whether it applied to monarchs where we know the surnames, like Elizabeth Windsor or Elizabeth Tudor (yes, I know those aren't there...) Frankly I prefer Elizabeth Windsor to messing around with Elizabeth I, Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I (England) or whatever - it just seems simpler! Martin

Elizabeth Windsor is not an option. The only way to deal with monarchs who are known exclusively by title and who often never had a surname is to use title. Queen Victoria's name for example, was Victoria Wettin. Her Royal House was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. She is known universally as Queen Victoria and nothing else. The same is true of any monarch. STÓD/ÉÍRE 21:05 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC)

Except for many monarchs there is no agreement as to what that surname might be, and general agreement on what country they ruled. -- Someone else 20:43 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC)

It was agreed ages ago after a long discussion that the form {prince/ess} {name} of {state/title} should be used by prince/esses other than heirs to the throne. STÓD/ÉÍRE 21:07 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC)

Mother's pre-marital style[edit]

Surtsicna, in your recent objection to including Queen Paola's sourced maiden style (see her Wiki bio), you mention that I have failed "to accept a reasonable compromise". I do not intend to do so, but cannot find any "compromise" between your edits or rationale and mine that you have proposed and that I have rejected. Please point it out so that it can be considered as an alternative to edit-warring? Thanks. FactStraight (talk) 07:16, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I was referring to this. It honestly seemed reasonable; Paola gets her title, which is what you want, and Albert gets his, which is what I want if Paola gets hers. You rejected that. Is there a reason why you find this unacceptable? Surtsicna (talk) 20:52, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Interviews[edit]

He recently gave a very controversial interview. I am not going to link it in here, but I believe that this should be considered for inclusion into the main article eventually; it's the role of Belgium's colonial past. 2A02:8388:1641:8380:1535:595B:9280:DF61 (talk) 17:40, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]