"This article is not supposed to be a biography. The woman in the picture is not notable. The picture itself is."
"Whatever this article once was, it is now serving as a biography of a woman who was the subject of an iconic photograph. As such, we should name the article based on the name of the person."
Talk:Afghan Girl three 2010 sections on refactoring into two articles with no consensus, followed by 2015 note
"Hello everyone, I found a wikidata item for the individual via the Wiki Women in Red project, so made a draft for a page for the person Sharbat Gula before I saw this conversation. I figure since five years have gone by there was room for a page for both the artwork and the individual, but I thought it important to leave a note here too."
Should discuss at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography (with headsup at lots of other Wikiprojects). I think this type of headnote is a travesty and I would support a general deprecation of hatnotes in favour of footnotes to explain non-English personal-name practices.
