Talk:Caterina Fake/Archives/2015

Surname

Is "Fake" her real maiden name? Stedten (talk) 12:31, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm sure the name is Fake. Ausir (talk) 01:59, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

The origin and current pronunciation should be given. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.26.92 (talk) 10:47, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

It has been suggested that it is based on the name of the village of Fazakerkey, in England. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.26.92 (talk) 10:54, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Fazakerley is now a suburb of Liverpool. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.26.92 (talk) 10:57, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

I agree.

According to Caterina.net,

• My Wikipedia entry seems fairly accurate
• “Fake” is my real name. It was anglicized from the German, “Feick” in the 1500s. Fake acquired its present meaning only in the 19th century, afaik. I still maintain my grandfather had the worst of all possible names: Leverne Mucklow Fake. He was a lawyer who once met in court another lawyer named Abel Crook. He also told tall tales so who knows if this is actually true.

~ Caterina.net http://caterina.net/about-2/

--Love Krittaya (talk) 13:52, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Categories

Ms. Fake is in the following categories:

• Businesspeople from California
• Businesspeople from New York City
• Businesspeople from Pennsylvania
• Businesspeople from Vancouver

Typically you're only "from" one place: where you grew up. It feels disingenuous, or at least irrelevant, to list someone as being from every location they worked at for a time. I don't believe these categories were intended to work that way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgpop (talk • contribs) 04:24, 4 December 2015

Hi @Dgpop: The purpose of Categories: at the bottom of an article’s page is to provide links to other articles on Wikipedia on similar topics. This can help both readers who are interested enough and who have read the whole article from top to bottom, and editors who may be looking to see how other similar articles are written/organized. It is also very useful for those trying to verify certain aspects of articles or topics. So when you see that Caterina Fake lived in several locations, you may be curious to find out more about those locations and people who live/lived there, for example. Am I making sense?

As far as Typically you're only "from" one place that is probably true for the vast majority of people, but not necessarily true for some. Wikipedia is global and tries, I think, to be inclusive. Ottawahitech (talk) 00:34, 5 December 2015 (UTC)please ping me

Thank you for the clarification. If "Businesspeople from California" really means "Businesspeople who at some point lived in California," then I disagree with that definition, but I'll drop the issue. Are there examples of other people where every state or country they've lived is listed as a "from" category?Dgpop (talk) 16:53, 5 December 2015 (UTC)