Talk:Rod Macalpine-Downie

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Renaming page from "Roderick Macalpine Downie" to "Rod Macalpine-Downie"[edit]

The name of this sailboat designer seems to be rendered in several different ways throughout Wikipedia. Articles by those who were closest to him, including one by his long-term business partner, Dick Gibbs, consistently style his name as Rod Macalpine-Downie. Please refer to these links:^[1]^[2]

The forename he's known by is Rod, not Roderick. His surnames are hyphenated; the first surname being Macalpine, with no second capitalisation. The second surname is Downie, not Downey or any variant of that.

Aerohydro (talk) 06:10, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

[1] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20190331181426/http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/inmemoriam/16274/macalpine-downie

[2] ttps://archive.ph/cMq7L

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