Talk:N. Asokan

Name in the body of the article written in incorrect format

Hello, I am the subject of this article. I am making this request following the guidance in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help

I noticed that my name is written out incorrectly as "Nadarajah Asokan" (i.e., differently from how I write it myself, as "N. Asokan"). The article itself points to the page on my website where I explain how I write my name and why (it is a patrynomic, originally from the southern regions of South Asia and is commonly written in those regions in the way I write it myself).

From the history page, I see that while some editors have made an effort to correct the form (See User:Joseph Petrik's edit and comment from 26 July 2021), but others have repeatedly rolled them back (the latest such rollback is by User:Qwerty12302 from 16 June 2022). These rollbacks are incorrect. I am hereby requesting here that these rollbacks are undone and my name is written in the correct way.

I also see that in User_talk:Qwerty12302 someone had asked User:Qwerty12302 to undo their edit. They responded just with "See MOS:FULLNAME". In MOS:FULLNAME

- there seems to be an explicit provision for using initials, under the "Initials" section, and

- the section on "Culture-specific usages" does mention one type of South Asian patronymic usage (<name> <patronym>) but not the one like mine (<patronymic initial>. <name>). However Patronymic#India does give examples of the latter form, including those of several prominent folks with existing Wikipedia pages like M._Karunanidhi and R._K._Narayan

Request: I would like to request that my name in this article is written consistently in the correct way ("N. Asokan") and User:Qwerty12302's edit of my name be rolled back. Thank you! Nasokan (talk) 08:10, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

The established convention is that the person's full name, without any initials, is written in bold in the lede section of the article (MOS:FULLNAME clearly states that "the subject's full name, if known, should usually be given in the lead sentence"), the "preferred form" (by which the subject is most commonly known) is used as the name of the article, and just the surname (or, in this case, the given name) is used elsewhere in the article. You can see this in action in the two articles you linked: their full names (Muthuvel Karunanidhi and Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami) are written in the lede, their preferred names are used as the names of the articles, and their given names are used elsewhere in the article. --Qwerty12302 (talk | contributions) 08:23, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply and for adding the explanatory note to the article. In the other two articles, the title of the side bar uses the common form with initials and not the full name. I would like to ask for the same to be done for the sidebar in this article. Nasokan (talk) 09:01, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Done. --Qwerty12302 (talk | contributions) 09:05, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Nasokan (talk) 09:12, 16 August 2023 (UTC)