Talk:Vicente Martinez Ybor
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I've redirected Vincente M. Ybor to this location to reflect the naming convention for the man at his memorial in Ybor City and in city of Tampa and state of Florida publications. There is debate about whether the correct name is Vincente or Vicente; in the guise of being bold I've selected Vicente as the more appropriate, and included the full name Martinez instead of the initial M., insofar as when I googled the name with the M. in it the first things to appear were Wikipedia itself, followed by a series of pages that cribbed their info from Wikipedia, and then a couple other pages, including a blog from Sticks of Fire, which spelled the name multiple ways within the same blog. The Ybor City Museum State Park refers to the man as Vicente Martinez Ybor, not to Vincente or to Vicente M., based on a review of their website and a telephone call this morning. I realize this is dangerously close to original research, but really, it's just a name. The discussion page at Vicente M. Ybor included a query as to whether the correct name was Vincente M. Ybor or Don Vincente M. Ybor. In this case Don was not a name but an honorific. Debate is still open on the issue of Vincente v. Vicente but I've chosen to follow the more common local convention. The issue of hyphenization is also up for debate; the Tampa Trib ran his obit in 1896 as Vicente Martinez-Ybor, and the bust of him at the state museum lists his name as such, but in most other cases the museum documents do not hyphenate. It's really a matter of personal preference I suppose; does Wikipedia have a preferred convention for Hispanic names?Thehappysmith 12:27, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Also I've added more info to the article, but hopefully just to get it started. Thehappysmith 13:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rewrite
This article contained a lot of irrelevant information and peacock language, so I was going to tag it for rewrite, but decided to rewrite it myself instead because somebody has to do it. Still needs sources though. - ∅ (∅), 01:03, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
