Talk:Dufour-Lapointe

RFD discussion: August–October 2018
I'm all against double-barrelled surnames. You all should be too. --New WT User Girl (talk) 19:58, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * 🤦 Delete. Per utramque cavernam 20:02, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete both French and English entries. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 22:23, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * weak keep if we have surnames then we should either have all or require that the name is reasonably comm e.g. over 1,000 people have that name. John Cross (talk) 09:16, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Probable keep. I am a long-standing advocate of "all words in all languages". If we allow then we should allow this. SemperBlotto (talk) 09:21, 4 August 2018 (UTC)


 * A possible difference is that certain pairs of given names are historically used together in certain orders (Jean-Paul but not Paul-Jean? Marie-Ange but not Isabelle-Ange). Surnames can combine any old way. Equinox ◑ 16:49, 4 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. I work on sortname redirects on Wikipedia. Right now, I'm doing those for people with the given names "David" and "Anthony", which are relatively small samples of all given names. I have gone through the C's, so the double-barelled surnames remaining for this selection include:


 * Davin-Power
 * Diaz-Infante
 * Dineen-Porter
 * Dunbar-Nasmith
 * Eckersley-Maslin
 * Evans-Bevan
 * Favis-Mortlock
 * Ffrangcon-Davies
 * Folkerts-Landau
 * Fraser-Darling
 * Fraser-Hidalgo
 * Gilbert-Smith
 * Gore-Booth
 * Gregory-Kumar
 * Greville-Bell
 * Guiseppi-Elie
 * Gunn-Johnson
 * Haden-Guest
 * Haig-Thomas
 * Harcourt-Smith
 * Havelock-Allan
 * Hawkins-Kay
 * Heathcoat-Amory
 * Hempleman-Adams
 * Henley-Welch
 * Henniker-Gotley
 * Hoskyns-Abrahall
 * Hughes-Morgan
 * Ish-Horowicz
 * Jackson-Hamel
 * Jones-Roberts
 * Keith-Lucas
 * King-Wood
 * Kirk-Greene
 * Knights-Whittome
 * Lacy-Scott
 * Lee-Ingram
 * Lewis-Williams
 * Liddell-Grainger
 * Lindsay-Abaire
 * Llewellyn-Smith
 * Lopez-Carr
 * Lunn-Rockliffe
 * Manzo-Lewis
 * Mather-Jackson
 * Maybury-Lewis
 * McDonald-Tipungwuti
 * Michaels-Moore
 * Milne-Home
 * Milne-Watson
 * Money-Coutts
 * Morgan-Hewitt
 * Morgan-Mar
 * Moura-Komenan
 * Mourão-Ferreira
 * Murray-Lyon
 * Myerscough-Jones
 * Ofori-Adjei
 * Orme-Johnson
 * Oyite-Ojok
 * Parry-Evans
 * Parry-Jones
 * Penry-Davey
 * Pitt-Watson
 * Price-White
 * Pryce-Jones
 * Randall-MacIver
 * Rankin-Hunt
 * Rhys-Jones
 * Richmond-Peck
 * Rocyn-Jones
 * Rosenmann-Taub
 * Russell-Roberts
 * Rutherford-Jones
 * Saint-Jacques
 * Saunders-Davies
 * Scott-Barrett
 * Scott-Morgan
 * Servan-Schreiber
 * Seth-Smith
 * Shannahoff-Khalsa
 * Shrayer-Petrov
 * Simonds-Gooding
 * Stafford-Clark
 * Steindl-Rast
 * Stevens-Arroyo
 * Stewart-Smith
 * Tangata-Toa
 * Tinling-Widdrington
 * Turner-Samuels
 * Turquand-Young
 * Venn-Brown
 * Waltner-Toews
 * Ward-Steinman
 * Watson-Gandy
 * Whish-Wilson
 * Whitworth-Jones
 * Wikaira-Paul
 * Williams-Ellis
 * Williams-Kenny
 * Wilson-Johnson
 * Woods-Scawen
 * Wreford-Brown
 * Wright-Neville

Since these are surnames of notable individuals, every single one of these would likely meet the criteria for inclusion based on usage in reliable sources, and this would represent less than a tenth of a percent of double-barreled surnames. We don't even have the individual surnames from all of these combinations. With few exceptions, including double-barreled surnames would be a fools errand. bd2412 T 13:10, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Im on it, BD. Easiest way to make buttloads of new entries ever (sans bot) --New WT User Girl (talk) 21:53, 5 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Literally the only purpose of the hyphen is to show that both words are part of the last name. Lexically, it's two separate words. I think we should treat these the way we treat hyphens in attributive noun phrases like "fourteen-year-old boy" or "elephant-dog-monkey monster" (that's the best I can come up with at the moment). Andrew Sheedy (talk) 23:10, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete all of this sort, as per Andrew. --SanctMinimalicen (talk) 21:29, 7 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Triple-barrelled surnames are also known. Thankfully these are rare. DonnanZ (talk) 10:21, 8 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete; I agree these are lexically two words, like Andrew Sheedy says, and even the combination is not notably fixed the way given names can be (as Equinox says). And very many, perhaps functionally almost any, common surnames will be found to be combined with other surnames common in the same area, as BD shows. - -sche (discuss) 16:44, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete such surnames. The analogous toponyms are distinguishable. DCDuring (talk) 19:49, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Deleted. — SGconlaw (talk) 19:24, 20 October 2018 (UTC)