Talk:Mark.

How can this be an abbreviation of Mark? It's the entire word plus a dot. Equinox ◑ 18:52, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July–October 2019
There's no need for the dot at the end of this. --Pious Eterino (talk) 17:39, 13 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Any uses I found through GBS (as supposed abbreviations of “Gospel of Mark”) were scannos, so Delete. --Lambiam 08:32, 15 July 2019 (UTC)


 * To the best of my knowledge the dot in an abbreviation stands for omitted letters. It isn't just there for decoration. So delete. Equinox ◑ 06:46, 20 July 2019 (UTC)


 * , who had his original middle name “Willoughby” legally changed to the one-letter name “W”, used to “abbreviate” it as the middle initial “W.”, following the algorithm of representing an initial by taking the first letter of the name and appending a period. --Lambiam 12:34, 20 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes, I think I also remember a name from acting/TV production that had X as the middle name (because of union laws that forbid two people from having the same name): I can certainly imagine naive computer software having a rule that says "abbreviate as first letter, then a dot" but that's really a software error more than a traditional usage that humans would employ...? Equinox ◑ 17:40, 20 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Send to RfV. If it doesn't exist, then there is no need to debate whether it should. bd2412 T 14:22, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 19:56, 8 October 2019 (UTC)