Talk:Andreas Papandreou

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Where does this "George Papandreou, junior" and "George Papandreou, senior" convention come from? I've never seen it done this way before. Two google hits: [1] --Jiang

They are two different people with the same name. But they are not "Sr" and "Jr" in the American style. Adam 07:36, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

What do you mean by "American usages"? The British repeatedly and erroneously refer to George H. W. Bush as "George Bush Sr" [2][3]

Jr and Sr is an American usage. The fact that the Poms don't understand how it works would seem to confirm that. Adam

But yes, you are right, they are not Jr. and Sr. However, the current formatting does not appear elsewhere and seems rather awkward. Why not just have Giorgios Papandreou (or George...) and Giorgios Andreas Papandreou (and place a disambiguation note on the top of each)? placing "junior" and "senior" after the name implies they are father and son and the author forgot to capitalize. --Jiang

They are both Giorgios (George in English usage) Andreas Papandreou - that's how Greek family names work, every eldest son is named after his paternal grandfather. I don't think it makes much different what the files are called because people will search for Papandreou if they are looking for any of them. It only implies they are father and son to Americans, who are 5% of the population of the world. And even it does inmply that, so what? Amyone who reads the articles will learn otherwise. Adam 07:52, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Most contributors here are Americans. We don't have a representative cross section of the world's population reading Wikipedia articles on Greek politicians.

Why isn't "Andreas" included in the "senior" article? How about George Papandreou (elder) and George Papandreou (younger)? Don't also assume that people reading these articles have extensive background knowledge on this issue. They should know what their topic is before they begin. --Jiang 07:58, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

But if you call him GP (elder) won't people assume he is an elder (a small tree of the honeysuckle family, sambucus canadensis)?

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