Talk:Early life of Lord Byron

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A fact from Early life of Lord Byron appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 September 2008, and was viewed approximately 5,970 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the young Lord Byron (1813 portrait pictured) shared his mother's violent temper and, during one fit of anger, bit into a saucer?

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Early Life[edit]

I think this pic of Byron in his late teens might go good in the early life section/page. I'll see about adding it if no one objects. I'd like to add the cropped one with a caption. I put the uncropped image here so people can be sure it's really Byron. This note is on both discussion pages.-- I Never Cry 10:26, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Naming question[edit]

Why "George Gordon Byron's early life" and not "Early life of George Gordon Byron", which would match most similar articles? (We do have four other articles matching the "X's early life" pattern.) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 00:49, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(Note - Darwin's early life is called Charles Darwin's education). I would think that the name should go first for disambiguation purposes. There are many pages that have 's instead of "of" in the title. Ottava Rima (talk) 01:01, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that there's a set rule as such. The two Featured "Early life" articles (Joseph Smith, Jr's and John McCain's) both use the "of" form, but I doubt that there'd be heavy opposition to this form except by the hardline MoS-zealots. GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 01:08, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It should probably come up on the MoS talk page and come up with one rule, unless its agreed that both are acceptable. I don't care either way. I use "of" sometimes (Sermons of Dean Swift, for example). Ottava Rima (talk) 01:22, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Lord Byron[edit]

I would have thought the early life of Byron should really be in the main article at Lord Byron. If I'm being stupid please explain why this is the case. 86.153.188.99 (talk) 09:38, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have to agree that a merge makes much more sense than having this (relatively) brief separate article, most of which merely duplicates information given in the main article on Byron.

Also, as to this article's name, there may be some reason for other "Early Life of" articles named as such, but as far as I can see, very little for Byron, as opposed to Lord Byron's early life. Typing "Early life of" in the Search box does not display Byron's name, but requires a further search down through many other such articles.

And thirdly, the word "foot" appears nowhere in this "Early Life" article. Byron was born with a deformed right foot, which, while he became athletic – e.g., playing cricket, and swimming the Hellespont – appears to have always caused him some degree of discomfort and shame. Milkunderwood (talk) 10:46, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]