Talk:Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 14:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

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Portrait of Philip, 1992

• ... that Prince Philip (pictured) was the first member of the British royal family to fly in a helicopter? Source:
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Improved to Good Article status by MSincccc (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.

MSincccc (talk) 18:25, 20 April 2024 (UTC).

• Article qualifies via recently achieving Good Article status. SFNs don't work on this page, but I was able to confirm the hook through the cite in the article itself. Obviously, as a GA about a major figure, it is long enough, well-sourced, and quite presentable. No QPQ is needed—you did this before getting 5 DYKs? Well done. Hook itself is pretty interesting; only suggestion I would give before confirming is specifying British royal family, as many readers would think of other royal families upon seeing the phrase. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 17:36, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

• There we go! Good to go. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 17:43, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

The hook is represented on Page 259 of the source. It is essentially WP:ABOUTSELF since someone is asking him if he was first and he answers "yes". I do not think it is controversial. We have another problem however, the article has recently appeared as a bold link in the news. Unfortunately we may have to reject this nomination because of that. Bruxton (talk) 21:39, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

WP:NEW says it must not have appeared in the last year, and that link was 2021. This is fine.--Launchballer 08:32, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 15 August 2024

this man died one month before his 100th birthday 2600:1005:B01C:E95F:EDA2:1DAC:B597:DF1E (talk) 19:40, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

 Not done This template should be used to request explicit changes, i.e. Please change X to Y. It is not supposed to be used to make incorrect assertions. DrKay (talk) 19:55, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Article title

I don't know if this has already been discussed, but would a name change to "Philip Mountbatten" or "Prince Philip Mountbatten" be appropriate now he is deceased? I saw a similar discussion regarding The Queen Monther which ended up against the move as "The Queen Monther" was a common name because that title has not been reallocated. However this doesn't apply here as Prince Edward is now Duke of Edinburgh. Mn1548 (talk) 15:41, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

I'd suspect that "Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh", or either of those names separately, were the common names, and that "Philip Mountbatten" or "Prince Philip Mountbatten" certainly weren't. Now we have Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, so there might be some room for confusion.

Of the previous holders, Frederick became Prince of Wales (and his son became George III, when the title was merged) and Alfred became Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (and his son Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha committed suicide, so the Dukedom became extinct). Martinevans123 (talk) 17:12, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

But... there was WP:Requested move here on 15 June 2024, which was quickly closed. So not sure why this is being raised again so soon. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:24, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Surname at birth not listed?

I wanted to find out his surname/family name at birth, but the article only lists the one he later took, which I find a bit odd! Brittanica says "Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg" ( https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-duke-of-Edinburgh ). 2A01:C23:6056:2700:E8E5:9715:34E:22AB (talk) 15:41, 22 December 2024 (UTC)