Talk:Keough

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History to early 2015[edit]

My head isn't big enuf to follow the raw edit history; here's what i extracted, for the convenience of the next contestant:

Back in '08 (I've included, but not fully inspected, some other conceivably relevant context.) i created (09:57) a Rdr named Keough, pointing to Kehoe, and opined at Talk:Kehoe (surname)#Keough that "There are dozens of articles on people w/ surname Keough, surely worth treating with Kehoe & Keogh even if not same clan."
10 hours later, Redirect fixer summarized "Kehoe has been moved; it now redirects to Kehoe (surname)" and modified the target field in the Rdr accordingly.
10 minutes later, a colleague summarized "update", and changed the content back as i had left it.
6 years or so later, another coll. sum'd "Change target, a bit too far", substituting "Keogh" where "Kehoe" had been.

(Believe me, the history itself doesn't feel that simple!)
In any case, what is now the SIA at Keogh is not organized as a surname SIA, but in fact looks more like a Dab page that is overdue to have the people-bearing-the-surname entries split out. It also only even hints at a second relationship to the name "Keough" by listing one person with that spelling. (I viewed it once more only to confirm my recollection that ~~"Kenough"~~"Keough" was like "Kehoe" in being unmentioned from the See also; perhaps that was what focused me on the long spelling sufficiently to find Matt Keough cowering among the Keoghs.)
I conclude that the Rdr is (whatever was the case when i began it) now incapable of doing its job, and i'm about to start work on replacing it by a Dab for "Keough", with an entry for Keough (surname) -- which new page i'll populate with the bio entries among the 1.6k that the WP-search produces, and (in See also) entries for the other two spellings, Kehoe and Keogh.
--Jerzy•t 07:02, 21 & 05:38, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

My next round of thots is stored off-WP for the time being; my concern continues, but more discussion than i anticipated may be called for.
--Jerzy•t 05:38, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]