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What's in a name? Frederick VI

Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:46 pm
by kosboot
Because I uploaded a work dedicated to Frederick VI of Denmark, I made a page for him.
I know that "Frederick VI" is considered his forename, and royalty general have no surname. But IMSLP wouldn't accept that.
I looked at Frederick II and he seems to have had his name purely as a forename (or is it purely a surname?)
So I made "Frederick" his forename, and "VI" his surname. It worked as far as making an entry for him, but of course it's not correct as his surname begins with V."

I don't see a way of a non-administrator correcting this. So....help, please. :)

Re: What's in a name? Frederick VI

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2026 11:12 am
by ScoreUpdater
You need to create a page at Category:Frederick VImanually by copying and pasting the wikicode from the page that already exists.

I have done this, deleted the original category page and fixed the link on Das Schloss am Ätna, Op.95 (Marschner, Heinrich): in the template, "{{LinkDed|Frederick VI||1768|1839}}" should have the name and regnal number in the first argument and an empty second argument.

By the way, there should not be a space between "n.d." and "[1836]".

Regards,

Re: What's in a name? Frederick VI

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2026 1:02 pm
by kosboot
Thanks for the info!