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Paget's 1904 drawing

Am I alone in looking at this drawing and seeing it as a drawing of Clive Merrison? Either it is amazing how much Clive resembles the drawing or it questions if this is really a 1904 drawing? I assume we all know that Clive Merrison has portrayed Holmes on radio more completely than any other actor? — Preceding unsigned comment added by PeterM88 (talk • contribs) 07:14, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

So Paget not only predicted the future, but he could also see how someone would look on the radio. Most singularly unique! ;)

Surname

Talk:Arthur Conan Doyle/Archive 1#Doyle or Conan Doyle? (2006–2008)

Talk:Arthur Conan Doyle/Archive 1#Conan Doyle or Doyle? (2007–2009)

In effect I continue those two old threads. The rest of this note (including my signature and timestamp) is copied from Talk:Adrian Conan Doyle. -P64 (22:05)

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We call him Adrian Doyle here, Conan Doyle there, Doyle elsewhere, and instruct to sort by 'Conandoyle'. Libraries make Doyle the surname.[1]

In the father's biography we provide some discussion Arthur Conan Doyle#Name with the weight of evidence or practice heavily on the 'Doyle' side, and we use 'Doyle' in running prose. But again we instruct to sort by 'Conandoyle'. Libraries make Doyle the surname.[2]

The Sir ACD Literary Estate official website[ uses 'Conan Doyle' on the homepage, where it does not use 'Doyle' alone.[3] The NYT obituary headline writer uses 'Conan Doyle' but the text uses 'Lady Doyle'.[4]

--P64 (talk) 21:49, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

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"The Sir ACD Literary Estate" isn't connected to the Doyle family heirs and shouldn't be taken as any definitive statement (and even if there were an official website, it could use both depending on the copywriter; not everyone gets concerned about the same matters). Without wanting to detour the ACD copyrights have been a source of dispute for decades ultimately stemming from different children of ACD and various sales & reclaims, and that site is based on an ownership claim stemming from a 1970s sale outside the family (and disputes the subsequent termination of transfer). Timrollpickering (talk) 23:05, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Just to ensure we are consistent, if nothing else, I've put the surname only mentions to Doyle, rather than Conan Doyle. It's a moot point which should be the preferred style, but we do need to stick to one over the other. Given what we say in the name section, Doyle seems to be as good a place as any. - SchroCat (talk) 07:42, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

I made the same change, among other things, at Adrian Conan Doyle. Thus Arthur and Adrian would be listed side-by-side in categories Template:C and Template:C --but Sir Arthur is exclusively Scottish. Anyway they both show up under D in most categories --as daughter Jean Conan Doyle does not, as we explain in her lead.

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By the way, the US national library reports many "Sources" of surname usage for Arthur and his Lady.[5]

--P64 (talk) 20:08, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Edit request

Template:Edit semi-protected Arthur Conan Doyle is distantly related to Bram Stoker the author

80.44.233.127 (talk) 17:29, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Not done: please make your request in a "change X to Y" format. Also, you need a reliable source for this. Wikipedia is not a reliable source, but you may be able to find the source of that claim in the references for that article. Thanks, Celestra (talk) 19:55, 20 November 2013 (UTC)