Talk:Q34981

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Removal of unsourced middle name

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I've removed the middle names "Ю́дович" (and English "Yudovich") from the birth name field, as there is no reliable source for it, here or in any of the various Wikipediae. All available sources on it spring up immediately after it was added to the English Wikipedia in 2009 (which would be an odd coincidence considering the author was active from about 1940 to his death in 1992), and it appears to have originated by being added to the Russian Wikipedia in recognition that his father was named "Юда" ("Yudah"); "Ю́дович"/"Yudovich" meaning "son of Yudah". There's no reliable non-citogenesis source that this has ever been Asimov's middle name.

For further info, see the discussion at en:Talk:Isaac_Asimov/Archive_13#Unsourced middle name: a hoax?. TJRC (talk) 18:12, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]