Talk:John Michael Bednarek

A fact from John Michael Bednarek appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 February 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that John Michael Bednarek was commander of the First United States Army, prior to becoming the top US military officer in Iraq?

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No cleear WP:COMMONNAME

I just googled these results:

general michael bednarek: 608,000 hits
general john bednarek: 442,000 hits
general john m. bednarek: 770,000 hits
general j. michael bednarek: 152,000 hits
general john michael bednarek: 278,000 hits

In particular, there seems to be "official" documents that refer to him by any of the above names. So we might as well keep the article at the current name, John Michael Bednarek. HandsomeFella (talk) 09:15, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]