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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
A reason not to use a period is that some middle names are just an initial. An example of this is President Harry S Truman. From what I understand, although the S may stand for different names, it was never settled on one so it's only an initial. My own middle name is just an initial so I write it without the period.
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This is the kind of trivia I like. Use a dot if it's an abbreviation of a name, but no dot if it IS the name.
B J Honeycutt, for a fictional example. Although I see that Wikipedia does not follow this sensible usage. Perhaps you could persuade the editors of that page to amend it?
