Talk:Afifa Karam

Requested move 24 April 2020

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 21:09, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Afifa Karam → 'Afifa Karam – Preponderance of WP:RS use the hamza which is an integral part of her name. Elizium23 (talk) 04:45, 24 April 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. buidhe 20:41, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It is not a hamza here but the letter ayn. Just by looking at the first page of results from Google Books I see more results for "Afifa Karam" than "'Afifa Karam". Besides "'Afifa" is not a complete transliteration as it is missing the long -ī-, by all standards. A reference cited in the article also uses "'Afīfah". Per WP:MOSAR we should use the most common transliteration which is the basic one here, "Afifa Karam". It was also the spelling she used on the cover of her own magazine. Gibranist (talk) 10:20, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Gibranist. — the Man in Question (in question)  21:48, 2 May 2020 (UTC)


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