Talk:Blaise Nkufo

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Are we going to change his name because one newspaper writes his name that way? What about all the others that always have used and still use N'Kufo? Knurftendans 09:57, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Are you able to understand German? It is not just an article, but an interview with Blaise Nkufo. He says there: "Mein Name zum Beispiel wird seit Jahren falsch geschrieben, obwohl ich immer sage, Nkufo schreibe sich ohne Apostroph. Trotzdem wird er mit Apostroph geschrieben.". I think that is a clear reason for changing the name. You might also change the name in the Dutch version, as you are apparently Dutch. --Leyo 10:32, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't read the whole article. Seems like you are right to change his name in this case. I will change it for the Dutch version as well. Knurftendans 13:10, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Here is an example that newspapers can write a name wrongly. However, to change this to the correct form we need, for instance, the player himself to say how to write it. We'll keep seeing thousands of names misspelled in Wikipedia because of this fact. Escorpión Canalla 22:56, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with you, Escorpión. We should take exclusively direct quotes (not indirect ones, see below) from the man himself as a basis. So what do we know for sure? In the Dutch interview, he says: "m’n officiële naam is Kufo, zonder N. Zo staat het ook in m’n paspoort" - "my official name is Kufo, without the N. That's also what is written in my passport." Excuse a Swiss guy for translating that to English ;-). Unfortunately the Swiss interview mentioned above (SonntagsZeitung) is no longer available online, so the only thing we have on the Swiss side of the equation is an article in "20min.ch" (ref. 2 in the Wikipedia article) which actually quotes that very SonntagsZeitung interview ("erklärt Blaise Nkufo im Interview mit der SonntagsZeitung"). Well, a quote of a quote is not worth much in my opinion and should be disregarded for the time being, because we have no way to verify it. So ... in summary, I would suggest (1) to keep the current version "Blaise Kufo" as the best we have so far. (2) I also suggest to remove the passage "The birth name is Nkufo, but the player himself prefers the easier-to-pronounce form Kufo", because in neither of the two references does Blaise say anything about "birth name" (what's that, anyway?) or his pronunciation preferences. (3) The 20min.ch reference should be deleted altogether because the critical passages do not stem from original investigative work. Please comment and double-check the Dutch interview for anything I may have missed :-) Holodeck (talk) 01:19, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Okay back at this issue, then. Last night Twente played against Sporting Lisbon (and lost). During that match, this person wore the letters "Nkufu" on his shirt. What does this mean? FC Twente doesn't care how players say their name is spelled? Ciao Mallerd (talk) 00:46, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * What, because a shirt is mis-spelt, we should then change his name? This article details a number of players who have had their names mis-spelt on their shirt. And as sources on the article show, the player has explicitly said his name is spelt "Kufo". GiantSnowman 08:21, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This is not quite the same, Bentley's name was misspelled as a result of a pretty obvious typographical error, Blaise's name, on the other hand, is far more often spelled as Nkufo or N'Kufo and not the other way round. I think this is in a way similar to Emmanuel Amunike's story, when, according to the player himself, the correct spelling of his name was Amuneke, and yet, as far as I can remember, he always had "Amunike" on the back of his shirt, the same spelling was also used by the barcelona official website. Ban  Ray  10:51, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion on his name on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football. --Leyo 07:26, 12 April 2010 (UTC)