Talk:Pan Xiaoting

Requested move 24 October 2014

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The result of the move request was: consensus to move the page, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 02:46, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Xiaoting Pan → Pan Xiaoting – Standard wiki personal articles apply surname-first format for East Asian people, e.g. Kim Ga-young and Yi Jianlian. – Apipia (talk) 00:36, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * ❌ According to the article she is usually referred to in Western media as Xiaoting Pan. The edit history of the article also shows a similar move was previously reverted. Philg88 ♦talk 05:13, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:23, 24 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Support - per encyclopedic WP:CONSISTENCY (vertical and horizontal), and WP China naming conventions. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:02, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. She is notable for activities in or on behalf of China so we should apply the normal style conventions (WP:NC-CHINA).  —  AjaxSmack   02:07, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Support: Pan is notable in her home country and other countries, as a world champion, not a competitor in only Western-hosted events, under her native name order; Americans and other anglophones tend to know her as Xiaoting Pan simply because of the WP:BIASed preferences of the Western billiards publishing and televising industry. There is no rationale for ignoring the normal naming convention here; this would only happen if Pan were notable primarily to an English speaking audience and always under the Western name format. It takes only seconds to find sources using her proper name order.[//www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=off&q=%22Pan+Xiaoting%22+-wikipedia+-%22Xiaoting+Pan%22]  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  02:02, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.