Talk:Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Chinese game show)

Requested move 19 November 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. The consensus is that the proposed title is the common name. Other variants created as redirects. Jenks24 (talk) 09:17, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Bǎi Wàn Zhì Duō Xīng → Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Chinese game show) – The show has an English name, see, why not use it? If that fails, at least get rid of the tone marks (Bai Wan Zhi Duo Xing or Bai wan zhi duo xing or Baiwan Zhiduoxing or Baiwan zhiduoxing). BTW, the show's 3 references include Chinese wikipedia (which is unsourced) and a BBS forum thread, just great. Timmyshin (talk) 05:20, 19 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Oppose the titlecard says "Who Deserves to be a", so Who Deserves to be a Millionaire? would fit better -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 10:15, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment that alternative appears to fail Wp:UCN. Reliable English sources don't refer to the Chinese show by that name; when reliable English sources do write "Who Deserves to be a Millionaire" they are talking about other things (e.g. the "all proceeds go to charity" episode of the Nigerian show). 210.6.254.106 (talk) 02:48, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * It is the title card, of which "who deserves to be" is in English -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 05:25, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Support part of the franchise. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:54, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak support as part of the franchise, but even a couple of English-language sources using the title-card version would trump that, and the lead probably has to be one of those explanatory ones, like "Who Deserves to be a Millionaire? (Chinese: [actual Chinese characters here], Bai wan zhi duo xing), better known as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – China, is [blah blah blah]." Agreed about the tone marks; while these are normally used for Vietnamese and some other languages, it's not conventional to use them for Chinese in general-audience works intended for English-language readers; seems to be a CSL thing. It's a case of "hyper-correctness", like printing German text in Fraktur just to be "über-German".  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  03:40, 28 November 2015 (UTC)


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