Talk:Wu (surname)

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There is a proposal to create a precedent that names are not encyclopedic. Articles about names regularly show up on various deletion pages and are summarily deleted. Perhaps - since you've been working on an article about a name, you hold a different opinion that you'd like to express. Please do: Deletion policy/names and surnames SchmuckyTheCat 17:05, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Merge proposal
2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose merge since Ng is also a Hokkien transliteration of the Chinese surname 黄 (Huáng). AjaxSmack 07:24, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Stronger-than-Schwarzenegger oppose because Wu and Ng are not the same at all. Also, both Huang and Ng are notable by themselves, so don't merge them either. I don't know WHAT the nominator was thinking. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 23:36, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Ng is not always a transcription of 吳/吴 or 伍. &mdash; Instantnood 16:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Ng is an important family name and there are many notable members in form of Ng, Ong, Ang, Eng, Ung rather than Wu. &mdash; HenryLi (Talk) 17:33, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Strongly Oppose. 68.48.32.65 16:42, 6 July
 * Strongly Oppose. These are two surnames.Canadianshoper 22:46, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

VERY STRONG OPPOSE The article is Wu_(surname) NOT 姓吳, the article is about a name that sounds like Wooo, not specifically 吳. Cantonese people called 吳 sound like Ng. The main article should be re-written to describe Wu is a common name in China by people speaking Mandarin. Cantonese in China use their native language (Cantonese) when speaking to anyone except migrant workers from non-Cantonese areas where they are forced to speak Mandarin.

Someone called 吳(Wu) compared with someone called 吳(Ng) are typically going to be very different in terms of culture, language, birthplace, ideology, socio-demographic status, amongst other things. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.143.27.18 (talk) 11:37, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Strongly Oppose Not sure what we're merging here. There are many points of confusion presently:

1. different Chinese surnames are lumped together just because they spell the same in English e.g the Wu (with the mouth on top in the Chinese character) vs the Wu (as in the 50,000 tile in Mahjong) etc.

2. the same Chinese surname is classified differently e.g. the the Wu (as in the 50,000 tile in Mahjong, also the surname of the great Ancestor Wu Zixu) is Wu (in China Pinyin), Ng (in Hokkien), Woo (in Hong Kong Cantonese), Ngoh/Ngo/Goh etc. (in Singapore/Malaysia, inconsistency of the English colonial translation)

Since the idea is to be canonical in the Chinese surname, I propose we split by the Chinese PinYin (spell our the Chinese character, to be 100% sure).


 * Oppose. The Ng transliteration is mostly in local use in Southern China and HK. It's not recognizable by the 90% Chinese outside of that region. EJohn59 (talk) 15:14, 19 January 2009 (UTC)EJohn59


 * Oppose, for the variety of reasons listed above. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JGlenn62 (talk • contribs) 23:45, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose ditto to reasons listed above. Kgwu24 (talk) 17:56, 5 February 2009 (UTC)Kgwu24

Vietnamese Versions
Don't think "Go" exists, "Ngo" does in fact exist and not just in North Vietnam this is seen by such people as first president of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem. Also "Ngo" is more closely related to "Ng" than that of "Wu" but these two chinese surnames are also related, though there is a discussion on whether to merge the two.

Vu and Vo are just fine —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.84.54.118 (talk) 13:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC).

Needs alphabetisation
The surname list of modern figures is a bit of a dog's breakfast. I'm not sure what the best arrangement is, given that some names start with Wu and some used the name in the western way, last - perhaps the list should be broken into two parts, and then listed alphabetically by first name? I don't understand Chinese, but I don't know why Billy Goh, Yuki Kure, and a few other names with no mention of Wu or Woo are on this list. If there is a connection, or these people have an alternative name, I think that these should be stated on this page, as per DAB pages, else it just doesn't make sense. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 01:06, 5 December 2020 (UTC)