Talk:Yehuda Perah

Surname spelling
Perah is the correct spelling according to WP:HEBREW and apparently the common name judging Ghits (3,700 for Perah, 595 for Perach).

An example of a contemporary English source here calls him "Perah". Number  5  7  14:12, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
 * His name as written on his 1975 Ph.D. thesis in Yehuda Perach. Saw it with me own eyes. It isn't the most modern transliteration of the letter ח but that is exactly how he wrote it. DGtal (talk) 22:48, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
 * P.S. Perach is also the spelling in the Knesset website in English. DGtal (talk) 22:53, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The Knesset website is notoriously unreliable and inconsistent for spelling, so should not be used under any circumstances to determine someone's name. WP:COMMONNAME and WP:HEBREW still apply regardless. Number   5  7  22:57, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
 * It's easy to say an official site is "notoriously unreliable and inconsistent for spelling" but can you prove it?
 * Ghits here are irrelevant if you bother checking the results. Most results are either the transliteration of a street name (no clear majority) and mirrors and deriviants of wikipedia (naturally using current spelling and proving nothing).
 * In the google results you can also find Perach in contemporary and newer publications (The Age 1982, 2004 book in German, a 1980 ZOA convention publication) and the number of real results under Perah is not much greater. WP:COMMONNAME is relevant when a name is common. Here no name is common in English, so the official name spelling should be prefered. WP:HEBREW is relevant for transliteration of Hebrew texts, but here you know how he wrote the name (I can upload the Ph.D. title page if needed). DGtal (talk) 08:15, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, it can be easily proved. Take, for example, the name Ya'akov. The Knesset has multiple varieties of it: Yaakov, Yakov, Yacov and Yaacov. Why not just start an RM if you are so convinced? Number   5  7  19:35, 14 June 2015 (UTC)