User:Donald Trung/Yansheng Coin/Why I don't use the term "Yansheng Coin" in the content I add

On Wikimedia Commons User:Baomi created the category Chinese numismatic charms to organise the images that he wished to utilise for the (Mandarin) Chinese Wikipedia article 花錢, Baomi asked me if I had any images of these Chinese numismatic charms and I simply said that I don’t as I don’t collect them (I like collecting official government-made currency and seem to have a natural aversion against these types of Chinese numismatic charms, in fact when people call real, actual cash coins “Chinese (good) luck(y) coins” it causes me to become irritated). As I was researching these charms for Baomi since almost every source I know of that discusses the monetary history of China also seems to cover a lot (if not more) of the history and taxonomy of Chinese numismatic charms, I used sources like David Hartill, Vladimir Belyaev's Charm.ru, Gary Ashkenazy's Primaltrek / Primal Trek and many others. When I by coincidence clicked on “Yansheng Coin” on the English Wikipedia I found that this was in fact the page that covers Chinese numismatic charms, now my issue is that Chinese sources themselves usually refer to “Yansheng Coins” as “Flower coins”, the term “Yansheng Coins” is used but a lot less frequently and from what I can tell from David Hartill, Gary Ashkenazy's Primaltrek / Primal Trek, Vladimir Belyaev’s Charm.ru, Etc. is that “Chinese charms” seems to be the WP:COMMONNANE for these objects. As I will mostly be importing ALLZZZ DA INFO from Gary Ashkenazy's Primaltrek / Primal Trek regarding these subjects into the article (which consists roughly about 80% of Gary Ashkenazy's Primaltrek / Primal Trek website) I will tend to use the name used by the sources I find rather than a name I seem to mostly find on Wikipedia, it is not that the term “Yansheng Coin” is incorrect, it’s simply that this name is used less frequently in many English language publications such as Gary Ashkenazy's Primaltrek / Primal Trek and others. As “charms” is also a more descriptive title than “Yansheng Coins” I prefer it. Many other sources refer to them as either “Chinese amulets” or “Chinese coin amulets”, a term also used by former Dutch Wikipedia moderator (or sysop) Quistnix. As the terms do not seem to be consistently applied I will just use the name the source provides which in the case of Gary Ashkenazy's Primaltrek / Primal Trek is “Chinese Charms’.

Here on Wikimedia Commons I prefer to use Gary Ashkenazy's Primaltrek / Primal Trek term “Chinese charms” or Baomi’s preferred term “Chinese numismatic charms”. --Donald Trung (talk) 06:25, 20 April 2018 (UTC)