User talk:Gplittle

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith ... --Smkolins (talk) 11:02, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Fellow Bahai here. Just saying Hello :) Binaryhazard (talk) 04:41, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Bahai apostrophes
Hi GP,

Re Baháʼu'lláh, the first mark is not the punctuation mark apostrophe, but the letter hamza. The second is a punctuation mark, just a contraction, and unlike the first is not pronounced. Rather like ʻAbdu'l-Bahá -- the ayin is pronounced, the apostrophe is not. Writing hamza and apostrophe the same is as misleading for knowing how to pronounce a name as writing ayin and apostrophe the same.

Baháʼí orthography has a raised comma for the letter, but WP MOS and TA require a straight ASCII apostrophe for punctuation and quotation marks. On the Bahai link you sent me, they use curly and straight marks indiscriminantly. If it looks a little funny, so does "a Baháʼí's position", which also distinguishes the hamza in the name from the apostrophe in the -'s. Also, some of our sources write "Baháʼulláh", retaining only the hamza.

BTW, another change is hard formatting for the underscores they're copy-paste friendly, as in G͟husn-i-A'zam. (I suspect that's an ayin in the A'zam, but am not sure so I'm leaving it alone for now.)

As for searching, we always have RD's from ASCII apostrophe and without accent marks to enable this. That works the same whether the two marks are mismatched, are Semiticist hamza, curly quote marks or whatever, and also for <á> etc.

If I've broken a link, please let me know and I'll see what I did wrong. — kwami (talk) 21:20, 4 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I don't know how to hold a discussion in a Talk page. --Gplittle (talk) 21:48, 4 December 2019 (UTC)