User talk:Rhemmiel

Cuneiform names
I reverted your good-faith edit to Belshazzar but I'd like to make my point a bit clearer here in case there'd be conflict. Firstly, you didn't back up the translated rendition you provided (bēl-šar-uṣṣur) with a source, whereas the one currently in the article (Bēl-šar-uṣur) is sourced. I don't think your assertion that "scripts without letter-case distinctions are transliterated in lowercase" is supported by the sources, a majority of the sources I've seen concerning Babylonian figures capitalize their transliterated names. You may well be technically correct, but I think we need to follow WP:RS in how these things are handled.

You also added the cuneiform in unicode, and while the spelling you used was supported by the source you added, the source gives the written form as "mdEN-LUGAL-ÙRU", not using the unicode cuneiform signs. Though your rendition is correct, I think just adding the signs based on that qualifies under WP:OR. Unless there is a source that gives the signs as presented, it's problematic to add. Also note that your source for this gives his name as Bel-šarra-uṣur (capitalized), rather than the rendition you added ("bēl-šar-uṣṣur", a completely different spelling). The cuneiform Akkadian signs in unicode are also problematic given that the unicode rendition follows the signs from the Sumerian / Old Akkadian period. The signs changed considerably from this time until Belshazzar's Neo-Babylonian time (see here), so using the unicode rendition is problematic and misleading given that his name was not written in that form. This is also not to mention the issues that crop up from there usually being multiple attested spelling variants of ancient Mesopotamian names (Nebuchadnezzar II's name is for instance attested both spelled concisely as just Nabû-kudurri-uṣur but also in the form Na-bi-um-ku-du-ur-ri-u-ṣu-ur). Ichthyovenator (talk) 13:34, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

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