Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bilingual name


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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 22:53, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Bilingual name

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This article on forenames which exist in more than one language is poorly referenced and has been tagged as needing additional citations since 2009. I have added one reference but in general it looks as if "bilingual names" is not a thing that has been identified or studied. I found some references to bilingual names in a place-name context, but not relating to forenames. An editor called it original research on the talk page in 2009, and I would agree. Tacyarg (talk) 13:02, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Tacyarg (talk) 13:02, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Tacyarg (talk) 13:02, 27 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete - nom has it completely right with original research.Ingratis (talk) 17:36, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I cannot find this in the book cited as the reference in the first edit to the article. Uncle G (talk) 19:22, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * In Freakonomics, or in the ref I added to The French in the United States: An Ethnographic Study? Tacyarg (talk) 23:06, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * It's Freakonomics which is in the first edit and that book has a chapter about stereotypical black/white personal names and how these affect matters like treatment of job applications. The topic seems to be the use of personal names which will pass as normal in more than one language.  The most popular case seems to be English/Spanish in the USA.  So you will find information for parents wanting to name their babies with a safe name – see The Best Bilingual Baby Names for Multicultural Families, for example.


 * Keep The title of the page in question has more than one usage. It might refer to personal names which work in more than one language community.  Or it might refer to names of places and things in bilingual communities – see papers such as Minority language policy and bilingual name semiotic landscape in Slovakia or  An orthodox approach towards automated bilingual name placement in large scale maps.  The way that names work in bilingual communities seems to be a thing and so there's scope to make more of the topic and title and so WP:ATD applies, "If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page.  See also WP:IMPERFECT Andrew🐉(talk) 11:17, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete The article is about given names, not geographic names, so both "automated bilingual name placement in large scale maps" and "Minority language policy and bilingual name semiotic landscape in Slovakia" are quite irrelevant, even if the words in the title came up in a Google search. Moreover, both of these refer to how/when two different names should be displayed, not about names that are the same or similar in multiple languages or coincidentally spelled the same despite different etymologies. So if you want to write an article on these distinct topics, that may be plausible, but the entirely of the topic at hand is original research. Reywas92Talk 19:40, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: per nom Sharath Abhivadyah  Talk Page 02:52, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete there might be a plausible article on a different topic with this title (I guessed this referred to individuals who had names in multiple languages, such as an English and a Chinese name), but the content here about lexemes which are names in multiple languages is WP:OR. User:力 (power~enwiki, π,  ν ) 20:33, 3 April 2021 (UTC)


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