You see a lot of this, where someone from a given ethnic origin has a "native" version of their name put on their article even if there's no citable evidence they've ever used it. Do we have a cite for this? First port of call would be the refs, second the talk page.
On 31 July 2017 at 23:03, Richard Symonds <[email protected]> wrote: > The article at > https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/sep/07/radio-review-bbc-asian-network > suggests that she doesn't actually speak Bengali at all... > > Does she even use the Bengali spelling? > > On 31 July 2017 at 21:56, Owen Blacker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yeah, I'm not sure I'd put their name in Bengali into the infobox at all, >> personally. But `other_names` certainly feels more appropriate. >> >> On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 at 10:35 Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 31 July 2017 at 10:24, Gordon Joly <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > Konnie Huq was born in Hammersmith, as was her sister. >>> >>> > Native name: is there something better to describe her name in Bengali? >>> >>> It's her name in her "native" language, where "native" means >>> "associated with the place *or circumstances* of a person's birth"; >>> but it could as well be removed, or moved to the 'other_names' >>> parameter >>> >>> -- >>> Andy Mabbett >>> @pigsonthewing >>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia UK mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
