Talk:סעלענאַ

RFV discussion: September–November 2012
It seems to be just a transcription of Selena and not an actual Yiddish name. --WikiTiki89 (talk) 09:02, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

פּאָלעט
Same as above. Seems to be nothing more than a transcription of Paulette. --WikiTiki89 (talk) 09:05, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Do you think that it's not attestable? CFI requires one use in Yiddish. Whether it comes from a transcription or not is irrelevant. --Yair rand (talk) 20:48, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Even if it is referring to an American Celebrity? I'm pretty sure transcriptions from other languages don't count as being part of a language. --WikiTiki89 (talk) 21:20, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * If it refers exclusively to a specific individual, it might fall under the "Names of specific entities" policy of "many should be excluded while some should be included, but there is no agreement on precise, all-encompassing rules for deciding which are which". It doesn't make any difference what the origin is. If it's used in a language and it's attested, it's part of the language. --Yair rand (talk) 21:28, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * IMO, a citation is a citation. Even a transcription. That said, I doubt I could find one. --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 01:27, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * We've discussed whether to include transcriptions of given names and surnames as words in the transcribed-into languages. I don't recall that we had any resolution. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 22:24, 20 September 2012 (UTC)


 * A number of Japanese and Chinese one-off transcriptions of foreign personal and place names (like one of Selena/Serena) were, IIRC, deleted... I haven't had any luck finding the discussions; Eirikr and/or Haplology might recall them. - -sche (discuss) 22:58, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Transliterations of given names used in normal text count as words, in my opinion - while phonetic transcriptions used in dictionaries don't count - but I think the citations should be about three different persons. User Diego Grez admitted copying the translations of Selena from the links of the Wikipedia article about Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, without knowing the languages in question... I wish people would never do that. --Makaokalani (talk) 15:17, 21 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Deleted. - -sche (discuss) 03:56, 28 November 2012 (UTC)