Talk:コロナちゃん

RFD discussion: August–November 2022
I had initially shot this on sight as both SOP and a fictional character name, as described at Requests_for_verification/CJK, but the consensus emerged to run this by RFD, so I'm posting here.

Pinging the editors participating in the RFV thread:.

I continue to think we should this entry:
 * This term Korona-chan refers to a fictional character that is essentially just the personification of the COVID-19 coronavirus. This strikes me as not a lexical item, and something more suitable for an encyclopedia (as I noted in the RFV thread).
 * Literally anything can be personified in Japanese by adding one of the name suffixes, such as the diminutive used for this entry or the more polite and ubiquitous  -- effectively making this entry an SOP.
 * Creating editor brought up the existence of the ja:w:コロナちゃん article on the JA WP as evidence of notability and reason for creating an entry here.  I pointed out that notability is irrelevant for the Criteria for inclusion, whereas evidence of idiomaticity would help to justify having a Wiktionary entry. The JA WP page describes the Korona-chan meme, but does not include anything that indicates idiomatic meanings.

There was also a corresponding page at Corona-chan, which I leave deleted for now -- 1) this was just a soft-redirect romanization entry pointing readers to the lemma at, and 2) this is an incorrect romanization, and should be Korona-chan instead. (The only use for the letter "C" in romaji is in the digraph for the  sound.)  We can restore and move the soft-redirect entry later if needed, depending on the outcome of this RFD discussion for the lemma entry.

Curious what others think. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 19:18, 25 August 2022 (UTC)


 * No additional comments and it's been a couple months. Deleting.  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 17:37, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

RFV discussion: August 2022

 * See Talk:Corona-chan.