Talk:El Nino

I think it should stay. Who's with me, WHO'S WITH ME!?!?!?!?--Danno918 23:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

El Nino
Spelling mistake - especially the Spanish entry. SemperBlotto 18:47, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Removed the Spañish. :p DAVilla 21:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Isn't this close enough to be redirected? Someone searching for the term may not have the ability to type in the special character, after all. bd2412 T 21:00, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Not in my opinion. If the English can't be attested as an alternate spelling then the page should be deleted. Not being able to type special characters is a broad enough problem to be addressed through the search functionality. Then we might have to reconsider even the Old English redirects. DAVilla 21:07, 3 October 2006 (UTC)


 * That doesn't address the technical limitation, however, of not being able to find the entry you are looking for. For the record, I don't like the method currently being used for Old English. But for this entry, I am pretty sure I've seen it without the tilde often enough to merit inclusion as a "common misspelling."  --Connel MacKenzie 06:46, 4 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Or better, perhaps. But you're right, that would be enough. DAVilla 19:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)


 * keep per google news - TheDaveRoss 06:55, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * keep Does English use tildes? Wouldn't the English spelling be El Nino and not El Niño? Jonathan Webley 10:10, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * seems to be a toss up whether or not we use the tilde, we have no problem stealing from other languages and then mangling the words as we see fit :) - TheDaveRoss
 * keep Also per Google Books . Dropping diacritics is a time-honored tradition in English.  --Jeffqyzt 12:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * keep How about a redirection to the correct spelling?--Jusjih 16:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Marked it as a variant (updating "El Niño" accordingly). As has already been said, people without access to accented characters have little choice but to spell it this way - that doesn't make them wrong for doing so. English does not use tildes in its own words, but can do in words of Spanish origin that have them (eg, mañana) &mdash; Paul G 15:48, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Verdict: Kept. DAVilla 17:07, 3 January 2007 (UTC)