Talk:Aferdita
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The original entry was for an Albanian given name, then it was changed into an English misspelling of Afërdita. Should we be listing stuff as misspellings of words in other languages? Should we consider an English word a misspelling when it lacks a diacritic? — Ungoliant (falai) 03:59, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
- Misspelling or no, I'd RFV whether this word is used in English at all. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 10:59, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
- The name is used in running English text in books, apparently with and without diacritics. I think there's a rebuttable presumption that any proper noun from any language used in a personal name is used in English, at least in a Romanized spelling without diacritics.
- But it seems pedantic to limit proper names, of persons at least, to a language rather than, say, a script (or script variant, as Roman-without-any-diacritics). Perhaps when we have something based on verifiable facts to say about pronunciation by those of different native languages, the pronunciations would justify multiple L2 sections.
- Is it defensible at Wiktionary to be implicitly prescriptive by only showing an Albanian pronunciation or Albanian orthography of this name?
- Would we want L2 sections in, say, Serbian, Macedonian, Greek, and Italian for Afërdita, assuming we had verifiable evidence of how the Albanian name is pronounced by such speakers?
- Why don't we at least have an Albanian pronunciation in the Albanian entry? DCDuring TALK 13:42, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
- Cleaned up. - -sche (discuss) 08:51, 27 January 2016 (UTC)