Talk:コロナちゃん
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I had initially shot this on sight as both SOP and a fictional character name, as described at Wiktionary:Requests_for_verification/CJK#Corona-chan, but the consensus emerged to run this by RFD, so I'm posting here.
Pinging the editors participating in the RFV thread: @Equinox, AG202, Hàlian.
I continue to think we should 
delete 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 ちゃん (-chan) used for this entry or the more polite and ubiquitous さん (-san) -- effectively making this entry an SOP.
- Creating editor @Hàlian 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 Wiktionary: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#Japanese, which I leave deleted for now -- 1) this was just a soft-redirect romanization entry pointing readers to the lemma at コロナちゃん, 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 ⟨ch⟩ for the /t͡ɕ/ 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)