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Gordon Joly

31 Jul 2017 31 Jul '17

5:24 a.m.

The term "native name" the Infobox at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konnie_Huq Konnie Huq was born in Hammersmith, as was her sister. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupa_Huq Native name: is there something better to describe her name in Bengali? Gordo

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Andy Mabbett

31 Jul 31 Jul

5:34 a.m.

On 31 July 2017 at 10:24, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:

Konnie Huq was born in Hammersmith, as was her sister.

Native name: is there something better to describe her name in Bengali?

It's her name in her "native" language, where "native" means "associated with the place *or circumstances* of a person's birth"; but it could as well be removed, or moved to the 'other_names' parameter -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Owen Blacker

4:56 p.m.

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd put their name in Bengali into the infobox at all, personally. But `other_names` certainly *feels* more appropriate. On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 at 10:35 Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

On 31 July 2017 at 10:24, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:

Konnie Huq was born in Hammersmith, as was her sister.

Native name: is there something better to describe her name in Bengali?

It's her name in her "native" language, where "native" means "associated with the place *or circumstances* of a person's birth"; but it could as well be removed, or moved to the 'other_names' parameter -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

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Richard Symonds

6:03 p.m.

The article at https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/sep/07/radio-review-bbc-asian… suggests that she doesn't actually speak Bengali at all... Does she even use the Bengali spelling? On 31 July 2017 at 21:56, Owen Blacker <owen(a)blacker.me.uk> wrote:

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd put their name in Bengali into the infobox at all, personally. But `other_names` certainly *feels* more appropriate. On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 at 10:35 Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

On 31 July 2017 at 10:24, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:

Konnie Huq was born in Hammersmith, as was her sister.

Native name: is there something better to describe her name in Bengali?

It's her name in her "native" language, where "native" means "associated with the place *or circumstances* of a person's birth"; but it could as well be removed, or moved to the 'other_names' parameter -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

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David Gerard

7:02 p.m.

You see a lot of this, where someone from a given ethnic origin has a "native" version of their name put on their article even if there's no citable evidence they've ever used it. Do we have a cite for this? First port of call would be the refs, second the talk page. On 31 July 2017 at 23:03, Richard Symonds <chasemewiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

The article at https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/sep/07/radio-review-bbc-asian… suggests that she doesn't actually speak Bengali at all... Does she even use the Bengali spelling? On 31 July 2017 at 21:56, Owen Blacker <owen(a)blacker.me.uk> wrote:

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd put their name in Bengali into the infobox at all, personally. But `other_names` certainly feels more appropriate. On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 at 10:35 Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

On 31 July 2017 at 10:24, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:

Konnie Huq was born in Hammersmith, as was her sister.

Native name: is there something better to describe her name in Bengali?

It's her name in her "native" language, where "native" means "associated with the place *or circumstances* of a person's birth"; but it could as well be removed, or moved to the 'other_names' parameter -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

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