Talk:Yang Banhou

Requested move 1 June 2023

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Andrewa (talk) 01:38, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

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Yang Pan-hou → Yang Banhou – The pinyin spelling "Yang Banhou" appears to have become at least as common, if not more common, than the Wade-Giles spelling. [1], [2], [3]. In keeping with WP:NCZH, I propose moving this page to the pinyin name. SilverStar54 (talk) 22:07, 1 June 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} (please mention me on reply) 22:22, 8 June 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} (please mention me on reply) 01:04, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

I am a big fan of Hanyu Pinyin, but Google reports 53,400 results for "Yang Ban-hou" and only 33,700 results for "Yang Banhou". Comments? Jōkepedia (talk) 22:35, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

A simple Google web search is not a very reliable method of gauging usage (they can include many false positives, and there are lots of Wikipedia mirrors). Google Books is a lot better because it only includes published sources, and comparing recent usage of Yang Pan-hou to Yang Banhou there shows 646 results for the pinyin spelling versus only 258 for Wade-Giles. SilverStar54 (talk) 00:27, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Good point. Jōkepedia (talk) 02:00, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

• Support as it's the usual convention when there's not much reason to prefer the other romanization. Adumbrativus (talk) 08:11, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

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