Talk:Sohn Won-yil

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Romanised Name

Sohn Won-yil has 13,600 hits on google ("Sohn Won-yil" has 2200 hits)
Son Wonil has 156,000 hits on google ("Son Wonil" has 824 hits)
Son Won-il has 4,440,000 hits on google ("Son Won-il" has 5780 hits)

Based on actual usage in English, it would appear that "Son Won-Il" should be the proper name in usage for the article. Based on the WP MoS for Korean names, (WP:NCKO), "Son Won-Il" should still be the correct listing.

What is the basis for the non-standard romanisation used in this article? Rhialto (talk) 12:58, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That is because there are many 손원일s. But here we are talking about one unique person, 손원일 (born in 1909), who happened to spell his name as Sohn Won-yil. Do google search for Lee Seungman (이승만). there are 1,240,000 results. And do the same for Syngman Rhee, then there are 273,000 results. The number is smaller, but the president 이승만, did spell his name as Syngman Rhee, which is not a systematically romanized name. Nevertheless the wiki article is under the name of Syngman Rhee. According to the MoS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Spelling_and_romanization), "Use a systematically transliterated or otherwise romanized name (Aleksandr Tymoczko, Wang Yanhong); but if there is a common English form of the name (Tchaikovsky, Chiang Kai-shek), use that form instead."

Sohn Won-yil is the same case. It was romanized as since 1940s. See the caption for the picture of the following link as an example: https://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=25589 Bin2k1 (talk) 12:01, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]