Talk:Shin-Soo Choo

Trade: Official yet?

It would be beneficial for all of us to discuss this instead of simply reverting over and over until someone gets blocked. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 02:45, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Per MLB .com it is it was on intentional talk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.65.65.243 (talk • contribs)

It does seem to be official.[1] – Muboshgu (talk) 03:02, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Ok, good. Now maybe we can look into the article naming situation. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 03:10, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was moved by Y2kcrazyjoker4. --BDD (talk) 19:31, 27 December 2012 (UTC) (non-admin closure)

Choo Shin-Soo → Shin-Soo Choo – Ducati748 has twice moved this article to it's current location, a move with which I don't think I agree. His rationale is this: Since he was born in Korea, raised in Korea, and spent most of his life in Korea, his name is CHOO Shin-Soo. Family name appears first for Koreans. eg., http://wiki.riteme.site...) and then his edit summary runs out (Apparently, he also thinks that at least some of us don't know anything). He may be right about the naming business, but it just seems to me that we should title the article with the name we use when talking about the player. I'm not sure about that, maybe policy disagrees with me, but I'd at least like to see it discussed (politely too). AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 04:10, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

• Support per WP:COMMONNAME - specifically "Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources". Should also note that the Cincinnati Reds official roster has "Shin-Soo Choo". Trut-h-urts man (talk) 04:52, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support - Google Books printed sources has the name in American order around 500x, and this isn't a sport where he'd be playing under his Korean name order at Olympic level so would require over-ruling national-level sports sources. Category:Major League Baseball players from South Korea shows some inconsistency. List of Major League Baseball players from South Korea. Some of these names are ambiguous to the non-Korean speaking reader Bong Jung-Keun, Cho Jin-Ho (baseball), Koo Dae-Sung, and Lee Sang-Hoon are all at Korean order. While Hee-seop Choi, Byung-Hyun Kim, Sun-Woo Kim, Chan Ho Park, Cha Seung Baek, Jae Kuk Ryu, and Jae Weong Seo at American order. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:12, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

NB. I'd suggest WP:RM/TR for moves over hyphen redirects for these 4x articles Cha-Seung Baek, Jae-Kuk Ryu, Jae-Weong Seo, Chan-Ho Park for clarity for American readers and indeed Korean-speakers reading in English, at the moment these names fail WP:PRECISION between 백차승 vs. 차승백 etc. Impossible to tell which is surname without the hyphen that, given baseball context, means it could be either order. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:02, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I'll let somebody else who understands those a little better handle them. However, I am curious as to what NB stands for? AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 05:15, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi, just Nota bene. I've put them in for RM at Talk:Cha Seung Baek. In ictu oculi (talk) 06:16, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 18:57, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

• Support. Articles should be listed according to their most common English language usage. Spanneraol (talk) 19:28, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support This is the English Wikipedia, not the Korean Wikipedia. I'm sure that this individual should be named the Korean language equivalent of "Choo Shin-Soo" on the Korean wiki, and should be listed as "Shin-Soo Choo" on the English wiki, as this is the only way I've ever seen him referred to in English sources. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:04, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support Just so it's clear where I stand and I'm now convinced I was right. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 20:25, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support – User who moved it claims that "he was born in Korea, raised in Korea, and spent most of his life in Korea" and therefore his surname should go first. This is false. WP should be following the common name of a player, which means the one he is commonly referred to in English. MLB.com refers to Choo with his surname last, just like it does with Chan Ho Park, Byung-Hyun Kim and Ichiro Suzuki (and not Suzuki Ichiro as it is in Japanese). —Bloom6132 (talk) 01:04, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support - I thought I already commented here, but that may have been the James Loney discussion, they all run together. Anyway, per the rationale above, I support the move back to the original title. Go Phightins! 03:30, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

• Comment Something to be aware of is the guideline that deals with this specifically. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Korean). -DJSasso (talk) 12:44, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
  • Interesting that the guideline diverges from the policy of WP:COMMONNAME. I have started a discussion there at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Korean)#Common_name.—Bagumba (talk) 19:12, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

I've commented on Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Korean), but honestly I think WikiProject Korea should be at least given a teeny bit of acknowledgement by WP:Baseball here, and vice-versa. The solution above seems livable, the current state of Talk:Cha Seung Baek isn't serving anyone. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:37, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

• Support per comments above and WP:COMMONNAME.--Astros4477 (talk) 15:04, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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Wow. You people (Eurocentrists) are quite amazing. Apparently, you believe the "English" language exists only in NA and Europe. Check this article written in English. That's the only requirement, correct? Any English paper written in East Asia will refer to him Choo Shin-soo. Ducati748 (talk) 03:50, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

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Hangul

Why is his name in given-name, family-name order in the Hangul version?185.223.162.62 (talk) 04:29, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 14 November 2021

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The result of the move request was: not moved (closed by non-admin page mover) Calidum 01:16, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

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Shin-Soo Choo → Shin-soo Choo – To avoid unnecessary capitalization MOS:CAPS. Sawol (talk) 19:20, 13 November 2021 (UTC)— Relisting. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 14:13, 22 November 2021 (UTC)— Relisting. Colonestarrice (talk) 05:24, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:50, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

• @Sawol, 162 etc., and SnowFire: queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:50, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
• This contradicts the capitalization used by MLB, ESPN, and many other reliable sources. 162 etc. (talk) 20:46, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
• See reasoning above - doesn't seem correct. SnowFire (talk) 07:05, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

@162 etc. and SnowFire: Their usage is unnecessary capitalization. All Category:South Korean sportspeople's pages follow the convention with only the first syllable capitalized although many English sources use dual capitalization. After Talk:An Ji-man#Requested move, all Category:South Korean people's pages became to avoid unnecessary capitalization. North Korean people choose to spell their names with something like Chu Sin Su, Kim Jong Un. But English Wikipedia selects Sin-su, Jong-un. Sawol (talk) 18:04, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose move. WP:Naming conventions (Korean) states that "If there is no personal preference, and no established English spelling, hyphenate the syllables, with only the first syllable capitalized"; in this particular case, "Shin-Soo Choo" is the established English spelling, so that clause does not apply. O.N.R. ^(talk) 19:38, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
• @Old Naval Rooftops: Spelling the name Shin-Soo is the same as Shin-soo. It's a style issue. Shin-soo Choo is a Korean and Shin-soo is a Korean given name. Shin-soo should also be consistent with Category:Korean masculine given names, Category:Korean feminine given names, and Category:Korean unisex given names. Shin-Soo is also unnecessary capitalization as all caps SHIN-SOO. Sawol (talk) 15:09, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

As has already been pointed out above, Wikipedia policy is to follow common English-language usage. Consistency does not matter. 162 etc. (talk) 17:24, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose per 162 and ONR. User:力 (powera, π, ν) 20:14, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
• Support. While I understand 162's reasoning that MLB.com, ESPN.com, and other similar sources have Choo's name capitalized as "Shin-Soo," those same sources do the exact same thing with other South Korean players' names (such as Ji-man Choi and Hyun-jin Ryu), yet as we can see, those articles' titles are capitalized the exact same way that Sawol proposes this one to be. In fact, looking through Category:South Korean expatriate baseball players in the United States, this article is the only case of a player in that category with a hyphenated given name having the first letter of the second part of his name capitalized. Also, I disagree with ONR's interpretation of WP:Naming conventions (Korean)#Given name, because this is a question of capitalization, not spelling. "Shin-soo" and "Shin-Soo" are the same spelling, but different capitalization, and "Shin-soo" is the capitalization that better follows MOS:CAPS. --Zander251 (talk) 01:53, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

I'd argue that the other two players you named could also go to RM. Ji-Man Choi was actually moved to Ji-man Choi without discussion by User:Sawol. [2] And consensus at this RM was to use Hyun-Jin Ryu as the article title, but the closer erroneously moved it to Hyun-jin Ryu.[3] 162 etc. (talk) 04:18, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

In the case of Choi's article, it appears that Sawol was simply trying to follow WP:NC-KO, as stated in the explanation for the move. In the case of Ryu's article, the move discussion was primarily dealing with whether his given name or his surname should be first in the article's title; the capitalization issue was not actually discussed, even if the move proposal was made with the J in "Jin" capitalized. I was not a registered editor on Wikipedia at the time when either of those moves were made, but these are the impressions that I get from looking at them now.

That being said, it might make sense to have a discussion on moving those pages as well, but we should probably at least wait until this present discussion is settled first, since it won't make as much sense to discuss moving those pages to capitalized versions if this discussion were to result in this page being moved to the lowercase version. Also, a discussion about those pages would probably have to also include just about all of the articles in the category I previously mentioned, since just about all of them (except for the few without hyphens in their names) would fall under the same type of issue. But based on my understanding of Korean naming conventions, the lowercase versions seem correct for both this article and all of the others. --Zander251 (talk) 05:23, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

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