Talk:Werner Forssmann

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Move?[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:42, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Werner Forssmann → Werner Forßmann — That's the proper spelling of his name, see all German sources in the article. Pgallert (talk) 06:26, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As far as article titles go, we generally don't care one bit what native language sources call him. We're interested in what the majority of English-language sources call him, and that's "Forssmann". Powers ^T 12:18, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There have been queries before about putting ß in German names in the English Wikipedia. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:36, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose no English-language rationale provided. WP:Use English. This is not the German Wikipedia, "ß" is not an English-language letter. 76.66.203.138 (talk) 06:04, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Do the German-writing Swiss write it this way? 76.66.203.138 (talk) 06:04, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Forßmann is quite simply the only correct way to spell his name. As with many names containing foreign Latin alphabet characters, many English-langauge sources either don’t know the correct spelling or don’t know how to insert the foreign characters. Wikipedia should not have this problem. MTC (talk) 10:21, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- You think the Nobel Prize committee doesn't know how to insert an eszett character? Powers ^T 16:50, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME, English common name. – ukexpat (talk) 20:06, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, I see there are articles on Günter Blobel, Eugen Dühring and Gustav Körner. ü and ö are not English letters - what's different about ß? Pahari Sahib 20:24, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, first of all, it's a different letter rather than a letter with a diacritic over it. Second of all, the issue is not the Eszett, the issue is what do reliable sources call this person. If reliable English sources use the umlauts, then we use the umlauts. If reliable English source say "Werner Forssmann", then so do we. Powers ^T 01:09, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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