Wikipedia:Requests for Comment/Duplicate name in basic ASCII character set

Consensus here is clear that a name in basic ASCII character set should not be included. There is a possible exception in the specific case of instances where the Anglicised name differs from the native script name by more than just the removal of diacritics, as for instance in the case of the examples given by VE15 such as þ→th, đ→dj and ij→y. For these cases there has been relatively little discussion and so I find there is no consensus in this discussion for either having or not having a name in basic ASCII script. So for those cases this RfC should not be used as justification for the removal or addition of such names. If editors feel that more clarity is need on this specific case is needed then a wider consensus should again be sought. Dpmuk (talk) 20:02, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Should BLPs contain a duplicate name in basic ASCII character set? In ictu oculi (talk) 03:02, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Clarification of terms in question:
By "basic ASCII character set" is meant the original 95 ASCII#ASCII printable characters namely ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyz, plus digits, punctuation marks, and a few miscellaneous symbols, still used as the restricted character range in many websites, and many newspapers, without User:Prolog/Diacritical marks.
By "contain a duplicate name" is meant any duplicate name format:
Frédéric Fontang (Casablanca, 18 March 1970) is a French... [Footnote: often spelled Frederic Fontang]
Frédéric Fontang (Casablanca, 18 March 1970) professionally known as Frederic Fontang is a French...
Frédéric Fontang (Casablanca, 18 March 1970) is a French... [Infobox: ATP NAME: Frederic Fontang]
By "BLPs" is meant the 105 BLPs to which such duplicate names in basic ASCII character set have been added since the closure of WikiProject Tennis WP:TENNISNAMES RfC " "Is it appropriate for a wikiproject to insist on no-diacritics names, based on an organisation's rule or commonness in English-language press?" closed 8 June 2012.