Talk:Ye

RFD discussion: January–June 2023

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Ye

Kanye West, American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer. The legal name of an individual person defined as that person. Seems like WT:NSE doesn't explicitly prohibit this case but this should be rather obvious nonetheless. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 10:16, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Weak keep. It seems odd to me, on the face of it, that whether we're allowed to have an entry depends on the external vagary of whether he's decided to change his legal name, and there are of course plenty of cases of ancient authors and the like whose whole name is one word (e.g. Sophocles). I would lean towards a stricter reading of the policy. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 20:37, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

• I imagine there's a pronoun use missing here, like when talking to God. Our Holy Father, may Ye please provide me with better health Celui qui crée ébauches de football anglais (talk) 15:19, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

  If it's attestable... traditionally "ye" is plural and God is addressed in the singular, though it's a plausible variant. I couldn't find any cases where it's capitalised for "may Ye" from a quick search. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 15:39, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

  That's merely capitalisation of ye. DonnanZ (talk) 15:44, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

  We have entries with specific glosses for Thou, He etc. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 15:46, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Keep per Al-Muqannaʿ. There was a principle that if something has passed inclusion criteria at one point in time then it cannot lose its status, whereof WT:JIFFY is an instance. Also it’s useful, more than many obscure nicknames we include, as his name is uttered with regular frequency in fashion discourse and short names cause comprehension difficulties. Fay Freak (talk) 16:29, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

• Keep per Fay Freak. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 23:05, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
• RFD-Kept. Clear and longstanding consensus to keep. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 02:22, 1 June 2023 (UTC)