Talk:Tang hu lu

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[edit] Proposed move

This article should be moved to Tanghulu (proper Wikipedia capitalization). Badagnani 02:24, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

What you're proposing has nothing to do with capitalization, but the division of words. Can you please link to the relevant MoS entry to support your proposal, and also provide some evidence? Google gives about twice as many results for "tang hu lu" as for "tanghulu". Thanks. --SigPig |^{SEND - OVER} 22:27, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your note. The word is not a proper noun (and the dish's name is not derived from a place name or name of a person), so "hu" and "lu" should not be capitalized. That's a given, and uncontroversial. In Chinese romanization/pinyin conventions, a word such as "tanghulu" "sugar gourd" is usually written as a single word. Another way of doing it would be "tang hulu" ("tang" meaning "sugar" and "hulu" being a two-syllable word meaning "gourd." Most of the Chinese editors here prefer using no space in such words, but either would be preferable to the current title/capitalization. Badagnani 22:31, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm not familiar with Pinyin conventions, but my knee-jerk monolingual anglophone reaction is to favour the two-word version: tanghulu looks like it would be pronounced like "tan-ghulu" due to English pronunciation conventions, and I assume tang hulu isn't. That being said, Google prefers the three-word variant over the one 2:1, with the two-word being a minor blip. I'd like to see some support for the one-word variant being the most common usage in English (per WP:UE) over the three. --SigPig |^{SEND - OVER} 05:57, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Good thoughts. It doesn't matter which version is used, as there will be redirects. I see that "Tanghulu," "Tang hu lu," and "Tang hulu" all show up on Google. All three words capitalized isn't correct, in any case. Badagnani 06:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I've moved the page to Tang hu lu, per the above discussion, and per WP:UE and WP:COMMONNAME. -GTBacchus^(talk) 10:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

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