Talk:Courtesy name

message: Can the person who recently moved it from [Courtesy name] to [Style name] justify the move? I have never heard of "style name", just simply "style". I realize that the original intro that I myself wrote was ambiguous in saying: "...sometimes as style or courtesy name" . But believe me, I did not mean it as "...sometimes as "style name" and sometimes as "courtesy name". --Menchi 01:55, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style vs. Style Name 

message: :The tradition of using style names has been fading away since the May Fourth Movement.
Would be useful to have some sense of how much it has faded.  Do 1% of people get one these days?  10%?  Are there particular regions of China where it remains popular?  Tempshill 17:10, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How much are they used? 

message: QASIM &NISHA  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.71.175.26 (talk) 04:48, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  QASIM BUTT 

message: What criteria should be used to determine if someone is "famous" enough to have their style name included among the examples? I see that an earlier version of this article stopped the list at Yue Fei. I respect the inclusion of everyone up to this point, as these are major historical figures that have been immortalized in literary, historical, or political texts. But are the 20th-century figures listed below Yue Fei recognizable enough to an English reader for inclusion in this article? I would guess that most Anglophone readers of this article would surely recognize the given names of most--if not all--of the figures listed from Laozi to Yue Fei; the others, however, would likely be much more obscure, with readers recognizing neither their given nor style names.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.119.5.232 (talk) 11:19, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  I went ahead and removed the less famous names. --Zanhe (talk) 01:39, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Famous" 

message: In the lede are cited "family schools teachers" but I couldn't find any information on them. Does anyone know what are/were them in China? Thanks. --Dia^ (talk) 09:08, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family school 

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.
* Support per both nom's main reasons. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:09, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: *Please do a bit more research before accusing me of cherry picking the terms. As I mentioned in the nom, Google results for "style name" are overwhelmingly false hits, which is why I didn't use that term in ngram. A simple google books search reveals that the vast majority of "style name" matches are about HTML and XML style names, which explains why there has been a huge spike of its use in Google ngram since the late 80s and early 90s, when people began to use the web. Before the results became skewed by the emergence of HTML and XML, "courtesy name" was far more common than "style name". -Zanhe (talk) 16:43, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

text: *No change is required for any other article if this one is renamed, as the current title will become a redirect. Already a large number of articles link to courtesy name despite that being currently a redirect. Also, the move proposal is mainly about WP:COMMONNAME, not political correctness. -Zanhe (talk) 17:03, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Could someone with knowledge of Chinese please take a look at the sentence 'The relation which often exists between a person's zì and míng may be seen in the case of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), whose ming was Zhōngzhèng (中正，Romanized as Chung-cheng) and zi was Jieshi（介石，Romanized as Kai-shek）.'?
I appreciate that it may not be straightforward to explain the relationship in English but I think it would be useful if some attempt was made. --Boreas74 You'll catch more flies with honey 13:15, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship between zì and míng