Talk:Kwon

message: :"Chinese : variant of Guan 1.
:"Chinese : variant of Guan 2."
What is the author trying to say here? It's very vague.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chulk90 (talk • contribs) 19:15, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Vague Description

message: When concerning the spelling of the Gwon family name, everything here is transliterated as "Kwon" this is based on the McCune–Reischauer romanization system which has been fazed out as the official romanization system since the year 2000. In its place is the Revised Romanization system which has since been the standard of transliteration. According to Wikipedia Guidelines, specifically Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Korean), "unless the subject is known to prefer otherwise...family names are romanized per Revised Romanization (RR) for South Koreans and pre-1945 Koreans, or McCune–Reischauer (MR) for North Koreans" As such I would like to carry out correcting this page. However, some of these names belong to modern Korean people, as such, I am unsure as to which prefer the "Kwon" over "Gwon". those who are knowledgeable about these preferences, please share this information so that a name is not unfairly changed. Sanctusune (talk) 07:47, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerning Kwon vs. Gwon 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. Per consensus, the proposed title is the WP:COMMONNAME. The opposing voice contends that the Revised Romanization system should be used as it is the official system, however, evidence presented shows that that the McCune-Reischauer Romanization version has a more widespread usage. It is also shown that there are exceptions to WP:NCKO that are not listed in there, which indicates that the exception list in there is not exhuastive as raised by Adumbrativus. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 04:35, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Gwon →  – Move back to Kwon as per WP:COMMONNAME. The romanization Kwon is clearly favoured over Gwon. According to WP:NCKO, names should be should generally be romanized according to their common usage in English sources instead of automatically using Revised Romanization. Viewing the list of notable people on the page, 100% of the post-1945 figures use the romanization of “Kwon”. A 2009 study done by the National Institute of the Korean Language shows that a majority of people with this surname have translated it as Kwon compared to Gwon (85.5% for Kwon, 6.9% for Gwon as seen on page 63 of the pdf). A Google NGram contrasting Kwon and Gwon shows that Kwon has a huge lead over Gwon. Looking at the pageview analysis, moving the page from Kwon to Gwon in January 2020 caused the page views to go down after a page move to more uncommon name. The page views still have not recovered to the page views before the page move. CountHacker (talk) 09:13, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 3 January 2023