Talk:229762 Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà

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This is the best dwarf planet

best name — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.255.14.154 (talk) 23:32, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

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Naming rationale

Has there been and research or interviews with the astronomers involved as to why they selected such a name? Given their surnames, I presume none of the astronomers is actually from Namibia and this is not a Namibian discovery. Is it a kind of private joke? Does the name have some personal significance to the discovers? Surely, they must have been asked why they would pick a name that both deviates from the traditional convention of naming celestial objects according to Greek mythology, and which sounds very alien in civilised languages. Of course, a link to such an article would be appreciated 2A02:2454:9873:5900:E844:5C61:E14F:DD8 (talk) 11:03, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

"Civilized languages"? And there is no convention of naming such objects from Greek mythology. The reason was to honor or bring attention to the San, who get short shrift in astronomical naming. Same for 469705 ǂKá̦gára. — kwami (talk) 02:40, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Inappropriate comments about "civilised languages" aside, it is true that the only way I can ever find this article without a link or copy-paste (i.e. having the name there already) is typing in 2007 UK126 (the old provisional designation). So there might be some nicknames going around for the object. I wonder how the name is mostly pronounced among astronomers? (I would personally read the name using the English approximation given in the article.) Double sharp (talk) 05:19, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

I would just write it as "Gkunhomdima", which seems to work just fine in search engines. --Tai Ferret (talk) 19:17, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Oppose. Though Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà may be a strange name to English ears, it is the original name that was submitted by the discoverers. It would be incredibly rude to change it, and not just for the discoverers, but for people of Namibia. Englishizing the name would be incredibly rude and would undermine the culture, even if it is more simplistic to English users. 2601:600:8680:9150:ADF0:558A:BFED:3D7C (talk) 16:35, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

No need to rename. Just create a redirect "Gkunhomdima". Ruslik_Zero 20:27, 30 January 2022 (UTC)