Talk:Miguel Indurain

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The result of the nomination wasMoved -- Kim van der Linde ^{at venus} 04:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No accent

His name is Miguel Indurain and not Miguel Induráin. I'm to lazy to make the move myself. Švitrigaila 12:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

This is not so clear to me. Actually, according to the rules of accents in Spanish (see the current rules by the Spanish Real Academia), "Induráin" should be spelt with an accent. This may not have always been the case because I remember older rules used to have exceptions for names of Catalan or Basque origin with unusual endings (like, say, "Milans" or "Bernabeu"). I don't know if names like "Induráin" or "Beguiristáin" were ever exempted from being accented by the Real Academia rules, but certainly the current rules no longer contemplate any exceptions. "Induráin" is stressed in the last syllable, which is "rain" (because of the diphthong), and it ends with an "n", so an accent on top of the "a" is required. There is, however, a valid rationale for spelling it without an accent, which is the fact that this surname is of Basque origin, and if we follow the spelling rules of Basque, then it should have no accent. This is a tricky question, but I would say that we should treat his surname as Spanish since his official name, and the one he apparently uses himself, is "Miguel" in Spanish, rather than "Mikel" (some Basque newspapers used to refer to him as "Mikel Indurain", using his Basque name, though). But unless anyone can prove that he prefers to be called by his Basque name, I think this article should be kept as "Miguel Induráin". For those who are interested, this interesting article in Spanish discusses the treatment of Catalan, Basque and Galician names in the Spanish media, and mentions the Induráin/Indurain controversy. --AngelRiesgo 22:50, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Yesterday I brought up this issue at the Spanish Wikipedia's Village Pump, after realising that the article there uses the spelling without an accent. In the discussion that followed, it was pointed out that his name is spelt as "Miguel Indurain Larraya" in his personal website. That seems to prove that he prefers to spell it like that, so I have to change my position on this. If he spells it "Indurain", then we should respect that. --AngelRiesgo 10:07, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

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