Talk:Zewditu I of Ethiopia
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[edit] Biography assessment rating comment
WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
Needs references, but otherwise a B.
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 02:01, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Discussion
This page was created as Empress Zaudito of Ethiopia in error, and a redirect page exists at Zaudito of Ethiopia requiring administrative assistance to correct. Whig 11:25, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
- This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 09:51, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Askala Maryam?
Are you sure she was baptised as Askala Maryam? Maryam is muslim name (arabised form of Mary). 87.250.113.199 17:23, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
- If I'm not mistaken, it's also the Ethiopian rendering of the name. My understanding is that Maryam is rare or non-existent as a given name among Ethiopians (at least among Christians), but perhaps royalty is an exception. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:03, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
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- Maryam is not particularly common by itself, but it is an Ethiopian name. The name being considered here is Askale Maryam (can be spelled Askala or Mariam, too; my mother's name, coincidentally), though. "Askal" is a type of Ethiopian flower, so the name means "Askal of Mary." It's not by any means limited to royalty. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 21:49, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Speaking of spelling issues, I went ahead and normalized the various transliterations of Zewditu throughout the article (the variants are mentioned in the first para). --babbage (talk) 20:12, 10 January 2008 (UTC)