Talk:Lim Yoona

Requested move 31 December 2025

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. (closed by non-admin page mover) ―Howard • 🌽³³ 15:36, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

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Im Yoon-ah → Lim Yoona –

• Same arguments as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Yim_Si-wan#Requested_move_9_December_2025
• COMMON NAME in English-laguage sources as seen below, per WP:KOREANNAME:

-Korean Film Council's KoBiz: https://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/kofic/200_actors/Lim_Yoona.jsp

-The Korea Herald: https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10646236

-Vogue Hong Kong: https://www.voguehk.com/en/article/fashion/lim-yoona-vogue-hong-kong-february-cover/

-Cosmopolitan PH: https://www.cosmo.ph/kloka/lee-chaemin-yoona-bon-appetit-your-majesty-a5322-20250821-dyn

-ABS-CBN: https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/movies-series/2025/7/24/lim-yoona-lee-chae-min-s-bon-app-tit-your-majesty-to-stream-on-netflix-1239

-Korea JoongAng Daily (with alternative spelling of Lim Yoon-a): https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-08-07/entertainment/movies/Lim-Yoona-becomes-innocent-baker-by-day-devil-by-night-in-Pretty-Crazy/2370902

• PERSONAL PREFERENCE as evidenced in her verified / official sites below, per WP:KOREANNAME:

-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yoona__lim/#

-Weibo: https://weibo.com/u/5748179271

-Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/limyoona__official

Addendum: She titles her videos with “Lim Yoona”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=85J6MoipoA4&pp=0gcJCU0KAYcqIYzv

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oYdwWxRao4Y

Zoreaux (talk) 04:20, 31 December 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath^talk 07:56, 7 January 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath^talk 10:58, 14 January 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. 🦅White-tailed eagle^{Talk to the eagle}Stalking eagle 20:53, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

• Strongly Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME and prior consensus and discussion. A WP:BEFORE search shows approximately 700 results for the common name compared to about 200 for the proposed name, with unreliable and primary sources already discounted, the status quo simply has not changed. — 🎄☃️ Paper9oll ☃️🎄 (🔔 • 📝) 03:57, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Tentative support I'm flipping through sources and it's hard to make a quantitative judgment because so many of the sources are machine translated ones from like Maeil Business Newspaper and like Chosunbiz. Per WP:KOREANNAME, in such cases we go to step 2, personal preference. grapesurgeon (talk) 06:18, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Support / Support alternative name I agree with the fact that most of the Korean sources are machine translated, so I was looking through some western/non-Korean sources, which seem to prefer spelling her name as Lim Yoon-a due to its usage on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/browse/m/person/40015401

- New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/dining/bon-appetit-your-majesty-korean-drama.html

- Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanmacdonald/2025/08/23/yoona-and-lee-chae-min-share-chemistry-and-cuisine-in-bon-appetit-your-majesty/

- Rolling Stone Philippines: https://rollingstonephilippines.com/culture/tv/bon-appetit-your-majesty-netflix-k-drama/

- As a side note: Her agency recently seems to prefer following her personal preference and uses Lim Yoona https://www.instagram.com/p/DR86Q7_kxL9/ Tt2460 (talk) 06:23, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Korea, WikiProject Women in Music, WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers, WikiProject Pop music, and WikiProject Musicians have been notified of this discussion. TarnishedPath^talk 07:58, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

• Support: per WP:KOREANNAME #2. ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 06:29, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose per Paper9oll. Common name has not changed.  — Amakuru (talk) 08:20, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

• Support per the official spelling from herself and the agency PepeBonus (talk) 20:53, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose: this should be neutral point of view (NPOV) as per Paper9oll, Lim Yoona can be considering as an alternative spelling. Jjpachano (talk) 11:10, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

  ??? This has nothing to do with POV lol grapesurgeon (talk) 14:11, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

• Support the proposed spelling seems common enough, and is clearly the preferred spelling of the subject. RachelTensions (talk) 00:26, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: As I re-read the article, I suggest that it would be entitle using her mononym, as this is more accurate to the subject, since most sources referred to her as "Yoona". - Jjpachano (talk) 06:20, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

  I'd support that too. Seems to be common way to refer to her grapesurgeon (talk) 06:24, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

  I also agree to "Yoona", since that form persists in reliable English sources (per WP:COMMONNAME and Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea/Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources), for example (the articles are not machine‑translated):

  • https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10549298 (Referred to as "Yoona" throughout the article, with "Lim Yoona" used as the full name)
  • https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/entertainment/films/20250709/korean-film-pretty-crazy-to-bring-comedic-take-on-human-demonic-side
  • https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-01-30/entertainment/kpop/Girls-Generations-Yoona-hosts-final-MBC-Gayo-Daejejeon/2231833
  • https://en.asiatoday.co.kr/view.php?key=20250808000844034
  • https://www.donga.com/en/article/all/20250808/5773486/1 (Referred to as "Yoona" throughout the article, with "Lim Yoona" used as the full name)
  • https://www.voguehk.com/en/article/fashion/lim-yoona-vogue-hong-kong-february-cover/ (Referred to as "Yoona" throughout the article, with "Lim Yoona" used as the full name)
  • https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/entertainment/yoona-viral-bag-bon-appetit-your-majesty-netflix-471841

  These same sources also uses the personal preference form "Lim Yoona", which supports the original requests and grapesurgeon's point on personal preferences.

  On a quick skim, it seems like "Im Yoon‑ah" is predominantly used by sources that rely on machine translation, but that's just anecdotal, idk. Per WP:COMMONNAME, it's required to use reliable English sources to establish the article title, which is why the above examples matter. ~2026-62629-7 (talk) 12:20, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Relisting comment: Given the previous move discussions, I'm relisting this again. TarnishedPath^talk 10:58, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

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