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Since #1257 el is read by default as al is, an article that may be a given name. Algeria is the one population measured where that breaks more names than it fixes: ORCID's Algerian researchers 37 fixed to 135 broken, PSC's Algerian filers 3 to 10 (config_diff.py score, 2026-11-12, against Morocco's 2,002 to 26, Egypt's 286 to 20 and Lebanon's 432 to 6). Every Algerian break is the article inside a compound given name, which the particle join takes into the family. #1257 recorded this as an accepted cost under rules/P2; this issue would lift it. The same shape costs Hebrew-script אל about 6 JRC-Names spellings, and Latin abd before El:
| Input | today | the given name |
|---|---|---|
Nour El Houda Haddou |
given 'Nour', family 'El Houda Haddou' | given 'Nour El Houda' |
Seif El Islam Haddou |
given 'Seif', family 'El Islam Haddou' | given 'Seif El Islam' |
Mohamed El Amine Haddou |
given 'Mohamed', family 'El Amine Haddou' | given 'Mohamed El Amine' |
Abd El Kader Haddou |
given 'Abd', family 'El Kader Haddou' | given 'Abd El Kader' |
עבד אל עזיז כהן |
given 'עבד', family 'אל עזיז כהן' | given 'עבד אל עזיז' |
Proposal (vocabulary only, no new rule)
- The second halves as rules/P10 words (
after_particleon their given readings):houda,hoda,amine,islam,islem,din,dine,zahraa,zahra,batoul,imen,bachir,habib…- When: a one-word given name, the article, a listed word, then a family name.
- Then: the article and the word are a middle name (as
María del Carmen Garcíareads); two-given-name handling (rules/O7) takes it into the given name. - Because: the word after the article is a given name's second half.
- Accepted: a family name opening with the same word reads as the given name's half, the cost P10 already accepts for
Carmen. - Open: P10's threshold (75% of moved names landing in the filers' boxes, ten or more) per word, pooled or by country; on by default or under an Arabic choice only.
abd,abdeland Hebrew-scriptעבדwith rules/P12'scompleted_byfor the names after the article (El Kader,El Aziz;אל עזיז,אל חלים,אל כרים,אללה), joined as one given name.- Open: which names; whether Latin
abdtakes the same list as Arabicعبد.
- Open: which names; whether Latin
- Arabic-script
ايتandولد(ShouldAit,NaitandOuldbe family-name particles? (Youssef Ait Talebgives middle 'Ait', family 'Taleb') #1249's last question): the spellings ofaitandould, 5 and 4 names among 394 + 117 Moroccan parliamentarians. Isben/bin/בןa particle, a patronymic marker, or a given name? (Karim Ben Salah,בן כספית,Youssef Ait Taleb) #1257's rule 1 would decide them;ولدis also the noun "boy" and needs its bearer check.
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- Does (1) lift Algeria enough to drop the Accepted line from rules/P2?
- Is it on by default or under an Arabic choice only?
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Correct #1257's records, re-take its figures at head and record its c…
derek73 commentedon Nov 13, 2026
Two additions from the review of #1373, both the same shapes as above:
abdulandabubefore the article:Abdul El Karim Haddoureads given 'Abdul', family 'El Karim Haddou', andAbu El Hassan Haddougiven 'Abu', family 'El Hassan Haddou' (2.2.0 through 3.0.1 read given 'Abdul El' and 'Abu El').N'Ait(ShouldAit,NaitandOuldbe family-name particles? (Youssef Ait Talebgives middle 'Ait', family 'Taleb') #1249 named it):Leila N'Ait Haddoureads middle "N'Ait", family 'Haddou'.Settle #1257's records: one kind test, wheel-checked claims, scoped l…
Read the Maghrebi, Amazigh and Hebrew family-name particles; add loca…