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The result of the move request was: consensus not to move the page, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 17:22, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Björn Werner → Bjoern Werner – Per WP:COMMONNAME: "[Wikipedia] prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources." NFL, Roto, Colts.com, CBS, ESPN, and a pile of others spell his name "Bjoern", and we should too. Trut-h-urts man (T • C) 17:11, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - none of those sources pass WP:IRS, sources for the statement being made, the living persons name is Björn and we do not sportswebsitize umlauts for German people. More of an issue (and a BLP concern) is the statement "German-born" in the lead sentence. Where is the sourcing for a statement that clearly implies taking US citizenship? This appears to be a German citizen with a German wife married in Germany who studied in Florida. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:13, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - WP:CRITERIA aims for some consistency in article titles aswell. A quick glance at Müller (surname) (just as one example) and Björn shows, that the "local" German spelling is widely in use for German persons (unless they have a popular stage name or nickname). The sources listed above are reliable in terms of sports facts, not for proper spelling - there is no need to follow their naming convention (most "German" names have a redirect with their "English" spelling). Such a change would affect dozens, maybe hundreds, of articles and would need discussing in a broader forum (maybe on the policy talkpage). PS: agree, that the citizenship situation could use a clarification. GermanJoe (talk) 15:36, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. We should not take sports journalists' inability to spell foreign names as gospel. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:04, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Retirement

Bjoern Werner just announced live on German TV that his football career is over and he is retiring. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.209.33.118 (talk) 23:14, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]