# What authority assigns the "short" names of the Emoji?

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**Created:** [Juin 4, 2015, 11:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-authority-assigns-the-short-names-of-the-emoji/29665 "2015-06-04T23:49:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [Juin 5, 2015, 4:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-authority-assigns-the-short-names-of-the-emoji/29665/8 "2015-06-05T04:05:32Z")

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> [@elijah](#):
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> someone here may have an official reference s/he consulted

The official ref is the filenames we got from emojione, twitter,google and github that extracted the images out of the apple emojis.

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