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Requested move
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03:00, 1 May 2012 In ictu oculi m . . (In ictu oculi moved page Ondrej Sedivy to Ondřej Šedivý: Another Ondřej, per BLP accuracy, sources confirm family name Šedivý)
This may be the "english" wikipedia, but it contains foreign subjects too; their names occasionally contain diacritics. If you are offended by the presence of "foreign" names I cannot fathom why you'd be reading an article about a Czech person.
bobrayner (
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14:55, 2 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Support (same rationale as for today's other "Ondřej" RMs: Diacritics provide important pronunciation information for those familiar with a language and do not hinder reading or understanding for those who choose to ignore them. Although some English sources have omitted diacritics due to typographical or display constraints, scholarly and encyclopedic sources (which is what Wikipedia aspires to be) are far more likely to include them. Modern computers universally support display of European-language diacritics, eg, at least the ones in
WGL-4 or similar subsets. Wikipedia should render names with diacritics accurately. --
P.T. Aufrette (
talk)
00:25, 2 May 2012 (UTC)reply
"Although some English sources have omitted diacritics due to typographical or display constraints, scholarly and encyclopedic sources (which is what Wikipedia aspires to be) are far more likely to include them." do you have as source for this assumption or is it
WP:OR? --
PBS (
talk)
16:00, 2 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Simply removing diacritics is a mistake and not how you properly translate a name to English. As such the diacritics are more accurate than removing them incorrectly would be. -
DJSasso (
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19:07, 2 May 2012 (UTC)reply
Removing diacritics doesn't make a name english, it makes it misspelt. PBS, which bit of "more accurate name" is causing you problems? It's three unambiguous words.
"Simply removing diacritics is a mistake and not how you properly translate a name to English". Who says it is a translation into English. This is about what name us used in Reliable English language sources. Making statements about "mistake" implies an editorial POV not a decision based on usage in reliable English language sources. A more constructive approach would be to preform a survey on reliable English language sources, and present that information here for further analysis. "Removing diacritics doesn't make a name english" who say it does? Who says it makes it "misspelt" in English? If reliable English language sources remove accent marks, then is that not the name used in reliable English language sources? If English language sources leave the accent marks in place that is that not the name used in English reliable sources? The content of Wikipedia articles and article titles should follow policy and be based on usage in verifiable reliable sources, not on editorial POVs. It seems to me that "accurate" as used here is an editorial POV and not an observation based on usage in reliable English language sources. If not, then what is the reliable source being used to determine that "Ondřej Šedivý" is more accurate than "Ondrej Sedivy"? --
PBS (
talk)
17:28, 3 May 2012 (UTC)reply
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