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Per the RfC and the previous one, there does appear to be a consensus to support this proposed guideline. As a result the following will take effect:
All Bangladesh related articles should follow the
WP:BDPLACE guideline.
If there is any item that is not covered in this guideline, editors should default back to the
WP:PLACE guideline.
Editors should remember that this is a guideline, and not a policy.
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Support This is to be expected. I see nothing here which should be controversial. There should be some standard rules for talking about Bangladeshi places in English Wikipedia, and the points in this proposal are not covered by
WP:PLACE. This is a good complement to WP:PLACE.
Blue Rasberry (talk)19:10, 28 April 2015 (UTC)reply
This is unclear: "When multiple spellings exist, choose the page name according to Bangladesh government portal (mostly in Bengali only), next to Banglapedia (www.banglapedia.org)." Since we are dealing with English spelling, how is the Bengali spelling to be interpreted? What transliteration system should be used? There are many different styles for transliterating Bangla into English.
Sminthopsis84 (
talk)
09:51, 19 April 2015 (UTC)reply
The parenthetic is unclear, Bangladesh govt. portal does not have English name for all places. In such cases Banglapedia is to be referred. I guess, this line needs to be better phrased. Help us out. nafSadhdidsay15:04, 19 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Aditya was saying, we should run a pilot on BDPLACE; may be chose Rajshahi , then check and refactor names of places in Rajshahi according to BDPLACE. It will (1) check for any flaw in the proposal (2) let us practice this convention. We can form a project:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/Geography Workgroup and keep a
log on how it is coming up. May be we can maintain a sortable table (or just a list) to put old name and new names of articles in a page within that project. nafSadhdidsay13:41, 20 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Thanks guys. You can start checking names within Rajshahi (first the city, then the district and next few from the division). I would appreciate if @
Sminthopsis84: can join the pilot, as he is interested in Bangladesh and not from Bangladesh; we can have a more global perspective from him. – nafSadhdidsay15:19, 21 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment I think that the guideline should clearly state the differences in policy here versus the policy at
WP:PLACE, or otherwise say that there are no differences. As I read this, I see no obvious differences, and think this is just a localized guide giving the same information. If I knew what differences were here, if any, then I could more easily comment.
Blue Rasberry (talk)14:39, 28 April 2015 (UTC)reply
This guideline is derived from
WP:PLACE to explains some localized nuances. It does not supplement aforementioned guideline. An important notion is, WP:BDPLACE distinguishes administratively defined territories from more natural localities.
Nafsadh Something like that would work. This does seem to supplement WP:PLACE when talking about Bangladeshi places, so that part is a little confusing, and also this guideline does more than what this box says because it also covers Bangla to English transliteration. What about just saying "This guideline is derived from
WP:PLACE to explain some localized nuances in Bangladesh and Bangla language." Is that correct? If so, then I support.
Blue Rasberry (talk)17:59, 28 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Started working on the pilot. Check the log. Can someone just fill in the old name column? Then others can work on the names and fill other columns with updates.
Aditya(
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contribs)10:07, 3 May 2015 (UTC)reply
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