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Not moved. The target page exists with a different article. If this is likely to be the primary topic, then a new multipart nomination would be needed.
Vegaswikian (
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21:19, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the links. I can read, indeed: "If there are too few English-language sources to constitute an established usage, follow the conventions of the language appropriate to the subject".
Thanks. However,
#6 is in French. Here are some English sources that use "Nicholas":
[8][9]. Those, combined with the fact that this article's source is an article titled "
Nicholas Adam", somewhat undermine the too few English sources claim. —
AjaxSmack01:25, 28 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Support. Although I am strongly in favor of
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English), especially in relation to books, plays, films and other works of art, names represent a separate topic of discussion. In 18th, 19th and first half of 20th century, foreign personalities' given names which lent themselves to easy anglicizing were commonly anglicized. "Oskar" became "Oscar", "Aleksandr" became "Alexander" and so on. Many sources still reference
Tchaikovski as "Peter", rather than as "Pyotr". Now, hovever, other than for royalty (
Peter the Great,
Alexander I of Yugoslavia) and individuals who lived in the English-speaking world or preferred to be known by their anglicized name (
George Frideric Handel rather than
Georg Friedrich Händel), the practice has been to adhere to native spelling unless presented with overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
—Roman Spinner(talk)06:59, 28 January 2012 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to
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Requested move
The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
Not moved. The target page exists with a different article. If this is likely to be the primary topic, then a new multipart nomination would be needed.
Vegaswikian (
talk)
21:19, 2 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the links. I can read, indeed: "If there are too few English-language sources to constitute an established usage, follow the conventions of the language appropriate to the subject".
Thanks. However,
#6 is in French. Here are some English sources that use "Nicholas":
[8][9]. Those, combined with the fact that this article's source is an article titled "
Nicholas Adam", somewhat undermine the too few English sources claim. —
AjaxSmack01:25, 28 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Support. Although I am strongly in favor of
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English), especially in relation to books, plays, films and other works of art, names represent a separate topic of discussion. In 18th, 19th and first half of 20th century, foreign personalities' given names which lent themselves to easy anglicizing were commonly anglicized. "Oskar" became "Oscar", "Aleksandr" became "Alexander" and so on. Many sources still reference
Tchaikovski as "Peter", rather than as "Pyotr". Now, hovever, other than for royalty (
Peter the Great,
Alexander I of Yugoslavia) and individuals who lived in the English-speaking world or preferred to be known by their anglicized name (
George Frideric Handel rather than
Georg Friedrich Händel), the practice has been to adhere to native spelling unless presented with overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
—Roman Spinner(talk)06:59, 28 January 2012 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.