Talk:North Macedonia/name

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falsification of History

Although I´m not Greek I insist on keeping the official name - FYROM. Wikipedia shouldn´t support any falsification of history! Keep the official international name - Republic of Macedonia is acknowledgen by Turkey only! Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Filip36 (talk • contribs) 16:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

This article about the "republic of Macedonia" contains misleading information and inappropriate content. Under UN agreement in no way should any document state the F.Y.R.O.M. under the name of Macedonia of Republic of Macedonia. This article should be put under the F.Y.R.O.M. one and should be protected. I am inclined to believe that Wikipedia will act accordingly to best of everybody's interest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deafakos (talk • contribs) 11:08, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not answer to the UN, nor any other body. We make distinctions for article based on our own evaluations, it appears that the common English name Republic of Macedonia, or just simply Macedonia. This is also what the country calls it self. This article is not the first, nor the last name dispute, but in this case, if you look t the pages archives you will find that you are only one of hundreds of people who complained, we've been over this before. If we changed the name to FYROM, the people in Skopje would be just as offended as the Greeks. The horse is dead, stop flogging it. Samuell Lift me up or put me down 04:37, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

SO you believe it is better to abuse it than change it to something mutually accepted... This is a pretty "undemocratic" way of thinking... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.88.190.34 (talk) 11:16, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I doubt Samuell is an official Wikipedia admin... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.103.139.110 (talk) 18:13, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

The fact is, the name FYROM is not mutually accepted, otherwise the country would call itself that. Wikipedia is not a democracy we work by consensus and discussion, not voting. And being an admin just gives you a few technical features such as deleting and protecting pages, it doesn't make you a spokesperson or give you much authority. The policies that support what I said before can be found here and here.Samuell Lift me up or put me down 20:48, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

You are contadicting youself here. How can you reach a consensus without democratic processes and no voting? There is no consensus without measuring the "consensus". If someone reports something ABUSIVE about you and this person claimed that it was true then what would you do? Naming FYROM as Republic of Macedonia is abusive to Greeks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deafakos (talk • contribs) 01:18, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

And naming Macedonia FYROM is abusive to Macedonians.Silvery Swirls (talk) 15:20, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Fyrom is not on macedon soil its in Dardani and Paeonian soil.Megistias (talk) 15:23, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Why doesn't FYROM call itself Vardarska or Paeonia? Would it offend them? Is it more fair to take a nation's history (I'm referring to Greece) and call it your own? What kind of justice is this?79.130.177.215 (talk) 12:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

For what its worth, I've heard far more objections from "pow wow" type Indians than "red dot" type Indians about the use of the word "Indian", and it seems kind of silly to me that the Greeks are objecting to some other country's choice of name, as if they had some sort of a trademark on it or something. Its as absurd as if someone named Joe declared that there would no longer be allowed to be any other people named Joe. A country decides its own name. This is pretty simple stuff, and the Greek objections to what another nation calls itself are stupid and immature. Zaphraud (talk) 15:11, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

It is only by survival instinct that skopje want to take greece's history, i would too if i had no history of my own worth talking about, but we should just stick to the facts here and all agree that no matter how much anyone tries to take other nations historical facts and make them their own, we the people will not allow it."Macedonia and Alexander the Great are and will always be Greek" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.116.111 (talk) 20:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Move to F.Y.R.O.M

As soon as the latest NATO decision has been postponed, the name should be changed to FYROM. Anything else violates the temporary decision in 1992 about this country's name. Now if you want just to obey to what the USA says, you may keep it as 'Macedonia'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by WindowsNT (talk • contribs) 21:03, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Can someone please move this whole page and all of its detial into Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia because that is exactly what it is. That is how the UN recognizes it and besides, Macedonia as a place is much bigger in Greece to where it culturally belongs. We can't go ignoring UN policy and more countries recognize FYROM including all of the improtant lands: Western and Central Europe etc. One more thing, Alexander the Great was not FYROM-Macedonian because he lived years before the Slavs came along. Antun Gustav (talk) 11:34, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not answer to the UN or any other organization or country. The country calls itself Republic of Macedonia so that is the more common English name (and probably the most neutral). The horse is dead, stop flogging it. Samuell Lift me up or put me down 22:38, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Obviously it should be referred as FYROM simply as that's how UN recognizes -and they themselves accept it that way- and UN is the ultimate place for any de-jure recognition of any state (along with name etc).I mean that's start up things for anyone involved in politics and international law.Otherwise we could name ourselves Republic of Apache and claim billions of dollars for Apache genocide by settlers.Or the Hustler's Republic and hustle anyone within our territory.I mean there is a law you know and UN are the ultimate judge on this law. BTW how ROM is the most "neutral" name.Hhaha lol Eagle of Pontus (talk) 17:24, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Ahahahahahahahahhaahahhahahaha. BalkanFever 02:03, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

And I lough upon you, troll. Stop insulting us. 87.221.4.107 (talk) 23:20, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Going with that line of reasoning, there should not be an article named Taiwan at all since Taiwan is not recognized by the UN. As Samuell said it, stop trying to beat a dead horse. I think this issue has been discussed over and over with everyone trying to push their favorite POV.--Ubardak (talk) 02:19, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Exactly. The archives of this article, the archives of Macedonia naming dispute, the archives of Macedonian language and the archives of Macedonians (ethnic group), among others, all mention this. BalkanFever 02:30, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

It is obvious that the name of this article is another proof of the many cases where Greeks can get away with murder in Wikipedia...--   Avg    02:47, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Fute can be so very entertaining when he wants to, can't he? ·ΚέκρωΨ· (talk) 07:52, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

It should not be called FYROM because the UN recognizes it as that. It should also not be called RoMacedonia because YES THERE ARE SOME RESERVED WORDS FOR COUNTRY NAMES. It should be called RoMacedonia (formerly FYROM), pendig naming issue. 79.103.155.16 (talk) 22:27, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Government of Republic of Macedonia never signs any documents with a name different than the constitutional. For example see this [1] and "I consider this Exchange of Letters as the equivalent of signature." wording. --Kirev (talk) 15:55, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

A pity that its constitutional name is a big lie that will never exist, as Macedonia is Greek my friend. Vardarska is how they should sign. Good game. 87.221.4.107 (talk) 23:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

• I think Ubardak you must reevaluate your knowledge.FYROM accepted entrance and is accepted as such in UN.RO Taiwan didn't.Don't you see a Pacific ocean of difference;;;;For Christ shake. Eagle of Pontus

Maybe you should reevaluate your knowledge. The Republic of Macedonia did not change its name, it just allowed the UN to use a provisional reference. You don't actually care though, you're just "offended" by the "misuse" of the name Macedonia, and in regards to what you think, no-one cares. BalkanFever 09:58, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

And I think that maybe it is you who should reevaluate his knowledge, huh? Republic of Macedonia is an illegal name that claims upon Greek history and upon Greek territory. It is about you Skopjans, that no one cares. We had enough of your propaganda. You know what we say is true, it is in every history book, but you insist on usurping recklessly our identity. We really really had enough Yugoslavians. STOP your anti-Greek POV and your propaganda. The world has had enough of your lies. 87.221.4.107 (talk) 23:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

• To User BalkanFever and all BalkanFevers: Yes we do care. If Skopje would like to be called Macedonia, this is fine. We,Greeks have no problem as soon as it pays taxes.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Magicheader (talk • contribs) 06:45, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Maybe you should have asked :). BalkanFever 07:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Your country is all bought by the National Bank of Greece. All what you have about industry is Greek. All the food you eat is coming from Greece. You dare bite the hand of who feeds you? You obviously have neither morale nor dignity. The lies of Skopje have been so many and so long that they contradict themselves... 87.221.4.107 (talk) 23:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Please kickbankill BalkanFever for trolling. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.97.51.67 (talk) 14:03, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Until the naming dispute is solved FYROM is the generaly accepted name. Only the US recognised Scopje with its constitutional name. Because of that they should be ignored (the US) by the general public. Their opinion (because is only an opinion) shouldn't be taken into account seriously... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stamatisg (talk • contribs) 22:43, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Please, rename to the United Nations form at once. 213.97.51.67 (talk) 14:10, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

"Republic of Macedonia" is total anti-Greek POV and fully Skopjan nationalist POV. Please, rename the article to FYROM as stated by the United Nations and stop trolling and vandalizing the page with your nationalist POV. 87.219.84.68 (talk) 00:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I totally agree, if Wikipedia and the administrators believe they are objective then I strongly recommend that they don't allow propaganda and nationalism in this site79.130.177.215 (talk) 12:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I completely agree as well. Move to FYROM already. Stop telling lies to people! Macedonia is Greek. Yugoslavia is no more. Wake up! Our national bank of Greece has bought all your land, so "all your base are belong to us"... So owned! 87.221.4.107 (talk) 23:13, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

The above users are becoming a bit tiresome with their repetitive racist attacks. In their view, everybody who doesn't share their opinion should be banned and it should be a crime to call Macedonia Macedonia. I suggest some administrator look into the behaviour of some of these users, as they are repeatedly attacking other users alongside their racist attacks directed towards Macedonia.JdeJ (talk) 23:44, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

The above user, JdeJ has clearly shown his biased, anti-Greek opinion and has used psycho logic attacks like warnings on the user pages and attempts

of censorship and has used censorship on Greek users. He is becoming annoying with his obstinacy and his will to harm Greeks. I suggest some administrator look into the behavior of this user together with all others that have posted anti-Greek comments, as they are repeatedly attacking Greek users alongside their propaganda, lies and insults such as the above, calling them racists. It is a real proof that Macedonia is Greek and that FYROMians are trying to usurp Greek history and territory, and he is the kind of person that supports such terrorist acts. 87.221.4.107 (talk) 00:08, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, I try to uphold the Wikipedia policies of WP:MOSMAC and [WP:NPOV]]. While that include edits that the now-blocked user above dislike, they also include opposite edits [2], [3]. And I strongly object to calling "Greeks" racist, I never generalise about any nationality. I've only called the user above racist, and his edit history proves me right. JdeJ (talk) 08:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

I have to disagree with you JdeJ. It is historical fact that Skopjans helped the Nazis and Greeks fought against them. Minorities on each sides always existed doing the opposite, but that was not the official move by each government. On the other hand, you have to understand how delicate it is for Greeks to have their history and territory taken over by the Salvs-Skopjans and that it is pretty logical that if 'Republic of Macedonia' is being used, it is first in favor of one group, and second a defiance on the United Nations naming convention. On the other hand, I see that no one of your so called racist-Greeks and POV posters has ever claimed the article to be renamed to 'Republic of Skopje', which is how all Greeks call the country and urge everyone to call it. Instead of that, all the Greeks that have talked here, have asked to take the neutral approach 'FYROM', which could keep both sides partially content. In other words, Skopjans want 'Republic of Macedonia' which is unbalanced. Greeks would prefer 'Republic of Skopje', but are tolerant and willingful to a peaceful end and would allow the use of 'FYROM', even though they still do not like it. In conclussion, using FYROM would be the best choice to keep this article neutral and stop this bitter and endless fight. Otherwise, I am pretty sure more Greeks shall follow claiming that Wikipedia is biased, unobjective and illegal, as it is proving through these moments, where the administrators are favoring one side and defying the United Nations. 87.219.85.149 (talk) 20:25, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

There's no country named Macedonia, and if you dont know this you can jump to United Nations site and check it out. There are so many other issues, but i think its stupid to even mention them. Of course Alexander the Great was Greek. He spoke Greek. Why these half Albanians-half Slavs dont speak Greek (if they are Macedonians?). ¶ So, its wise for all Greek people to take legal action against wikipedia, cause our History is the most important thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikitas72 (talk • contribs)

No court in the world would take a lawsuit, we are not required to call the country FYROM. And please don't insult anyone, regardless of what ethnicity they are, if they want their own country, they can have it, and they can call it what they like. Samuell Lift me up or put me down 21:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Go ahead. Let's everyone send a CEASE AND DESIST letter to wikipedia! Enough is enough! 213.97.51.67 (talk) 13:2http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107738.html2, 1 April 2008 (UTC)/

By naming this article as Republic of Macedonia you do not follow the policy of Neutral Point of View of Wikipedia. Once again, the official name of the country you call "Macedonia" is Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia according to U.N.. If you do not obey Wikipedia's policy and rules then Wikipedia is blogctionary (blog & dictionary) in which anyone can say what they think about a topic. In this way, Wikipedia cannot "compete" Britanicca within 100,000,000,000,000,000 milleniums!!!! Goal of Wikipedia is to inform and not to misinform! To sum up, I call the moderators or/and the administrator of the English Wikipedia to rename this article or else this article must be deleted because of Point Of View of the writer/s. Chronis_25 Greek User of Wikipedia

How original, yet another Greek anonymous user who thinks that everybody has to think like she does because her opinion is the only allowed opinion to have. Of course anyone is free to express their opinions, but how often do we have to read the same ill-argumented rants? JdeJ (talk) 11:00, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Dear JdeJ could you explain me why do you support Skopje? I ask once again from the administrator and the moderators to rename this article from "Republic of Macedonia" to "Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia-F.Y.R.O.M." provisionally until the United Nations decide the name of F.Y.R.O.M.. This is the only solution! The site infoplease.com says that: "The UN recognized the Republic of Macedonia on April 8, 1993, under the temporary name the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia." Respect greek history and Greece. Chronis_25 Greek User of Wikipedia

Why I support Skopje? Nah, I don't, never even been there. It's just that there are a few things I dislike. Ethnic cleansing and mass rape are two of them, and that's the way the Greeks "assimilated" the Slavic speakers after they took the area from the Turks. Greeks bragged about this themselves at the time, so there's plenty of written evidence for it. I also happen to dislike extreme and one-sided nationalism in any form and I'm sad to say that I've travelled most of Europe and found some Greeks to be the least educated about the rest of Europe and the most bigotted in their fanaticism about their own country. Add to this that no other country has treated its minorities as badly as Greek and France, and there's not really that much to like about the Greek policy towards minorities and neighbours. That's of course only my personal view without any relevance to Wikipedia, but that's what you asked for. I also find the Greek behaviour over Macedonia rather silly and childish. When did you hear Belgium behave in the same way towards Luxembourg?? JdeJ (talk) 13:53, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Why lowercase 'former'?

Why should 'former' be spelled without capitals? I'm just curious. diego_pmc (talk) 23:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

See Macedonia naming dispute#Compromise solutions and look for the bullet points about two thirds of the way through that section - they explain why. -- ChrisO (talk) 23:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Nationalism in Wikipedia

Thank you for letting me speak here. I have posted again and it appears that somebody deleted my post but nonetheless, I believe it's the right of everyone to post their ideas. I think that we all are hiding behind our bare fingers, trying to persuade the world that Vardarska is in fact the nation of Macedonia. This nation is the making of Tito and the independence of Vardarska in the early 1990s. What I see that makes me utterly disappointed is the very fact that nationalists and fanatics have the control of this article and don't allow different opinions to be heard. By all means I could call my house the independent, ethnic state of London, New York, Alsace or Rome.

According to the same logic, I can say that it was my fathers that forged the British Empire, my fathers that made the USA or claim that I'm an ethnic Alsacian (We all know that this territory contains german and french populace) or even claim that the Roman Empire was my ethnic territory and claim it through propaganda.

Tell me: Would this appeal to any of you? Would this get this encyclopedia any further? Would extreme nationalism and propaganda benefit any of us? Since I started visiting this site I believed that it was objective and that it was in fact a site that checks all information, and by that I mean historical sources and not proclaimations of people. Why would the Skopians feel offended if they were to be called with their true name? Slavomacedonians or Vardar Macedonians would sound offensive? But wouldn't it be more offensive for the regions of Macedonia in Bulgaria and Greece to have an actual state being called with their name? I haven't seen such problems rise between Bulgaria and Greece since the Balkan Wars and WW2.

To conclude, I speak as an objective person that sees Greece and Bulgaria more offended than the Skopians themselves. What I see is a direct violation of history, political protocols and above all, national heritage. If the Skopians direly want to be called with the name "Macedonia" the only thing they need to consider is paying taxes to Greece.

I believe that as many of you claim that this site is objective you will allow this post to be read by visitors. Truly yours79.130.177.215 (talk) 12:05, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Objective person?? Don't make us laugh! --Áñtò | Ãňţõ (talk) 18:32, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

The Economist mentions this bitter name dispute on their magazine

About the Macedonia name conflict, The Economist wrote:

"If the Olympic games featured an event that measured stubborness and prejudice, the partisans from the Wikipedia talk page dealing with the name wrangle could form a world-class joint team."

Link to the article: http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/europeview/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10879850

Very funny! LOL Good job people, you are an Olympic team!!!!⇨ EconomistBR ⇦ Talk 19:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Yay! BalkanFever 23:49, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

A shame on us... The worse thing is that the trolling and fighting from both sides continued in the comments of the article of the economist. Can both sides relax a little? I'm pretty sure we'll have a final solution on the name issue very soon. 87.219.85.149 (talk) 00:00, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Adding that FYROM does not claim Greek history and territory

I think that in order to calm down things a little bit, it would be wise to add to the article the declarations of the Skopjan President and his ministers, stating that:

1) They do not want to claim any ancient Greek history related to the ancient Macedonia and Alexander the Great.

2) They do not have any territorial claims on Greece and that their constitution clearly forbids it.

3) That they know they are slavs that have nothing to do with the ancient Macedonia and have made clear that everything that was attacking Greek history or territory was spread by propagandistic irredentists who have no official nor legal power to do so.

NOTE: I'm trying to be productive here. If you find any other text that could be added so that fellow Greek users will calm down, go ahead. Goodwill is always welcome.
87.219.85.149 (talk) 20:29, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I am not going to discuss for the history of macedonia since there is nothing to argue about,everyone that have study even a litle about history know the truth.I am going to give a simple example about what will happen if greeks dont do anything about the name issue and just leave fyrom to be call as they want. Yesterday i was talking with a friend of mine from Moldavia and he ask me why Greece make all that noise with the name issue of Macedonia. I show him the map of greece and told him that Macedonia is the north part of Greece e.t.c ..... and he answers back to me i can understand now why you have that position and then he told me that both romania and ukraine have some regions of them and they call there regions moldavia and they were before moldavias teritories.I dont know what is true about moldavia but i know if now will let them have their country name as our region Macedonia after some years these people going to say the exacly same thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.131.55.194 (talk) 11:01, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I didn't come here to fight. Of course not. But, if you take into account the fact that Greece and Skopje are now into a "political war", then I believe that you'll be able to understand that the name problem hasn't been resolved yet. This means that you should use the OFFICIAL NAME of the country, which is Skopje, when you are going to refer it to your article. Naming it "Republic of Macedonia" means that the only thing you're managing to succeed is trying to persuade the majority of internet users worldwide (because they are the majority of the people, too and they have a lot "hidden power" into their mind) to use that such a name of that country. So, I advise you to change it to Skopje or AT LEAST at F.Y.R.O.M. in order not to get into trouble with the Greek Politicians and many other people all over the world that know the truth about that topic. That's all from me!

I hope you'll take my opinion into account... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vangelis-Ts (talk • contribs) 15:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

What Greek politicians think ?? booo booo booo

Very important . We are so scared how some bunch of politicians thinks about this issue.

We all do respect culture of ancient Greek culture. But that does not give monopole to modern Greece for "truth" in this case.

Macedonians have right to calle their country as they want to .!! Those Greek insistings of renaming of the country is indescend and nonsence. We two countries named Kongo , two countries named Korea ...

There is only one Macedonia and that is one whose capital is Skopje. That is the OFFICIAL NAME of the country and only accurate one. The province of Greece with the same name is for Greek usage only . --Anto (talk) 13:39, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Stop your irredentist propaganda. Why do you steal Greek history and territory? 50 years ago you called your country Vardarska Badovina. What happened to that now? Why do you so ruthlessly try to take what is not yours in any way? Accorting to one of the resolutions of the United Nations related to the right of culture, you have violated it overwhelmingly. Why don't you stop already with your propaganda? Why are you spreading your lies to wikipedia? Stop at once, please. --87.221.5.240 (talk) 21:06, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia was not influenced by anyone. we chose what is the common English name. If you are still dissatisfied I suggest you go the the [Greek Wikipedia's article] on The Republic of Macedonia, which uses Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, because it is the common Greek name. Samuell Lift me up or put me down 22:43, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

If you are not Greek, you cannot be Macedonian. It's plain simple. Macedonians were Hellenes, you are Slavs. You changed your name from Vardarska Badovina to Macedonia in 1950 with your beloved Tito. What are you trying to pull now?

--87.221.5.107 (talk) 14:34, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

You, Hellens, should stop torturing Macedonians and leave them . This is not period of Sokrates and your opinion is not in charge. --Anto (talk) 18:58, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Please Anto, refrain from pushing propaganda into wikipedia. Distorting history will only cause more wrath and anger. This article is still lacking a detailed explanation about how Tito changed the name of this territory known as Vardarska Badovina in the 1950's. Please, if you really respect the neutral point of view of wikipedia, add that already to the article. The world deserves to know it. --87.221.5.107 (talk) 21:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

• • If you think that name "Macedonia" is Greek feud you are very very wrong. The rest of the world does recognize that name. There are two countries named Kongo, two countries named Korea...

This is not ancient Europe but modern Europe in which majority know  for only one Macedonia-
Republic of Macedonia. If Macedonians decide to change their name it will be by their own decision - not somebody's else

Vardarska Banovina did not include just the territory of Republic of Macedonia-it include also contemporary Kosovo and southern Serbia . And Macedonians did call theselves with that name much before Tito came to power-which proves that you are not really informed abou the history of Yugoslavia--Anto (talk) 20:01, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Actually... there is a precedent for forcing a state to change its name. After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and from 1918 it was known as the Republic of German-Austria (Republik Deutsch-Österreich), but the state was forced to change its name to "Republic of Austria" in 1919 peace Treaty of Saint-Germain! It is now still known as Austria. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.161.231.107 (talk) 08:31, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

The final criterion

What is more important for wikipedia? How the country calls itself or under which name it is recognized by official international bodies?

Since wikipedia is an international encyclopedia it should adopt the name recognized by official international bodies. That name is FYROM.77.49.116.95 (talk) 04:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

If you look at Talk:Republic_of_Macedonia#Incorrect_again you will see that FYROM is just a provisional name that the UN uses internally until the name dispute is resolved --Enric Naval (talk) 07:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

So provisionally it should be called FYROM. When their name changes, we'll change it here. --87.221.5.161 (talk) 14:17, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

No, their official name is Republic of Macedonia, FYROM is an provisional name used internally by the UN. Also, see the list of countries using one or other name --Enric Naval (talk) 04:33, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

So correct those countries too. You cannot be insulting a country just for your own sake. --87.221.4.129 (talk) 21:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

No, the legal name is FYROM. Why has wikipedia to go against United Nations conventions? Examples like Myanmar are invalid here. Calling the country Macedonia has irredentism and Wikipedia definitely should not take part of it. Using FYROM is the right way to go until a final name is decided. If you call it Macedonia, you balance it to one side and there you break the NPOV. If you call it Skopje, you balance it to the other side and again you break NPOV. The only way to keep NPOV here is to have both countries content with FYROM. --87.219.84.198 (talk) 00:41, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Like I clearly say above, FYROM is a name used internally by the UN, stop ignoring that. The country calls itself officially "Republic of Macedonia" --Enric Naval (talk) 02:13, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Like clearly stated above you are completely ignoring international legality and pledging wikipedia in unnecessary legal doubt. Use the UN name temporarily until the country gets a proper name. This name has to be used wherever Greeks are in order to offend them *less*. The simple fact that Macedonia is in the name of the country is a horrible offense to Greeks. The fact that they are magnanimous and allow their use as FYROM does not mean you have to give it as something defacto. Again please, rename to the legally accepted name and not whatever they want to call themselves, specially in a situation where their name is an insult to another nation. I want to remind you that wikipedia is hosted inside a country under the UN legislation and, as such, has to respect it. We have to stop their propaganda, and this is the beginning. Do you understand now? —Preceding unsigned comment added by (talk) 04:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I advise you to re-read UN conection. The name is for external use, and must compulsorily be respected when there are Greeks around. Please, remember that Greeks refuse completely the use of the word Macedonia in any country where there is no Greek majority. FYROM is a name used to keep the Neutrality in the United Nations and in wikipedia we have to respect NPOV. If the wisest men on earth that lead the UN have chosen UN as a valid external name to reference the country, who are we to fight them? Show up some respect for international law please. --87.221.4.229 (talk) 21:21, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Former Turkish pashalik of Hellenistan

I really don't understand why should we consider how Greek or any other country see Macedonia is beeing called by some 3rd country. Greeks have right to call Macedonia with their own name. But they have no right to impose that name to others , especially not to Macedonians. And each nation has right to choose its name. --Áñtò | Ãňţõ (talk) 20:03, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Question

Moved from Talk:Republic_of_Macedonia#Question --Enric Naval (talk) 02:45, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello, i would like someone from the english wikipedia to inform me of the reasons why such an internationally controversial name as "Republic of Macedona" is used to refer to the spesific state instead of the internationally commonly used name of FYROM ordained. It is not the Fyromian wikipedia, but the english one and i believe it should be neutral on such a controversial matter, abiding by the internationally accepted practice.--Dimorsitanos (talk) 22:17, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

What will it take to change the name of the article.

The main talk page talks clearly of discussion being done here that would make a change possible. What will it take for that to happen? --Leladax (talk) 07:19, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

How about Greece and that-other-country :D reaching an agreement on the name and finishing the naming dispute? Or Macedonia agreeing to change his name to something that Greece accepts. Or most countries on the world switching to the FYROM name. --Enric Naval (talk) 08:04, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

So if Macedonia changes its name to something Greece wants and the world still calls it 'Macedonia', it changes? That's a double standard. --Leladax (talk) 08:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Woah, I didn't say that. I can't imagine the country changing its name to one that is accepted by Greece, and then the world insisting on using a different name. I am not going to analize every possible situation that could happen, I just listed a few ones that look like the most probable ones, and that would cause the change of name. --Enric Naval (talk) 10:27, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Or what about Greece accepting the constitutional name of its neighbour and starting to behave in a more responsible way, along the lines of Belgium's behaviour towards Luxembourg, which is pretty identical situation to the Greece-Macedonia one. JdeJ (talk) 12:01, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

First read some historical book, then take o look at Fyrom's "point of view" (historical and territorial) and then you will realize why Greece is not accepting that name ;-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sakis79 (talk • contribs) 03:06, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

And you should realize that - while claims of direct lineage with Ancient Macedon are ridiculous - those living in FYR Macedonia today didn't invent their name. It's another of the side effects of the Ottoman Empire and generally the passage of time. People living in the general Area all took the same name 'Macedonian'. For your information, it's not just FYR Macedonian's claiming it, it's also Bulgarians (which played some part in the early Balkan wars). Once more Greece does nothing at the appropriate time, it would be prudent in the interest of its objective to seek resolution with the Bulgarian side too (but something like that may be of course impossible, as it was to do it for FYR Macedonians before their institutionalization). FYR Macedonia existed with (almost) the same name since the 1940s. (ps. Basically I came to realize Wikipedia is a terrible source on the issue currently. However a good source for any side on the issue is Macedonia (terminology)). Outsiders though should realize that Greece mainly cares about recognition of its historical heritage and only secondarily about any territorial claims or even the use of the name. We are very used to words of our language being used by others and we are proud of it. But claim you are direct successors of Ancient Greeks while coincidentally (for any (even understandable) reason that may be) you have the name of one of their areas which is at the same time an area of the country today, that's not only offensive, it's unsupported by the historical record. --Leladax (talk) 05:54, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Of course we care about our historical heritage and that's the main issue... but since they use the name "Macedonia", claiming a part of that history, that is unacceptable from us! Some people say that we have nothing to do with ancient Greece and ancient Greeks, well i can't prove anything by dna (and i find it ridiculous), but i know for sure that i speak the same language they spoke (i can read the ancient inscriptions), the majority of the Greek people have ancient Greek names (mine, my brother's, my sister's, my mother's), our cities still use ancient Greek names, we still have have some traditions from that era, some of the Greek people believe in the 12 gods of mount Olympus... what do the people from FYROM share historically with the ancients? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sakis79 (talk • contribs) 22:44, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Or what about not going off topic. That's where the derail of the topic starts. --Leladax (talk) 03:58, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

This is getting a tad annoying, Leladax. 3rdAlcove (talk) 20:13, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Anything else off topic and inflammatory you'd like to add? --Leladax (talk) 20:26, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Admission of the truth in the Olympics, Beijing 2008

As the entire world witnessed, the very same country that claims to be "Macedonia" has appeared as "FYROM" in the Olympics Introduction Ceremony . They probably do not even believe what they claim themselves. I therefore do not see why the Wikipedia community has to consider the name anymore. The name should be permanently changed to "FYROM" , the country's official name, until the dispute with Greece is resolved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by WindowsNT (talk • contribs) 16:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Good try, but Macedonia actually attempted to use its constitutional name. They were forced by Greece to use FYROM "under a longstanding agreement between Athens and Skopje [that the constitutional name] cannot be used by the neighboring country at international sporting events like the Olympics." [4] --Enric Naval (talk) 17:36, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

In these cases, it is not Greece who "forces" an IOC member, and enforces a decision, but it is IOC itself.--Yannismarou (talk) 16:07, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Or rather, the vicepresident of IOC, Lambis Nikolau, who happens to be greek, has raised a complaint to IOC's chief [5], which is a far call from the IOC forcing anything. --Enric Naval (talk) 16:18, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Eric, who raises a complaint or not is irrelevant. I do not care about background and internal balance stories. I care about institutions and official decisions. IOC is an international athletic institution and took a decision, which was enforced. End of the story!--Yannismarou (talk) 17:02, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but, altought we don't know the exact details, it seems that Greece is the one that has menaced with making a scandal and not the IOC. The IOC has enforced nothing, it has just communicated Greece's complaints. --Enric Naval (talk) 19:35, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

And where is the problem? It is a FYR Macedonia-Greece dispute. Who should try to see it came into effect, god? --Leladax (talk) 12:15, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I was replying to Yannismarou's comment about enforcement. --Enric Naval (talk) 12:49, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Sure. The entire world saw them. "Forced by Greece" , when they have so badly insulted Greece all the time. They were forced by the National Union and the Olympic commitee to admit the truth. WindowsNT (talk)

You have to love the way the incident was presented in the objective Slav Macedonian media. [6]--   Avg    19:54, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

This page is for discussions on the name, not for discussion on how Balkan people think. --Enric Naval (talk) 12:51, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Unfortunately, all people in the Balkans, Greeks and Macedonians included, are notoriously bad at being objective. JdeJ (talk) 16:35, 9 August 2008 (UTC) That comment of yours is patronising, to say the least, and even borderline racist. Asteriontalk 09:32, 10 August 2008 (UTC) No, not really. He's quite right. BalkanFever 09:43, 10 August 2008 (UTC) I'm from the Balkans too and I object of this self-loathing attitude. If you are convinced you are incapable of objective thought it is your own problem, don't load it on me and all my relatives and all that I have ever lived near in my life. That is bigotry. --Leladax (talk) 12:13, 10 August 2008 (UTC) The statement is more about the media than anything else. And no, you're not objective. BalkanFever 12:16, 10 August 2008 (UTC) Besides, you say you are a native english speaker. Where exactly are you from? Who are you that thinks should be on a high horse generalizing about whole populations that you have never had real contact with? Have you ever met any Greeks, other than any 18 year olds that watch football or something? I repeat that I object of the bigoted attitude of generalizing whole populations. --Leladax (talk) 12:22, 10 August 2008 (UTC) Yeah, right, I live in a far away place where there are houses are made of chocolate and we eat fairy floss for breakfast. I don't even know where the Balkans are. You're from Cambodia, right? BalkanFever 12:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC) It appears you have no argument. --Leladax (talk) 12:37, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Regardless of what happens at the Olympics, the common English name is still Macedonia.Samuell Lift me up or put me down 23:12, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

OK, let's wrap it then, delete this article and everything in wikipedia that has to do with the dispute. Don't be ridiculous. --Leladax (talk) 12:10, 10 August 2008 (UTC)