Talk:Cherkasy

April 27, 2006 Dear Folks, It would appear that the population figures for the city of Cherkasy, Ukraine, found under: Wiki > Cherkasy > Demographics , from 1970 to the present are missing their trailing zeros; thus reading ten times smaller that the accurate figures. This seems to be a typo, which i discovered during my studies of Chernobyl, as Cherkasy lies down river from Chernobyl. -Have not modified the Wiki entry for them yet, as my wifi connection is thin. I'm also interested if there have been any radiation studies this far from Chernobyl. very best regards, sgsmith, new orleans Sgsmith, nola 06:47, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, thank you for alerting about commas. I'll change them ASAP. Asking your question: yes, the whole territory of Ukraine is (or at least was) monitored for radiactive pollution. Study links on disaster page for maps and textual mentions. If you're asking about actual pollutions as far as around Cherkasy: yes, there may be small "spots" of pollution here and there in Ukraine. If you're asking whether it is safe to visit such spots shortly, I'd say "yes". Ukrained 18:48, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I think this article is already quite good, but it needs some improvement of English language preferrably by a native English speaker. I am not a native speaker, but I see some mistakes. It could also use some more references. Andries (talk) 08:37, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Cherkasy and Cherkassy

Ok, I can understand that in English we write Kharkov with Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk with Dnipropetrovsk. But why Cherkassy with two ss and in Russian? Russian is not official language in Ukraine and I hope never will be. Also English speaking people don't care if Cherkasy is wtitten with two ss or with one. So lets keep only Ukrainian wersion Cherkasy with one s. T--68.36.49.223 (talk) 16:09, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

This is English language Wikipedia. It is written for the benefit of English-speaking people. Both the single 's' and double 's' spellings are about equally common in English. A Google Books search for the two different spellings conducted on 13 September 2011 found:

• Cherkasy - 369 results
• Cherkassy - 318 results

(In each case I paged through to the final search result, as the initial figure shown tends to be an inflated figure.)

Most of Ukraine is bilingual, with both Ukrainian and Russian being used. Absurdly, the government insists on Russian language TV programmes having Ukrainian subtitles. Signs on major roads are in Ukrainian; but if you try to get a coach somewhere the signs are often in Russian (the state provides the road signs, private enterprise provides coaches). It is therefore useful for English Wikipedia to have both Ukrainian and Russian language place names.--Toddy1 (talk) 17:35, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Disagree. English speaking people should use only one name for every Ukrainian city. So lets write Moscow, Moskov, Moskva because some people want to write this way.--68.36.49.223 (talk) 00:58, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Please stop deleting useful information from the article.--Toddy1 (talk) 04:59, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Listen you Toddy, Russification of Ukraine never was useful... I can ask you the same, please stop to russify Ukrainian relative Wikipedia. Better read Taras Shevchenko. --68.36.49.223 (talk) 19:42, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a soapbox, a battleground, or a vehicle for propaganda. WP:SOAP You are not entitled to censor Wikipedia just because you seem to have something against one common English language spelling of Cherkassy, and the Russian language name for it. WP:CENSOR.--Toddy1 (talk) 21:57, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Toddy1 you are Russian nationalist--71.187.156.246 (talk) 19:43, 24 September 2011 (UTC) CHERKASY and only Cherkasy with one S should be written.--68.162.51.37 (talk) 00:08, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Nope, see WP:SOAP and WP:CENSOR. --Taivo (talk) 04:08, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Russian variants do no require citation

Standard Wikipedia practice in eastern Ukrainian, where as many as half of the population speaks Russian natively, is to include the Russian variants on placenames. No citation is necessary any more than a citation is necessary for placing the Ukrainian variant in placenames where the majority of the community speaks Russian as their first language (as in the Crimea). The citation tags were nothing more than WP:POINTy editing by an anonymous editor who is pushing an anti-Russian Ukrainian POV. Citations are not necessary for these things. --Taivo (talk) 02:14, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah right. Who created this policy? Should be only one spelling an it is Cherkasy with one S. Rusification of Ukraine continues... --68.36.49.223 (talk) 21:36, 14 January 2012 (UTC)