Talk:Sumy
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Catholics in Sumy was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on May 12, 2008 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Sumy. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here. |
Russian name variant
Since Sumy is in the eastern part of Ukraine, adding the Russian variant is completely appropriate and a citation tag is ridiculous. --Taivo (talk) 23:07, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
But the Russian language is NOT official language in Ukraine. So the city of Sumy spelled in Russian is NOT appropriate. --68.36.49.223 (talk) 23:44, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- Doesn't matter what you think, anon IP. A significant percentage of Russian spellings are still found in English, so the Russian names for places in central and eastern Ukraine are quite appropriate. This is the English Wikipedia, not the official arm of the Ukrainian government. --Taivo (talk) 04:10, 30 December 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) 02:21, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
То, что во времена Царской России название было русское, а не украинское -- это не оправдание. Сейчас ведь на территории Украины для населённых пунктов действует "Romanization of Ukrainian", а не "Romanization of Russian". Спорных топонима только 2 -- Kiev и Odessa.--68.36.49.223 (talk) 21:59, 14 January 2012 (UTC)