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thanks for your help on the "Visa requirements ..." cleanup

much appreciated; there's hundreds of pages to tidy up and your efforts are most welcomed. Edward Vielmetti (talk) 18:39, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome! Tetromino (talk) 18:45, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What is your opinion? Share with us!

We are having problems to reach a stable consensus about removal of visa-free sections from the Passport articles. Please share your opinion with us here: Talk:Passport and here: a request for mediation Thanks. --Ozguroot (talk) 15:56, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"imeni Karla Libknekhta"

Please, look at the articles imeni Karla Libknekhta and imeni Karla Libknekhta, Kursk Oblast. They should be named imeni Karla Liebknechta and imeni Karla Liebknechta, Kursk Oblast, because the person was Karl Liebknecht (German name). --Finrus (talk) 10:56, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think that it doesn't matter how the name is spelled in German. For example, the city of ru:Тольятти is named for Palmiro Togliatti, but in English, the name of the city is usually given as Tolyatti, not Togliatti — i.e. it is transliterated directly from Russian, with no regard to the spelling of the Italian name on which the Russian one is based. --Tetromino (talk) 14:13, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

However, "Tolyatti's" name is e.g. in Czech cz: Togliatti, in German de: Togliatti, in French fr: Togliatti and in Italian it: Togliatti.

Furthermore, "imeni Karla Libknekhta" is at least in Estonian imeni Karla Liebknechta, et: Arutelu:Imeni Karla Liebknechta.

Best wishes, --Finrus (talk) 17:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you surprised that different languages don't use the same transcription for a given city or town? Even capitals of major countries can be spelled quite differently in different languages: en:Beijing, de:Peking, fr:Pékin, it:Pechino. If the Germans choose to call Тольятти Togliatti, that is their affair; their choice of spelling has no bearing on the English Wikipedia, and vice versa. --Tetromino (talk) 17:49, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You don't understand, e.g. Karl Liebknecht, John (Silas) Reed and Togliatti is already written in Latin alphabet.
It can not be that way:

Karl Liebknecht > Карл Либкнехт ~ "Karl Libknekht" > Karl Libknekht
John Silas Reed > Джон Сайлас Рид ~ "Dzhon Saylas Rid" > Dzhon Saylas Rid
Togliatti > Тольятти ~ "Tolyatti" > Tolyatti

--Finrus (talk) 13:42, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I do understand. You have your own personal view of what is logical ("if A is named after B, then A and B should use the same spelling"), and you are trying to apply that logic to Russian place names. What you do not understand is that all other Wikipedia users have a different view of what is logical — the one that is expressed in WP:RUS. If you want to rename Tolyatti to Togliatti or imeni Karla Libknekhta to Karla Liebknechta, the correct course of action is to try to build a consensus to change WP:RUS. I doubt that you will succeed — but you can certainly try. --Tetromino (talk) 14:33, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In every case, it is absurd that the place named after Palmiro Togliatti and Karl Liebknecht would be in English "Tolyatti" and "imeni Karla Libknekhta" - by the way, even the English kh reminds the German ch, there is not the second or third k in the Cyrillic transliteration: имени Карла Либкнехта, so the name should be (if we still like to be absurd): "imeni Karla Libknehta".

The Italian, German and English languages are written by Latin alphabet and the Russian transliteration can not change this.

--Finrus (talk) 12:51, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You should be voicing your concerns on WT:RUS, not on my talk page. Even if I agreed with you (which I do not), I cannot change Wikipedia guidelines for you. --Tetromino (talk) 08:59, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Tetromino,

I understand that you undid the changes I made to the Russian visa requirements page. I didn't know where and how I can discuss that first. However, the current format is a mess as well, I am sure you agree with me. I don't believe that visitors to the page are curious about the visa status of diplomatic and service passport holders. Why not bringing it in line with all the other visa requirement pages worldwide?

Best regards, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.181.104.125 (talk) 22:07, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

where and how I can discuss that first — on the article talk page, Talk:Visa requirements for Russian citizens. And I do not think that the current format is a mess. With your permission, I would prefer to continue the discussion there (i.e. on the article talk page), since this is something that other contributors to the article will likely want to voice their opinions about. — Tetromino (talk) 22:21, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Understood. Thanks for the correction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Josephua (talk • contribs) 19:29, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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