Talk:Bắc Ninh
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Requested move
[edit ]- The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 21:15, 19 July 2013 (UTC) [reply ]
- Bac Ninh → Bắc Ninh
- Lai Chau → Lai Châu
- Ninh Binh → Ninh Bình Ninh Bình
- Tay Ninh → Tây Ninh
- Ha Tinh → Hà Tĩnh
– (1) per continuing consensus across series of Vietnam geo RMs since 2011, (2) majority of last years RfC, (3) use of Vietnamese fonts in academic sources - e.g. hardback edition of Oxford Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, David G. Marr's latest book, etc. (4) consistent en.wp practice with other Latin-alphabet geo names. These are the same-name provincial capital cities of the same-name provinces among RM currently at Talk:Bac Ninh Province, i.e. Ninh Binh Province, Lai Chau Province. (Other same-name-as-province provincial capitals in current RM as Thanh Hóa capital of Thanh Hoa Province are already at Vietnamese names). In ictu oculi (talk) 02:34, 12 July 2013 (UTC) [reply ]
- support These aren't widely known in english-language media, and we should prefer proper spelling in these cases (also to match ongoing move on the provinces). --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 02:46, 12 July 2013 (UTC) [reply ]
- Again late to mention but there is also a RM at Talk:Bun rieu. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:21, 12 July 2013 (UTC) [reply ]
- support; for reasons above. Colonies Chris (talk) 16:53, 13 July 2013 (UTC) [reply ]
- Support. Wikipedia typically does not strip diacritics from placenames (e.g., Baħar Iċ-Ċagħaq, Însurăței) unless the name in question is an exonym (e.g., Munich for München). — AjaxSmack 02:39, 17 July 2013 (UTC) [reply ]
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
Move discussion in progress
[edit ]There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Cao Bằng which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 01:48, 1 March 2017 (UTC) [reply ]
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