Talk:Czechland

RfC: Czech Republic or Czechia?

The consensus is that the link should be Czech Republic.

Cunard (talk) 23:31, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Should the link be the former or latter option? -- Gokunks (Speak to me) 22:28, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Survey

• Czechia
• Czech Republic

Threaded discussion

• Czechia per changing conventions in the world. Google Maps is even using this name now. -- Gokunks (Speak to me) 22:28, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
• Czech Republic is still the official name of the country, nothing changed. Google Maps are not a reliable source here. According to them, Crimea belongs to Russia now, which is not true. - Darwinek (talk) 20:02, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
• Czech Republic While google maps is correct regarding Crimea (you pass Russian border controls, are in the remit of the FSB and not SBU, and the Russian military is on the ground - legal/diplomatic claims aside - this is the reality on the ground) - it would seem that Czechia has not caught on yet, per 'Nobody calls it Czechia': Czech Republic's new name fails to catch on, Guardian or wapo, and also per a very simple google-news check in the past month - Czechia gNews, Czech Republic gnews - the difference in the number of hits (towards Republic) is staggering and I'll note that the hits for Czechia are of lower quality (e.g. press releases) or Jewish Week published in English outlets in countries where the local form is close to Czechia (e.g. Hebrew for Jewish Week which is run by Times of Israel)).Icewhiz (talk) 10:32, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
• Czech Republic Why should it link to a redirect? Is this an attempt to rename the article "Czech Republic" to "Czechia", it is in the wrong place. Or am I missing something? --T*U (talk) 08:27, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

I read the question as what should the text the reader sees be. The target of the link is a no-brainer. Wikipedia guidelines say we never link to a redirect. Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 17:10, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

• Czech Republic (Summoned by bot), Google Maps is not even reliable source. Needless change –Ammarpad (talk) 13:55, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
• Czech Republic According to reports, there's a strong possibility that the administration that put the change through is a about to be voted out of office, which means the controversial name change may go with them. I'd like see how that shakes out first.-GPRamirez5 (talk) 22:18, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
• Czech Republic - For the time being. No need to change just because Google Maps has. Meatsgains (talk) 04:16, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
• Czech Republic Until usage outside of Wikipedia changes drastically, it makes no sense to use Czechia anywhere here except as an acknowledged alternative term. We use WP:COMMONNAME, not new forms favoured by few. If, and when the real world situation changes, so can we. Pincrete (talk) 14:18, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
• Czech Republic per Icewhiz's research. Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 17:11, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
• Czech Republic, because it's the commonest name in English and there's no claim that it's inaccurate, confusing, discriminatory, or otherwise inappropriate. After all, WP goes with the commonest name (except that its editors are strangely dazzled by the "nobility", resulting in "Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon", etc). -- Hoary (talk) 23:23, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
• Czech Republic Hi all--summoned for Rfc. That Google maps shows differently than Czech Republic is a good observation. Perhaps it is an indicator of a beginning trend, something that may happen. However, until any trend significantly develops, let's keep it Czech Republic.Horst59 (talk) 20:04, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
• Can we all go home now? I've removed the RfC template as there doesn't seem to be a point in soliciting any further input (per WP:SNOW), but I'm not closing it formally in case anyone wishes to add anything. So, there's no way the link could be changed to something other than the title of the article (see MOS:DABPIPE), and the article isn't likely to be renamed any time soon (if it needs be, then WP:RM is the way to go). And if the question is about whether the descriptor inside the entry on this dab page should mention Chechia (and it's unclear if this is the case), then the take-home message from the discussion, if there is to be any, is that there's no support for that. Also, please don't start any more RfCs unless there has been at least some prior attempt at solving the issue via an informal discussion. Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 21:06, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

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