Talk:Shcholkine

{{lang-uk}} and {{lang-ru}}

Hi Kazak! In responce to your edit summary: rv, within lang-uk and lang-ru scholarly transliteration is used. Actually, for Ukrainian articles (especially subdivision), we use the simplified Ukrainian National Translation system for transliterating Ukrainian languate names, as demonstrated in Wikipedia:Romanization of Ukrainian. —dima/talk/ 18:49, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

I understand that, but I was under the impression that we use the national system almost always for article titles and within the articles themselves. Within {{lang-uk}} and {{lang-ru}}, however, we use the scholarly system to most nearly approximate the original Cyrillic spelling. For example, in the article about Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky it refers to the composer by that spelling throughout the entire article and in the title, as that is the spelling by which he is known in English-speaking countries (and is the most understandable pronounciation-wise). Within {{lang-ru}}, however, his name is given as Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij because that is the scholarly transliteration- and closest Latin-alphabet approximation - of the Russian Пётр Ильич Чайковский. (I suggest we refrain from further reverts to the Shcholkine article until this dispute is resolved.) Cossack 19:08, 21 April 2007 (UTC)