Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Turkey

Turkey's link to the balaclava?

I noticed that the balaclava article is listed as a WikiProject Turkey article. Is there a connection I am unaware of, or is this somebody confusing balaclava and baklava? Arjsd (talk) 02:30, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

+1 Youprayteas (talk) 11:02, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Coverage of neighborhoods in Turkey is not good and should be improved

Hello, I am trying to add articles for Turkish neighborhoods that actually deserve an article but don’t have one. I’m currently working on Draft:Caddebostan, Kadıköy and Draft:Erenköy, Kadıköy. I will soon also start draft pages for Suadiye, Kadıköy and Feneryolu, Kadıköy. If anyone is interested in helping, I would be very happy. Youprayteas (talk) 11:08, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

I will keep this in mind. Thanks for your contributions! ~eticangaaa (talk) 08:01, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

MOS:TR

Has no relation to Turkey/Turkish and no hatnote clarifying where to find the Manual of Style for Turkey/Turkish-related articles. Is there any such guide? or has it been overlooked so far?

WP:TR just redirects to some random editor's talk page, which should almost certainly be fixed but I'll leave it to you guys to point that out in the appropriate place. — LlywelynII 10:06, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Yanya

Copy/pasting from this official pdf from the Turkish government produces يانيه. Our vilayet article and Wiktionary entry are at یانیه. Those look the same but have different codepoints because one is using a ي and the other a ی.

Which one is right? or are they entirely interchangeable? If so, which one is the more correct base form? — LlywelynII 08:45, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Quarters of centers of a district and the district itself; the confusion and how do we fix it?

What I'm trying to say is that just like provinces, almost all districts in Turkey are named after their historical, central cities. For provinces, we seperate these two (ex. Çanakkale and Çanakkale Province) but for districts, both are merged into the same page. This issue has already been discussed in various talk pages of said articles. You'd think it is easy to fix this, just create a seperate page for the central quarter. Yes, though it is hard to create a seperate page for every district. My proposal is to create such pages only for very important districts of Turkey (such as Fatih, Beyoğlu, Beşiktaş, Şişli, Üsküdar, Kadıköy, Maltepe, Beykoz, etc.). This is a very difficult mission, but if multiple people work together, I'm sure we can solve this problem. What do you think? Youprayteas ^{talk/contribs} 18:22, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, this is an interesting idea, but with some practical problems. Unlike the Çanakkale example, there is no administrative unit "Üsküdar" apart from the district and municipality "Üsküdar". You may ask yourself what you would write in an article about the city centre of Üsküdar that would not fit in an article about the municipality. There are some exceptions, for instance there is a neighbourhood (mahalle) inside Beykoz district/municipality that is called Merkez (or "Beykoz Merkez"), perhaps some of the information that is specifically about the centre of Beykoz could go there. Markussep ^Talk 08:57, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

I have some comments.

1. Going with the current example, Çanakkale is the seat of the Çanakkale Province it is not, in itself, a municipality. The municipality for the city of Çanakkale is the Çanakkale District (for metropolitan municipalities the center city is divided into many districts, in that case each rule different areas of the central city.)

2. Not every district has a central neighbourhood, a lot of them have their centre divided too, even if they do have one, it might include a bigger or smaller area than the city itself.

3. It doesn’t actually matter if there is a municipality or not for the page created, for example Moda, Kadıköy is not a province, district, municipality, village or neighborhood but the page still exists because the settlement area exists. Youprayteas ^{talk/contribs} 13:08, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Actually there is a difference between Çanakkale District and the municipality of Çanakkale, since Çanakkale Province is not a metropolitan province. Therefore we have separate articles for the district and the town/municipality. I agree with your points 2 and 3. But what would you write in an article about the locality Maltepe, that would not be duplicating information that belongs in the article about the district/municipality of Maltepe? Markussep ^Talk 08:21, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

The thing is that yes, it’s true, everything would be the same, but the district page would be mainly about the admisitrative unit and not the settlements in it, and the district articles would be cut significantly. If you say this is a loss of enclopeadic information, I say no because everything that is mentioned in the district page about settlements other than Kadıköy are already written in a more detailed manner in their seperate pages. Youprayteas ^{talk/contribs} 13:19, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Anyone like to work together on Seismic retrofit?

Merhaba,

I just added this project to Seismic retrofit and rated it high importance. I see it has not yet been translated into Turkish. Is there a native Turkish speaker who would like to work together on improving the English article and later translating it?

It seems to me that might save lives in future, but I don’t have enough Turkish or enough stamina to attempt it by myself. Chidgk1 (talk) 06:28, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Or Urban seismic risk is a much smaller article - come on guys don’t you think this is important? Chidgk1 (talk) 06:27, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

I may contribute to it, but will be limited until end of May with this [1]. A lot of translations into Turkish in Turkish Wikpedia seems to be done by bots, that'd be a good starting point. Bogazicili (talk) 18:35, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Ispanaklı kek

Hello everyone, is Ispanaklı kek a notable dessert in Turkey? I'm thinking of nominating the article Spinach cake for deletion, but won't if this dessert is actually notable within Turkey. Cheers! BaduFerreira (talk) 02:21, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Not really mate, you can nominate it for deletion. Youprayteas ^{talk/contribs} 06:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Aksa (company)#Requested move 2 April 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Aksa (company)#Requested move 2 April 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 13:02, 17 April 2024 (UTC)