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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: all moved. Favonian (talk) 13:18, 24 May 2012 (UTC)Reply


– First black French MP in 1898, and several related martiniquais socialist bios, article sources all in French. The original creator of this set of pages, User Gazelle, evidently tried to copy French names from French Assembly Website but missed some of them. Under normal circumstances would consider these totally uncontroversial moves per WP:MOVE and WP:UE "If this happens, follow the conventions of the language in which this entity is most often talked about (German for German politicians, Turkish for Turkish rivers..)" In ictu oculi (talk) 11:08, 17 May 2012 (UTC)Reply


...reason for putting them through RM is that there have been attempts to remove WP:MOSPN "Foreign proper names written in languages which use the Latin alphabet often include characters with diacritics, ligatures and others that are not commonly used in modern English. Wikipedia normally retains these special characters, except where there is a well-established English spelling that replaces them with English standard letters.", not that that is the only guideline supporting use of reliable orthographic sources, and at the request of User GoodDay, here they are... In ictu oculi (talk) 11:08, 17 May 2012 (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. No further edits should be made to this section.

Commons files used on this page or its Wikidata item have been nominated for deletion

edit

The following Wikimedia Commons files used on this page or its Wikidata item have been nominated for deletion:

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 19:39, 13 April 2020 (UTC)Reply