Talk:Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland

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The result of the move request was: I am closing this move request, consensus seems to be that it's a correct transliteration, if goofy-sounding in English. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 08:39, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

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Medal of the 10th-Anniversary of People's Poland → ? – Something looks odd with the current name. "10th-Anniversary"? "People's Poland"? Is this even correct English grammar? Or should it be something like "Medal of the 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland"? Gryffindor (talk) 22:54, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Comment. However this RM goes, "10th-Anniversary" cannot be supported, unless it occurs in "10th-Anniversary medal", for example. It that case the hyphen would be required, in Wikipedia style. See WP:HYPHEN at WP:MOS. Noetica^Tea? 03:16, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

• I've corrected the hyphen. Since what we have now is a correct literal translation of the Polish name, I'd be inclined to leave it as it is, unless someone can find significant sources that call it something else.--Kotniski (talk) 19:30, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Comment "10 Years of People's Poland medal" perhaps? //Halibutt 23:35, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

• I see it comes up a bit on sites like e-bay, but to me it doesn't read as well as the present title (it sounds like 10 years of the medal).--Kotniski (talk) 09:06, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose: "Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland" is an accurate English rendering of "Medal 10-lecia Polski Ludowej".

"People's Poland" ("Polska Ludowa") is a common Polish abbreviated version of the formal "People's Republic of Poland" or "Polish People's Republic" ("Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa"), and it is that abbreviated name of the polity that appears in the medal's name.

I cannot think of another English rendering of the medal's name that would be equally accurate and more euphonious.Nihil novi (talk) 01:41, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

In fact I think it's more than just an abbreviation in this case - the country was only officially called PRL from something like 1952, so to make the 10th anniversary thing work, they would have had to go for something more "descriptive" like Polska Ludowa that they could date from 1944.--Kotniski (talk) 06:59, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

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