Talk:Chişinău

RFV discussion: November 2011

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Chişinău

Is this spelling correct in Romanian? Chișinău must be the correct one. --Anatoli 22:17, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Moreover, is it correct in Estonian? That language doesn't have an Ş last time I checked. -- Liliana • 22:19, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

I actually found the answer to my first question: Comma-below (ș and ț) versus cedilla (ş and ţ). In the Romanian wiki Chişinău is simply a redirect to Chișinău, not an alternative spelling. --Anatoli 22:21, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

(EDITED) IMHO, because of the issue with missing characters in previous versions of Windows, we should make Romanian entries with cedilla below (ş and ţ) redirects to entries with comma (ș and ț), the latter is standard), thus enabling users not able to type the more standard characters or finding non-standard spelling. As for the Estonian, they are just following the original Romanian spelling. The currect Estonian wiki is Chișinău (as in standard Romanian). So it should move Chișinău, in my opinion.--Anatoli 22:29, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

From what I see that is already common practice among Romanian editors, so there should not be any issues with it. -- Liliana • 22:31, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

BTW, the Romanian wiki has declension, anyone skilled in templates, please create declension template, if you can. I also created Кишинэу - the Cyrillic version (Moldovan). --Anatoli 22:38, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Back in February and March, we voted to use comma-below for Romanian, with cedilla spellings being redirects where possible; see [[Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2011-02/Romanian orthographic norms]]. So far as I know, the result of that vote is still in effect. —Ruakh_TALK 03:52, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Great, thanks for the link! I'll convert the cedilla entries to redirects. --Anatoli 04:22, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

This seems to have been handled adequately, so I'll strike it. — [Ric Laurent] — 12:18, 16 November 2011 (UTC)