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Wikipedia style and naming

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Naming of German municipal subdivisions

While browsing through articles on subdivisions of Cologne with the intention of adding translations from German Wikipedia, I noticed that the terms used to translate different levels of subdivision are inconsistent across these pages. The overview article Districts of Cologne translates Stadtbezirk as "(city) district", and Stadtteil very literally as "city part". Articles about individual Stadtbezirke on the other hand, like Lindenthal and Rodenkirchen instead render Stadtbezirk as "borough" and Stadtteil as either "(city) quarter" "city part".

By way of comparison, articles on Berlin, which calls its top-level subdivisions Bezirk and its second-level subdivisions Ortsteil (which meanings do not differ substantially from Stadtbezirk and Stadtteil), uses "borough" for the former and "locality" for the latter.

This is confusing in several different ways:

Readers may take a minute to work out that what some articles call a "borough" is the same thing other articles call a "district".
The literal translation "city part" for Stadtteil sounds vague and doesn't really convey any scale or significance to the reader. It also sounds a bit "awkward" to my mind. The term "locality" used for Ortsteil is less awkward, but no less vague.
The use of "quarter" for Stadtteil is wholly nonsensical as the Stadtteile themselves can be further subdivided informally into German: (Stadt)viertel / Kölsch: Veedel, which literally translates as..."(city) quarter". Berlin articles use "neighbourhood" for such further, informal subdivisions of their Ortsteile.

I would like to propose the following consistent approach for the subdivisions of German cities:

(Stadt)bezirk or other top-level division to be rendered as borough
Stadt-/Ortsteil or other second-level division to be rendered as district
Viertel or other (usually informal) third-level division to be rendered as neighbourhood except in proper nouns^note (e.g. Severinsviertel → "Severin Quarter", Belgisches Viertel → "Belgian Quarter")

Subjectively, as a binative of English and German, this is what seems most intuitively comprehensible/evocative, but there are also objective reasons speaking for it:

The City of Cologne's official web page on its subdivisions alongside this official map of Veedel uses precisely this borough-district-neighbourhood schema while retaining "quarter" for proper nouns (example)
Berlin likewise officially uses "boroughs" for Bezirke and "districts and neighbourhoods" for Ortsteile and their subdivisions
The borough-district schema has also been used for translating Stockholm's top-level stadsdelsområden and second-level stadsdelar, the latter even being cognate with Stadtteile.

However, I didn't want to charge ahead and make these changes without first inviting comment to see if there might be any good reasons this isn't already what's used across the board. So...what do other editors think? --Newbiepedian (talk · C · X! · L) 12:13, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Korea-related articles

See above post. Tl;dr Korea-related articles currently don't have guidance on how to handle Hangul names in reference templates. This has led to a wide variety of practices, with arguable positives/negatives to each of them. I'm proposing we establish a guideline in MOS:KO, in which Hangul names are to be romanized (with nuances). 211.43.120.242 (talk) 12:08, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics

Our transcription system for English (H:IPAE) uses single slashes (/…/) to delimit its diaphonemic transcriptions, even though single slashes are widely used in Linguistics to indicate that transcriptions are phonemic. Should we keep delimiting our diaphonemic transcriptions with single slashes, or should we choose a different delimiter to indicate that our transcriptions are not phonemic, but diaphonemic (e.g. double slashes //…//)? --mach 🙈🙉🙊 07:51, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Gaza genocide

Megabytes of text have been written on this Talk in the last 30 days, with 87 distinct editors making a total of 917 edits. Arguments were traded, insults flew. Most of it was a discussion about the page title. I'm glad that Joe Roe has now skilfully closed the heated debate with an excellent summary.

As the new title needs to "settle in", I'd like to propose a temporary moratorium on further rename discussions. Please kindly indicate your preferences from among:

A-6 – A six-month moratorium on page move requests
A-12 – A 12-month moratorium on page move requests
A-24 – A 24-month moratorium on page move requests
B – No page move moratorium

Thank you. — kashmīrī ^TALK 12:51, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Titles of European monarchs

In the absence of a need to disambiguate, how should we title the articles of European imperial and royal monarchs?

Louis XVI^[a]
King Louis XVI^[b]
Louis XVI of France^[c]
King Louis XVI of France^[d]
Louis XVI, King of France^[e]
Louis XVI (king of France)^[f]
Louis XVI (France)^[g]
Louis XVI, king of France^[h]
Use the common name; do not apply a consistent style

If you support multiple options, please rank your preferences to assist the closer in identifying consensus. 22:06, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia policies and guidelines

Wikipedia talk:Bot policy

Should WP:MASSCREATE be severed from WP:Bot policy? 23:15, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Proposal to revise CSD R3

Should speedy deletion criterion R3 be revised to better address redirects in a language other than English? — Scott • talk 16:46, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Edit filter manager

Should the Wikipedia:Edit filter manager page be promoted to a procedural policy? EggRoll97 ^(talk) 19:03, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Titles of European monarchs

In the absence of a need to disambiguate, how should we title the articles of European imperial and royal monarchs?

Louis XVI^[i]
King Louis XVI^[j]
Louis XVI of France^[k]
King Louis XVI of France^[l]
Louis XVI, King of France^[m]
Louis XVI (king of France)^[n]
Louis XVI (France)^[o]
Louis XVI, king of France^[p]
Use the common name; do not apply a consistent style

If you support multiple options, please rank your preferences to assist the closer in identifying consensus. 22:06, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

WikiProjects and collaborations

Wikipedia technical issues and templates

Wikipedia proposals

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard

National Post is a Canadian newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of Postmedia Network. Which of the following best describes the reliability of National Post for its news reporting?

Option 1: Generally reliable
Option 2: Additional considerations apply
Option 3: Generally unreliable

— Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 23:59, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Edit filter manager

Should the Wikipedia:Edit filter manager page be promoted to a procedural policy? EggRoll97 ^(talk) 19:03, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

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