Talk:Kazan State University

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[edit] Regarding spelling of Myakzyum Salakhov vs. Mäğzüm Säläxev

I believe the first version should be used for the article title. The second should be used in the article on Myakzyum Salakhov, together with other versions of spelling. Here are my reasons:

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English), Wikipedia:Naming_conventions
This is an English wiki. It's impossible to type Mäğzüm Säläxev on a standard keyboard
Google knows nothing of Mäğzüm Säläxev except links to this article. On the other hand, Myakzyum Salakhov is quite common. You want people to actually find the article, right?
I understand that Mäğzüm Säläxev is a proper Turkish spellling of the name, but as far as I know, Tatarstan officially uses Cyrillic spelling. Why should the Turkish spelling be used as primary when the official is Cyrillic?
Take a look at Talk:Kiev for a similar dispute and what was decided.

Gene s 04:20, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

And one more thing - the guy himself uses name Myakzyum Salakhov as his email Myakzyum.Salakhov -at- ksu.ru. Gene s 08:12, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Romanization of Tatar

Romanization of Tatar/Tatar Latin Alphabet is uses Turkish chapters. ä uses only in Tatar , not Turkish.

That's fine. But keep in mind that this is an English wikipedia. It should use commonly used English names or an official English names. The common English spelling of Salakhov is Myakzyum Salakhov (search Google), the official English names according to his place of work is Myakzyum Salakhov. Thus the article title should be Myakzyum Salakhov. Gene s 06:19, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

ya uses for Russian letter я, Tatar ә can be spelled only like ä. Ğ is gh, ş is sn, other letters are iin standart key board.

As for Myakzyum Salakhov - we use redirects :^)--Untifler 15:09, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Redirects are fine. But the artcle title should be in English. All alternative spllings should go to the article itself. Gene s 06:19, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)