Talk:Riga District

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. 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 proposal was - unopposed move to bring in line with WP:UE. Keith D (talk) 21:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Request to move this page to Riga District, which is the proper English name for this article. Philaweb T 21:41, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

• support. "Riga" seems very common in English references, so WP:UE should be followed. Mcmullen writes (talk) 22:55, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
• support. The name "Riga" without the diacritic is the long established and overwhelmingly predominant form in English usage. To the best of my knowledge, parallel forms and alternative spellings have never been widespread in English. (This is not the case, however, for other Latvian cities and towns, e.g. Libau/Liepāja, Walk/Valka, Mitau/Jelgava, etc., where German versions of place names were often used in English prior to the 1920s). — Zalktis (talk) 09:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• support Yahel Guhan 06:41, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. 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.