Talk:Tanzanian shilling

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[edit] New East African shilling

There is no mention here of the proposed adoption of the East African Shilling, anybody know anything about that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.186.95.89 (talk • contribs) 17:07, 19 April 2007

See East African shilling#Second East African Shilling and East African Community. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 19:39, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

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 local name for this currency is shilingi, with shilling only appearing on the first series of banknoes from 1966. Hence, we ought to move this page to Tanzanian shilingi.

  • Oppose mix'n'match of Swahili and English. "Tanzanian shilling" is in common use.[1][2] [3] And a googlefight of "Tanzanian shilling" vs "Tanzanian shilingi" gives it to the incumbent WP usage by a margin of 1.23 million to 52.[4] --DeLarge 10:19, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment: for the same reasons, I'd recommend reverting the stylistic changes in the most recent edit to the page which switched the primary/parenthetical usage from English (Swahili) to Swahili (English) for the same reason.[5] --DeLarge 10:22, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments

Could AjaxSmack perhaps explain what's "arbitrary" about Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style?
Dove1950 10:34, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes s/he could. Those style guidelines suspend WP:UE and WP:COMMONNAME for the names of currencies but not for the adjectives modifying them. On top that, some currencies are then are arbitrarily exempted from those rules (e.g., Finnish mark, Swiss franc, New Taiwan dollar, and numerous pounds, rubles, and rupees). I'm not sure how the Tanzanian shilling slipped through the cracks but would be happy if it was allowed to remain among the flouters. —  AjaxSmack  03:28, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Finnish markka is no longer a flouter. Swiss franc is an awkward one due to four possibilities. Which pounds and rupees are you refering to? All that I'm aware of use these names on the currency, either exclusively or in conjunction with other names, raising similar problems to Swiss franc. The only obvious flouter is the New Taiwan dollar, which is partially dealt with in Chinese yuan. However, just because one or two exceptions exist is no reason to preserve other exceptions. It's worth remembering that currency names appear on the currency in the local form (exclusively in the case of the shilingi) and this is why those names should have the prominence we assign them through Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style.
Dove1950 09:38, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
I'll probably regret pointing these out but some of the other currency articles using non-native names in countries where the first official language is (or was) not English and/or where the English name does not appear on the coins and notes (not including rubles) are Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, Brunei dollar, Chinese customs gold unit, Cypriot pound, Djiboutian franc, Egyptian pound, Anglo-Saxon pound, Hawaiian dollar, Irish pound, Libyan pound, Macanese pataca, Malagasy franc, Maltese pound, Mongolian dollar, Mongolian tugrug, Moroccan franc, Mauritanian ouguiya, Philippine peso, Somali shilling, Somaliland shilling, Sudanese pound, Syrian pound, Old Taiwan dollar, and most rupees (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, &c.), various piastres among others.
Some of the supposed "native" names are a little silly. As pointed out on the style talk page previously, the New Taiwan dollar is not called a "yuan" in Chinese and the word appears nowhere on the coins or notes (it's called 新台幣 measured in 圓) yet in nearly every English situation in the country, official and unofficial, the term New Taiwan dollar is used. While this logic may have kept the article at its English name it has not saved others such as the Israeli pound, Lebanese pound, Chinese cash (Chinese wen?? Come on.) despite clear prevalence of English usage in some cases, even at the official level.
The arbitrariness (is that a word?) extends quite wide: Polish rubel but Russian ruble, Lebanese lira but Egyptian pound, Ottoman Turkish piastre but Turkish kuruş. And "tugrug" is neither a transliteration of Mongolian (tögrög) nor the English (tugrik).
I'll copy this discussion to the style talk page to solicit corrections if I'm wrong. —  AjaxSmack  04:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
I have responded on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numismatics/Style
Dove1950 10:47, 25 May 2007 (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.

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 08:34, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

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