Talk:Ahmet Hacıosman

Latest comment: 11 years ago by Tiggerjay in topic Requested move back to Ahmet Hacıosman

POV renaming by User:Pyraechmes, unfortunately unblocked by an administrator edit

I hardly understood why the page "Ahmet Hacıosman" I created was suddenly renamed "Achmet Chatziosman", which is the obviously wrong transcription of his name through Greek. Ahmet Hacıosman is an ethnic Turk, his name is not normally written in the Greek alphabet in his own language. Then I looked through the other "contributions" of User:Pyraechmes on wikipedia. User:Pyraechmes has an obvious political agenda, Greek nationalism POV-pushing in every Greek-related article. I won't begin an edit war, I merely suggest that User:Pyraechmes should be permanently blocked from editing, as he already was some time ago. --Minorities observer (talk) 20:26, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Requested move back to Ahmet Hacıosman edit

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The result of the move request was: moved/reverted back to original title. Tiggerjay (talk) 12:04, 24 April 2013 (UTC)Reply


  • he is an ethnic Turkish MP, his name must be spelled according to his native language, written in the adapted Roman alphabet, not according to a transcription of the Greek one. The article was initially created as Ahmet Hacıosman. Minorities observer (talk) 11:35, 22 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • Support - speedy close and restore per WP:BRD. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:02, 22 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • I disagree. He is a Greek politician. Greek names have a tradiotional way to be written in latin alphabet.
"Χ" becomes "CH"
"ΤΖ" becomes "TZ"
etc.
In that way of writing the accent if you read it is "(h)Atsiosman" and not "Hatziosman" as his real name is. User:Pyraechmes Chrusts 17:55, 23 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • People, you are both discussing this based on the wrong premises. The sole real criterion to be used here is: which of the two spellings is more common in English? For instance, how does his own party or the Greek parliament spell his name in their English web publications? How does the English-language press spell him? Based on just a brief, cursory check, I would tend to the conclusion (surprising to myself) that the Greek-based "Chatziosman" may actually win out, but I'm open to be convinced otherwise. Fut.Perf. 19:08, 23 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • Actually, scrap that. With a bit more of source checking, I find "Hacıosman" wins out. Fut.Perf. 19:20, 23 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
    • Moreover, the pronunciation of the Turkish c is j as in jail, it is not at all a ç as in China. He is an ethnic Turkish politician whose native language is not Greek, and the Greek alphabet can't render the Turkish c letter. --Minorities observer (talk) 21:49, 23 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • WP:RM says:

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I am not clear why this RM is happening? Maybe we should delete WP:BRD from WP:RM if we don't intend to follow it? In ictu oculi (talk) 02:17, 24 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

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