Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Ethiopia-related articles/Archive 1
Good start edit
Good start everyone. Good job on pointing that out, Codex, and thanks for starting the page up, Llywrch. I'm afraid that my writing was a bit hard to follow for the transliteration system. I tried to hard to explain every single detail, so if someone could go through and chop it up into something more intelligible without changing the meaning, it would be much appreciated. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 00:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Transliteration edit
I fear that my MOS proposal for the use of transliterations may be too long for intros, but I can't think of a better idea. Any comments? — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 03:58, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Regarding page names, for works of literature, I think the Ge'ez title should always be used. I made a page at "Book of Aksum," but I'm going to move it to either "Mits'hafa Aksum" (using Ge'ez translit or "Mitshafa Aksum), the modern pronounciation "Mits'hafe Aksum," or (unlikely), perhaps Mits'hāfa Aksum or some other strict transliteration (e.g. w/ ṣ for "ts'" or ḥ for "h"). The reason for this is that most works are known primarily by their Ge'ez names (e.g. Kebra Nagast, which I think we should move to Kibre Negest or Kibra Nagast), and the number of "Mits'haf books is enough that we should adopt a standard for all, and using the Ge'ez term is the best option given possible confusion with other works (possible for M. Birhan and M. Milad, light and birth, respectively). Any comments on the name of Book of Aksum? — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 06:06, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
MoS naming style edit
There is currently an ongoing discussion about the future of this and others MoS naming style. Please consider the issues raised in the discussion and vote if you wish GnevinAWB (talk) 20:55, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Offensive exonyms edit
The article says:
- most of them are either obviously derogatory (e.g., the Yem people are called by their neighbors Janjero, "monkey")
Is this meant to say that Janjero means "monkey"? If so, the following sentence (and referenced article) seems to contradict the rule of using endonyms when the exonym is offensive:
- Out of sensitivity to these ethnic groups, preference should be given to the endonym as the article name, unless it is needlessly confusing (e.g., not "Kingdom of Yem" but Kingdom of Janjero, which is the established name of this monarchy).