Talk:Gallipoli
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Angerxiety in topic Name
Name
changeThe official Turkish Name is Gelibolu for the citiy and peninsula.
But english mother tongue speakers unfortunately take the unoffical old greek name Gallipoli Nalanidil (talk) 13:20, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
- We take what is much more known. Instead of "David Dwight Eisenhower" (Eisenhower's original name), he's called "Dwight D. Eisenhower". Instead of "Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.", we say "Joe Biden". We know "Joe Biden" better than we know his original name. See Wikipedia:Article titles. Angerxiety 13:25, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
- No, you can't compare that. Because, these are official Turkish names that are simply ignored and foreign unofficial Greek names are used by english speakers. All of this has a political character. A number of discussions have therefore already been held in the English wikipedia. Nalanidil (talk) 13:51, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
- Again I will re-say, "We take what is much more known". We use the name that is much more common in published articles/news/etc. Unless the sources do use the official Turkish name, or English Wikipedia decides to rename it to Gelibolu, we will use what is more common. Angerxiety 14:21, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
- No, you can't compare that. Because, these are official Turkish names that are simply ignored and foreign unofficial Greek names are used by english speakers. All of this has a political character. A number of discussions have therefore already been held in the English wikipedia. Nalanidil (talk) 13:51, 8 December 2022 (UTC)