Hoi,
Transliteration is exactly that. My name is Dutch, it is used written the
same in English, French and German. They are languages I understand (up to
a point) I know that my name is pronounced substantially in all of them.
A name that is Ukrainian or Serbian could be should be transliterated
differently.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 27 April 2015 at 19:08, Leon Liesener <leon.liese...@wikipedia.de> wrote:
> The problem with ISO is that it's a standard for language-independent
> transliteration to Latin script. Since labels on Wikidata are
> language-dependent, making use of ISO does not make sense really. If
> you use ISO for Russian names in Cyrillic script, the label you get is
> not in English. It's still in Russian but transliterated to Latin
> script. ISO thus would only fit as an alias for the Russian interface
> language, if at all.
>
> 2015-04-26 22:39 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>:
> > Hoi,
> > <grin> ISO is a reliable source; it is THE standard </grin> Wikipedia is
> > definitely not a standard by its own admission.
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
> >
> > On 26 April 2015 at 22:37, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2015-04-26 22:33, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hoi
> >>> My point is that it is not a given that we should follow any WIkipedia
> >>> for anything. Also the point of romanisation of Russian is not for the
> >>> benefit of Russian speakers, it is for the speakers of English.
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> GerardM
> >>>
> >>
> >> On one hand, yes.
> >>
> >> On the other hand, no reliable source uses ISO. When NYT writes about a
> >> Russian person, they do not use ISO, they use what the English Wikipedia
> >> uses or smth similar. In my passport, they do not use ISO
> (fortunately), why
> >> should then ISO be used on Wikidata in an entry about me?
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Yaroslav
> >>
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