Talk:Bắc Ninh

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 21:15, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

– (1) per continuing consensus across series of Vietnam geo RMs since 2011, (2) majority of last years RfC, (3) use of Vietnamese fonts in academic sources - e.g. hardback edition of Oxford Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, David G. Marr's latest book, etc. (4) consistent en.wp practice with other Latin-alphabet geo names. These are the same-name provincial capital cities of the same-name provinces among RM currently at Talk:Bac Ninh Province, i.e. Ninh Binh Province, Lai Chau Province. (Other same-name-as-province provincial capitals in current RM as Thanh Hóa capital of Thanh Hoa Province are already at Vietnamese names). In ictu oculi (talk) 02:34, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Bac Ninh → Bắc Ninh
 * Lai Chau → Lai Châu
 * Ninh Binh → Ninh Bình
 * Tay Ninh → Tây Ninh
 * Ha Tinh → Hà Tĩnh


 * support These aren't widely known in english-language media, and we should prefer proper spelling in these cases (also to match ongoing move on the provinces). --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 02:46, 12 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Again late to mention but there is also a RM at Talk:Bun rieu. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:21, 12 July 2013 (UTC)


 * support; for reasons above. Colonies Chris (talk) 16:53, 13 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Support. Wikipedia typically does not strip diacritics from placenames (e.g., Baħar Iċ-Ċagħaq, Însurăței) unless the name in question is an exonym (e.g., Munich for München).  —  AjaxSmack   02:39, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
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