Talk:Russian Mind

A publication of the same name continues to publish today
http://www.rm-daily.com Kaihsu (talk) 07:31, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * That domain seems to have been taken over by spammers, but the magazine continues publishing at russianmind.com. I've mentioned it in the article, probably should update the infobox too if I can work out how. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.234.120.120 (talk) 09:46, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Requested move 10 March 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Editors in support of the proposal argued that the proposed title is the WP:COMMONNAME based on ngrams; this argument was rejected by editors who opposed the move, who argued that the place was too obscure to determine the COMMONNAME, and that in the absence of a good reason to move the article it should not be moved per WP:TITLECHANGES. In such circumstances, where the arguments for each side are equally strong, we consider the number of editors supporting each position to determine which one has consensus, giving us the result of not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) BilledMammal (talk) 16:15, 19 March 2023 (UTC) Expanded rationale following request on talk page 02:32, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Russkaya mysl → Russkaia mysl – WP:COMMONNAME, as evidenced by Google Books Ngram search.

The proposed spelling (with any capitalization) has been the clear majority for nearly all of the last century, and comprising over 3/4 of total usage for the last 25 years.

Capitalization in sentence case (with either spelling) has been the majority usage for the last 45 years.

Sentence case is also supported by the guidelines which recommend using the native, Russian convention. (For the Russian usage, compare Русская мысль (журнал))


 * Naming conventions (books) (there’s no convention for periodicals and the one on comics is mute on capitulation): The titles of books (usually meaning the title of the literary work contained in the book) are capitalized by the same convention that governs other literary and artistic works such as plays, films, paintings etc.
 * Manual of Style/Titles of Works: Capitalization in foreign-language titles varies, even over time within the same language; generally, retain the style of the original for modern works, and follow the usage in current English-language reliable sources for historical works.
 * (Note e also recommends Google Ngram: In MoS's own wording, "recent", "current", "modern", and "contemporary" in reference to sources and usage should usually be interpreted as referring to reliable material published within the last forty years or so. In the consideration of name changes of persons and organizations, focus on sources from the last few years. For broader English-language usage matters, about forty years is typical. While style guides with fewer than five years in print have not been in publication long enough to have had as much real-world impact as those from around 2000–2015 (on which MoS is primarily based), the corpora used for Google ngrams are updated through 2019, and we frequently rely on what they indicate from the late 20th century and onward.)
 * Naming conventions (capitalization) implies that foreign capitalization rules are generally applied.

(This RM was previously part of a batch RM that closed with no consensus, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia.) —Michael Z. 16:03, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose at least absolute numbers have been presented, and it was shown that total number of mentions is statistically significant. After that, I would like to see the analysis of the comparative quality of sources.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:19, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose any moves of obscure topics from one correct transliteration to another per WP:TITLECHANGES. For 10 years of this article's existence, no one has even found it appropriate to create a redirect at for the supposed "common name". And all the arguments from the previous RM still stand (besides, the vast majority of posters there opposed any change in transliteration, supporting only the lowercasing option). No such user (talk) 09:37, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Moving to the demonstrable COMMONNAME is a good reason; in fact it is the cornerstone of WP:TITLE. Writing “supposed” doesn’t actually make either spelling controversial, seeing as you haven’t given a rationale to prefer one or the other, only a desire to prevent the improvement. As articles like this are renamed according to the guidelines all the time, why is obscurity a criterion and how is it determined?
 * Regarding the the previous RM, the obscure title Zhivopisnoe obozrenie has already been moved, so the earlier no-consensus decision is not an obstacle and this move should be considered on its own merits. —Michael Z. 06:41, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The obscure title Zhivopisnoye Obozrenye has been moved (and I supported it) not because of the COMMONNAME argument, but because its transliteration was demonstrably wrong. And your appeals to "common name" of obscure Russian items continue to fall on deaf ears of the community. WP:DEADHORSE, WP:DROPIT, etc. No such user (talk) 10:28, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * That is not true. I have successfully RM’d many articles. You are just trying to make this about me instead of the merits of the proposal, because you know the guidelines support it. —Michael Z. 09:07, 15 March 2023 (UTC)