Talk:Samir Handanović

Requested move 1

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The result of the proposal was moved. No opposition after almost two weeks. Renaming on Slovenian Wikipedia will have to be left to their admins. --BDD (talk) 16:10, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Samir Handanović → Samir Handanovič Jasmin Handanović → Jasmin Handanovič – The native Slovenian name of the two footballers is Handanovič, not Handanović. Handanovič is Slovenianized version of Bosniak Handanović. However, since both footballers are Slovenian citizens, the native name Handanovič should be used. Also, the Slovenian Football Association calls them Handanovič. link User:Sofeshue 20:28, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Question - sl:Samir Handanović hr:Samir Handanovič (same hr:Jasmin Handanovič). Самир Ханданович in Cyrillic Bosnian would be Č, but you're saying sl.wp is wrong. Wouldn't it make sense to correct sl.wp before en.wp? In ictu oculi (talk) 08:35, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment - I do think the Slovenian wiki is wrong. The letter ć is not even part of the Slovenian alphabet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sofeshue (talk • contribs) 06:36, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
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Overlooked move request
I noticed that this page has been moved from Handanović to Handanovič. However, my other request (see above discussion) to move his borther Jasmin Handanovič (correct) was overlooked, and the page title is still Jasmin Handanović (incorrect). --User:Sofeshue 07:08, 21 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sofeshue (talk • contribs)

Requested move (Sep 2013)

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The result of the discussion was move all per consensus. bd2412 T 12:22, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

– I am requesting a page move for a bunch of Slovenian footballers because their family names have been Slovenianized for whatever reason (I suspect nationalism from certain users), even though those footballers use the names in the fashion as those proposed in this move. I do not know which articles have been moved in the past, but I see that in the case of the Handanović brothers the move was successful, though it seems that at the time of the request only the opinion of Sofeshue was taken into account.
 * Samir Handanovič → Samir Handanović
 * Jasmin Handanovič → Jasmin Handanović
 * Zlatko Dedič → Zlatko Dedić
 * Aleksander Radosavljevič → Aleksander Radosavljević
 * Branko Ilič → Branko Ilić
 * Zlatan Ljubijankič → Zlatan Ljubijankić
 * Dalibor Stevanovič → Dalibor Stevanović

Even though the letter Ć is not part of the Slovenian alphabet it is still used. The same thing applies for other "foreign" letters such as Ä, Ö, Ü etc. One good example is Danilo Türk who was the President of Slovenia between 2007 and 2012 and his name was used as such in official documents and in the media.

All players mentioned in the move are or were part of the Slovenia national football team and use/d the letter ć on their national team jerseys:
 * Samir Handanovič (example:, and here we see Handanović recieveing a promotional Slovenian national basketball team jersey as part of the promotion of 2013 Eurobasket which was hosted by Slovenia ).
 * Jasmin Handanovič uses the letter ć on his club yersey and the same letter is used on his player profile page of NK Maribor, a Slovenian club he currently plays for . He is also part of the Slovenian national team and, like his cousin, uses ć on that jersey as well.
 * The case of Zlatko Dedič is a bit tricky. He was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the past used both letter on his Slovenia national team jersey (č and ć ).
 * Here is Aleksander Radosavljevič in a Slovenian national team jersey also using the letter ć on the back side . His current club, from Slovenia, also uses ć for the player.
 * Even though Branko Ilič is a current player of Slovenia national football team, I am unable to find a good picture of him in the NT jersey that is showing how his family name is spelled (though I know he uses ć).
 * Zlatan Ljubijankič uses the letter ć on his Slovenia national team yersey.
 * Dalibor Stevanovič is also one of those guys that uses the letter ć on his Slovenia national team jersey . Relisted. Favonian (talk) 18:06, 7 October 2013 (UTC). Ratipok (talk) 17:18, 30 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment - most users are going to need more background to explain why it is a bad thing that Slovenian footballers be slovenianized. Are you saying that these footballers are ethnic Croatian and BLP subjects prefer to keep Croatian spelling? In ictu oculi (talk) 23:38, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Then cautious Support - okay, thank you User:Ratipok, based on the example you gave of Danilo Türk, and the case-by-case evidence and explanation, it seems most in accord with WP:BLP and normal complications of BLP names in this region to assume as default that each of these moves is correct in using the ethnic minority Serbian/Bosnian diacritic rather than the Slovenian diacritic. However someone please ping me here if there is a case of one of these bios deliberately using Slovenian diacritic where the option not to do so exists. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:07, 8 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment These names should be as they would appear in an English-language source, which is presumably without these unusual diacritics. 103.250.234.97 (talk) 03:01, 1 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Actually the mentioned players are ethnic Bosniaks and Serbs, members of the Bosniak and Serbian minority in Slovenia. They were either born abroad and moved to Slovenia or were born in Slovenia to immigrant parents. Also, I am not saying that the spelling is a bad thing, but I am saying that the spelling is wrong. For most of the mentioned players the spelling was correct and was then changed based on the opinion of one person, without consensus. And that kind of spelling couldn't be wrong since its used in everyday life across the country. I can provide countless of sources from the media regarding the mentioned players, with the media using the letter ć. I think I showed that foreign letters can be used on the basis of the former President of Slovenia, who's last name was Türk. PS: wont even bother of answering the IP user, since he obviously missed tons of wiki debates about diacritics. Ratipok (talk) 17:33, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Indeed, numerous RMs have upheld the principle of native-language diacritics, especially BLPs. This excludes, of course, cases an English name is more appropriate, such as if Samir here were most notable from a English-language rapping career as "Sammy Handy." But as such, "Samir Handanovic" isn't an English name; it's essentially just an error. --BDD (talk) 23:30, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * User:BDD, looks like you're talking to another sock I'm afraid, will add it the latest SPI. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:07, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. – Michael (talk) 19:16, 2 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment: What do sources say? bobrayner (talk) 18:22, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * It varies upon different sources. For the mentioned players some use ć and the others č (I am referring to the Slovenian media). For example: here is a news of Samir Handanović becoming a father - RTV Slovenia uses the letter ć and Siol uses č . Here we have Siol news about Handanović spelled with ć . At the end of the day its up to the journalists who writes the article, though I am sure that ć prevails and is used more often (again I am talking for the Slovenian media and for the mentioned players - that is, persons from Slovenia but not ethnic Slovenes). In any case, this simply means that ć is applicable in Slovenia and not wrong, as it was insinuated during the first requested move, which was successful, but only based on one opinion. However, all the mentioned players currently use the letter ć on the back of their national team jerseys and clubs (see sources above) and how those are spelled depends on the will and wishes of the players. Two of the mentioned players are currently members of Slovenian football clubs and both of those clubs also use the letter ć (see sources for Jasmin Handanović and Radosavljević above).Ratipok (talk) 00:07, 8 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Support No reason mentioned why spelling used on Slovenia national football team jerseys wouldn't be better. FootballCleaner (talk) 19:17, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, when I started this request I couldn't provide a source that Branko Ilić also uses ć on the back of his Slovenia national team jersey. Here it is . Ratipok (talk) 01:16, 11 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Support A wrong diacritic, or one that is missing, is a misspelling. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:58, 19 October 2013 (UTC)


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Good article nominee
I think this article is a good candidate to receive the 'Good Article' award. Anybody agrees?

Sepguilherme (talk) 17:06, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Handanovič, not Handanović
. RealSonny (talk) 17:42, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Samir Handanović
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Samir Handanović's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "soccerway": From Alexis Sánchez:  From Miralem Pjanić:  From Zlatan Ibrahimović:  From Boštjan Cesar:  From Martín Satriano:  From Slovenian PrvaLiga: </li> <li>From Tim Matavž: </li> <li>From Nicolò Zaniolo: </li> <li>From Eintracht Frankfurt: </li> <li>From Josip Iličić: </li> <li>From Lautaro Martínez: </li> <li>From Nejc Pečnik: </li> <li>From Dušan Vlahović: </li> <li>From Jan Oblak: </li> <li>From Joaquín Correa: </li> <li>From Elvedin Džinić: </li> <li>From Nicolò Barella: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 14:29, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Last name
Is clearly spelled "Handanović" in all major Slovenian media (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), so stop changing to "Handanovič", the only reason why Football Association of Slovenia uses this on its website is the fact that "ć" is not a letter in Slovene alhpabet and is therefore irrelevant, even on his national team shirt it was spelled "Handanović". Snowflake91 (talk) 09:06, 12 July 2022 (UTC)