Talk:Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia

Sophia?
Why was this moved from Sofia to Sophia without a discussion? Sophia with ph is from the Greek, and is a very old-fashioned way of transliterating the name (see Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, which academics used to spell Sophia). Sofia with f is the more common transliteration from Cyrillic and I believe the preferred transliteration on Wikipedia. It would be only in very rare cases that transliteration like this would be accepted (ie Joseph Stalin, which is technically Iosif, but basically the entirety of the English word knows him as "Joseph"). The best sources for this article are going to be Russian as opposed to Latin, so it's incorrect that most spell it Sophia. Thank you. —Мандичка YO 😜 10:24, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I only moved it after it was listed at Requested moves/Technical requests under "Uncontroversial technical requests"; I'm effectively just the messenger. If a "requested move" discussion needs to be started, then by all means. --  Alex TW 13:55, 19 July 2017 (UTC)


 * I assumed it would be uncontroversial, since the body of the article uniformly uses "Sophia," as do most sources. I have no preference one way or the other, beyond consistency between the body and the page name. Dyrnych (talk) 20:52, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
 * In present-day English, Sophia is a person's name, whilst Sofia is the name of a city in Bulgaria. Books in English therefore call her Sophia.--  Toddy1 (talk) 12:41, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Templates at top
I don't understand your revert. The Vital article template is clearly not a wikiproject. It should sit on its own, above the wikiproject shell. See also WP:TPL. Modulus12 (talk) 19:57, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
 * You are right. Thanks for the link.--  Toddy1 (talk) 06:10, 21 October 2018 (UTC)


 * I think it is worse the way you want it. But as there is a policy stating the desired order for these things, I have self-reverted.--  Toddy1 (talk) 06:26, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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