Talk:Tersko-Orlovsky Mayak

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was not moved. --BDD (talk) 16:34, 9 October 2012 (UTC) (non-admin closure)

Tersko-Orlovsky Mayak → Tersko-Orlovsky Lighthouse – The article in the Russian Wikipedia is at ru:Терско-Орловский Маяк. It seems to be better to use the English word for the item rather than the transliterated Russian one. The English form is used in the literature, see, for example, page 304 of Global Climatology and Ecodynamics: Anthropogenic Changes to Planet Earth. --Bejnar (talk) 23:15, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The article is not about a lighthouse but rather about the inhabited locality named after that lighthouse. The word "Mayak" here is a part of the proper name, and proper names are not normally translated into English (it's the same as with Nizhny Novgorod, where "Nizhny" means "Lower" in English). The ref above refers to a meteorological station, which is in the actual lighthouse, not in the inhabited locality. If one were to create an article about the lighthouse itself, then of course that article would use "lighthouse", not "mayak". Note also that the "Mayak" form is the one approved by the US Board on Geographic Names, as a search here would easily confirm.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 3, 2012; 12:05 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Ezhiki. --Insider (talk) 12:22, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose as above. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:50, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.