User talk:Admiral Norton/Naming conventions (Serbian)

Explanation
Serbian words, such as personal names, can be written both in Cyrillic and Latin in an unambiguous and official system of transliteration. There are some other systems, such as that removing diacritics, leaving readers to wonder does "Zivic" mean "Zivić" ("Зивић"), "Živić" ("Живић"), "Živic" ("Живиц") or something else. The system of writing in this proposal clearly associates "Zivic" to "Зивиц" and only "Зивиц". It's also the official system in use in Serbia. Readers who have known Новак Ђоковић as Novak Djokovic will hardly have any trouble understanding Novak Đoković, while Novak Djokovic is read in Serbian as NO-vak D'YOH-koh-veets and not JOH-koh-veech and understood in Cyrillic as Новак Дјоковиц. This policy (if accepted) will help clean up the current situation with some Serbian personal names being persistently written using other transliterations or transcriptions, leaving a lay reader unfamiliar with Serbian Cyrillic wondering what is the actual Serbian name.

As for proof, I think links in List of Serbs should be enough. Almost all articles and links follow the official Serbian transliteration and those links that do not usually either point to articles that do or to biographies of Serbs who have moved to another country and changed their name. Admiral Norton (talk) 15:56, 11 July 2008 (UTC)