User talk:Mtkveli

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Mtkveli, good luck, and have fun. Schazjmd   (talk)  23:48, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

I was blocked for adding indigenous place names to many articles about places such as US cities; you deemed this as disruptive editing. I'd just like to inquire as to the justification for blocking my edits, and what the problem is with the edits. I have to ask this on my own talk page because the block prevents me from leaving a message on yours.
 * You were warned twice; you acknowledged the warnings by deleting them. If you resume making these edits when the block expires, you will be immediately blocked for a longer duration. Relevant policies include Manual_of_Style/Lead_section and Naming_conventions_(geographic_names).  OhNo itsJamie  Talk 04:03, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
 * This message is not a continuation of my inquiry about the block, but rather regarding the policy on place names. Just an observation; I've read the guidelines for appealing a block and I'm aware that attempting to justify one's revisions by saying "I've seen other editors do it" is not advised. That said, the reason I assumed it was appropriate to add names from indigenous languages, even ones that are not widely used, is because I had seen it very often on articles such as Anchorage, Alaska and Seattle, which had the names in the local indigenous languages, even though they're not widely used in everyday life in those places at all.
 * Additionally, I would like to ask this: I see some places, like US cities, having their indigenous name mentioned further down on the page, in the etymology or history sections when discussing the native people. If I wanted to add indigenous names that are not frequently used, would it be appropriate to add a mention of them in those sections, rather than in the lead section or info box?
 * Discussing history of inhabitants and etymologies is fine in those sections. It's not fine to canvass them unilaterally across the ledes of many articles without discussion, as you were doing, hence the block. WP:MOS has plenty of well-defined policies and conventions for lede sections. Anchorage may well be an exception; it has a fairly high percentage of native inhabitants, and the native history is celebrated and highlighted widely (e.g., Denaʼina Civic and Convention Center). It could be argued that it falls within the guidelines as such of the policies cited above. OhNo itsJamie Talk 04:54, 9 February 2020 (UTC)