User talk:Starrssin

April 2024
Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. I just wanted to let you know that your recent edits to change the spelling of cities, using find and replace, was unnecessary as there will always be different translations. Also, if one article naturally evolves to use one style/translation there is no need to change that if it is consistent within the article. Please also check your edits before publishing, to not change names in URLs, newspaper article names, and such. Thanks! Rusty4321 talk contribs 15:01, 27 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for letting me know about URLs and newspaper article names. But I can't entirely agree with it being unnecessary, as there's a political reason for having two separate translations for the spelling of the cities I'm trying to fix. Transliterations based on Russian names became common practice because of aggressive Russification policies from the Russian Imperial and later Soviet governments and I believe it's important to take that into account. Thanks. Starrssin (talk) 15:06, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The consensus is not to change Kiev to Kyiv in historical contexts. This is especially true for early medieval contexts. Mellk (talk) 15:50, 29 April 2024 (UTC)