User talk:Xsara

Hi Xsara, sorry, I don't want to be impolite. But I must say your English is simply too poor. It's very difficult to have a discussion with you this way. People simply don't understand what you are trying to say. And you often don't seem to understand us. I don't think you should engage in a debate over language use in the English Wikipedia like this. Can you please try and find something else to contribute to Wikipedia? Sorry - Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:47, 12 October 2006 (UTC)


 * yes i know thats poor english. but the thats enough to see and correct mistakes, twists, fakes,.. . and you didnt give any answer my reason about Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names).--Xsara 10:06, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, my own opinion has been for a while that foreign names should be mentioned, but that they should not necessarily be mentioned in the lead sentence. They should be moved somewhere else if they are too many, require too much explanation, or if there are too many other more imporant facts that you want to have in the lead. If it was purely up to me, the lead section of Istanbul would look like this:

Istanbul is Turkey's most populous city, and its cultural, and economic centre. Located on both sides of the Bosphorus, it is the only metropolis in the world which spans two continents (European (Thrace) and on the Asian (Anatolia). Istanbul has a history of over two millenia and has been known under many different names, most notably Byzantium, Constantinople, and Stambul (see Names of Istanbul for more).

Many people are fixated on what goes in that very first sentence, and want to see their names there, or want to see name A in the lead of article B in reciprocity for having name C in article D. I don't like that, but as long as there is no clear agreement either way, I'll rather have too many names than too few. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:22, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

i like your 'first sentence' writing. you are removing the writings :) . i think you can also link the words to the words' tab in the page. byzantium links to byzantium tab in the page. are you agree me?--Xsara 10:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

you must write this sentence to the istanbul talk page! it will be a consensus.--Xsara 10:43, 12 October 2006 (UTC)