Talk:Dzau District

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Requested move 11 November 2017

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved. Much stronger arguments by those in support. Jenks24 (talk) 04:23, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dzau district → Dzau District – as everywhere else for raions Category:Districts of Abkhazia, Category:Districts of Belarus, Category:Districts of Kazakhstan, Category:Districts of Transnistria ... 77.180.152.76 (talk) 23:35, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). GeoffreyT2000 ^{(talk, contribs)} 05:58, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose—Capping the D for "district" is usually not done on WP. MOSCAPS says to minimise unnecessary capitalisation. Tony (talk) 00:16, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - "usually not done on WP" - everyone is free to look at the pages given in the RM (Category:Districts of Abkhazia, Category:Districts of Belarus, Category:Districts of Kazakhstan, Category:Districts of Transnistria) and then to decide if the claim by Tony1 is justified by truth or not. Additionally: districts/municipalities in Georgia : Category:Districts of Georgia (country) and elsewhere in WP, cf.: USA Washington County, Belarus Minsk District, Ukraine Desnianskyi District, Kiev, Kazakhstan Abay District, East Kazakhstan, Vietname Thoại Sơn District, Iran Asara District, Russia Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Oblast. 78.55.225.61 (talk) 00:12, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Question for clarification/Request for evidence - User:Tony1 now you claimed it, can you provide any evidence for your claim? Any set of districts outside India for which the articles are named "X district" and not "X District"? 78.55.237.211 (talk) 05:22, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose and RM the other articles in the category (and the subcategory names): If you see the original Cyrillic, the word we're translating as "district" is not capitalized. This is the same as ongoing Chinese railway RM: overcapitalization to suit personal preferences, and basically is a form of WP:OR. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 05:29, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Relevant are rules of the English language, capitalisation of other languages is irrelevant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.55.174.216 (talk) 00:14, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support as is done per WP house style for articles in ~75 other district categories
and also for articles about entities that have other type names including but not limited to the following 100 categories:
More than 10000 articles have the type name uppercase, treat this district of South Ossetia-Alania according to the Wikipedia house style. 80.171.244.231 (talk) 19:12, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Michael Z. 2017-11-12 01:42 z
Support. Using lowercase "district" (or a similar entity identifier) is not the norm at all. Yes, MOSCAPS instructs to avoid unnecessary capitalization, but customary English usage puts article titles of this kind very much out of the "unnecessary" territory. Lowercase here looks odd, is not supported by sources (or at least no one has bothered to point them out), and I see no convincing argument for why it should stay that way. How this is handled in the Georgian or Ossetian languages is very much irrelevant, as this is the English Wikipedia. Also, consider consistency. Even if you think capitalizing or not capitalizing the entity identifier falls into a grey area of Wikipedia guidelines, in absence of a convincing argument either way, it still makes sense to choose an approach that's most similar to what's being used elsewhere, if only to minimize maintenance.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 14, 2017; 21:35 (UTC)

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WP:CFD C2D

User:Tony1 continues to oppose suggestions to apply WP standards on South Ossetia related pages, now opposing C2D: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Speedy&diff=811171528&oldid=811169937 78.55.24.97 (talk) 12:04, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]