I agree up to a point. Transliteration is not appropriate for labels for all items. There are however a few categories of items for which transliterated labels are appropriate. For example : * English labels for villages and towns * English labels for people *English labels for bands and albums I'm sure there are others that could use this too.
Joe On 27 Apr 2015 18:09, "Leon Liesener" <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem with ISO is that it's a standard for language-independent > transliteration to Latin script. Since labels on Wikidata are > language-dependent, making use of ISO does not make sense really. If > you use ISO for Russian names in Cyrillic script, the label you get is > not in English. It's still in Russian but transliterated to Latin > script. ISO thus would only fit as an alias for the Russian interface > language, if at all. > > 2015-04-26 22:39 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>: > > Hoi, > > <grin> ISO is a reliable source; it is THE standard </grin> Wikipedia is > > definitely not a standard by its own admission. > > Thanks, > > GerardM > > > > On 26 April 2015 at 22:37, Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On 2015-04-26 22:33, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > >>> > >>> Hoi > >>> My point is that it is not a given that we should follow any WIkipedia > >>> for anything. Also the point of romanisation of Russian is not for the > >>> benefit of Russian speakers, it is for the speakers of English. > >>> Thanks, > >>> GerardM > >>> > >> > >> On one hand, yes. > >> > >> On the other hand, no reliable source uses ISO. When NYT writes about a > >> Russian person, they do not use ISO, they use what the English Wikipedia > >> uses or smth similar. In my passport, they do not use ISO > (fortunately), why > >> should then ISO be used on Wikidata in an entry about me? > >> > >> > >> Cheers > >> Yaroslav > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikidata-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikidata-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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