Talk:List of Latin place names in the Balkans

message: I disagree with William Allen Simpson's convention of putting first the modern name without diacritics and then the same name with diacritics between parentheses. I think it's only a waste of space. For most of these names, there are only local spellings. Removing the diacritics from the name does not make for either an English or an "international" name. It is simply a typographical convention for typewriters that have no accent marks. But that is all ancient history. Simpson's convention is antiquated and is not followed elsewhere in the Wikipedia, e.g. in related articles such as: Names of European cities in different languages, List of European regions with alternative names, etc. I recommend using the "local spellings" only, if necessary, preceded by the name without diacritic and a pipe, only in case the Wikipedia article's title does not show the diacritics (but I believe in most cases they do).  Pasquale 22:48, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you. Everywhere in Wikipedia, the "local spellings" are used and AFAIK that is the policy. And in some cases, such as Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, these are actually transliterations of the Cyrillic names.bogdan 22:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Probably it was created back in the time when Wikipedia did not accepted UTF titles. bogdan 11:54, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

text:  For example? bogdan 11:54, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

text: *"Rosia Montana" 15:41, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  You mean Roşia Montană ? It had diacriticals from the beginningbogdan 16:33, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

text:  You mean, since you made the redirect on 2005 November 18.  The references on this page are far older. William Allen Simpson 17:13, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, I made the redirect a few hours after I created the article. bogdan 11:48, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Wrong. Search for Brasov, without diacriticals and results with diacriticals. bogdan 11:54, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

text: The references I get on this search are to the old Brasov page, which apparently you've recently moved. Most *.wikipedia also use Brasov with no diacriticals. And perhaps most importantly, the only reason that the diacritical version shows up in the (unreadable, with no translation link) ro.wikipedia is that the image is "Brasov.png" — according to the cache highlights. --William Allen Simpson 15:41, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not true. You can do that search on any site. Search for Brasov, without diacriticals on the site of the Romanian government and there are results with diacriticals. bogdan 16:33, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

text: William Allen Simpson 03:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  There are no English names for those places. When there is a widely known English name (such as "Bucharest" for "Bucureşti"), that name is used in the title. bogdan 16:33, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

text: (heavy sigh) Since there *ARE* clearly English names for the places, and they've been in books for centuries (cited in reference section), your "proof by assertion" isn't good argument. William Allen Simpson 17:13, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Local spellings in parenthesis?

message: and  this article does not have a table dedicated to Kosovo. Is one of you willing to create that table? Ktrimi991 (talk) 23:57, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kosovo table