Talk:Peter Leko

message: I'd like to point out that Leko has been marked (as of wikipedia's article, anyway) as "someone with eidetic memory". That's something pretty rare I guess... which should be somewhat documented SOMEWHERE. However, nowhere in the article it explains why he belongs in that cateory, nor does it mention anywhere anything at all about it.
I don't think it belongs there, long story short (I don't think this can be true). If it does, then someone should try to document it. For the moment, it's misleading, at the very best.
Seigneur101 03:50, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Many top chess players have excellent memory. I've never heard of any evidence that Leko is unique in this regard. e.g. he is not exceptional at blindfold chess - see the 2006 Melody Amber results: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3010 . I suggest it's just a case of Leko (like all top chess players) being extremely intelligent and having a very good memory. I think it should be deleted, both from here and from the eidetic memory article. Peter Ballard 04:45, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Oh well, I just added it on the basis of it being in that article.  I won't object to it being removes, but is there any source for him having it?  Bubba73 (talk), 23:04, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds to me like a Wikipedia rumour - once it gets on Wikipedia, it's propagated around as if it is fact. I think it should be deleted unless documented as true. Even if true, it's not essential to the article anyway (i.e. what's the harm in deleting it?). Peter Ballard 05:36, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I put it in, but I'm not opposed to deleting it.  I requested a citation both in this article and eidetic memory.  Bubba73 (talk), 23:23, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  eidetic memory 

message: The page name has been discussed before on this talk page.  I have rarely seen "Péter Lékó" in any English language source except for wikipedia.  Peter Leko's own official website http://lekochess.com consistently uses "Leko", and specifically on his biography it says
:Name:  	Peter Leko
:Date of birth: 	08-09-1979
:Country: 	Hungary
and so on, "Peter Leko" is used exclusively on this page.  Using google to search http://lekochess.com for "Lékó" gives only a couple of instances, whereas "Leko", as expected, gives many.  The wikipedia page was moved from Peter Leko to Péter Lékó in August 2006.  I think that move was a mistake and should be reversed, as as far as I know, the spelling with diacritics is rarely used in English.  See WP:ENGLISH: "If you are talking about a person, country, town, film, book, or video game, use the most commonly used English version of the name for the article, as you would find it in other encyclopedias and reference works."  Quale 02:53, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the move/rename because of WP:ENGLISH.  I think there is a more specific policy somewhere.  Bubba73 (talk), 03:08, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  From the same page, "If there is no commonly used English name, use an accepted transliteration of the name in the original language."  So "é" should be "e" and "ó" should be "o". Bubba73 (talk), 03:11, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

text: I forgot to mention that if the Hungarian title were desired it should be "Lékó Péter" anyway, since I think that's the name ordering used. Quale 03:13, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the move. Some time ago I reversed a change from Evgeny Sveshnikov to his Latvian name for similar reasons. Brittle heaven 11:19, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree too.  Baccyak4H (Yak!) 16:22, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Well, "Péter Lékó" doesn't read like "Peter Leko". If he's Hungarian and the name contains diacritics, they should remain there so to assist readers in pronouncing his name correctly. Those who know how to read them, that is. Those who don't know how to read them will mispronounce the name anyway. Furthermore, it's only encyclopedic to have names written in their most accurate forms. Húsönd 19:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not what WP:ENGLISH says.  English language sources overwhelmingly prefer "Peter Leko".  Also, my understanding is his name in Hungarian is "Lékó Péter", and that doesn't make sense for the English-language wikipedia.  Also, it isn't just what "websites" say.  It's Leko's official website.  Dealing with you is tedious since you choose to war to try to get your way rather than working to change the relevant guidelines by consensus.  We went through this at Arpad Elo, and now you're starting it again.  Quale (talk) 05:28, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I also think "Peter Leko" is the right name for this article. Anyone wanting to move this article again, should first try to gain consensus on this talk page. Voorlandt (talk) 07:02, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Old requested move

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 08:01, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Support As per my comments in the relevant section above. Hobartimus (talk) 11:29, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Question: per WP:English André Citroën should be moved to Andre Citroen as the diacriticless version definitely has more English hits on Google? Also check out the talk page. Squash Racket (talk) 12:31, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, surely it must have been at least one of those reasons, as the person's actual name bears diacritics, regardless of whether or not they appear on his own website. Péter cannot sign his name without them, as the vowels with accents are actually separate letters in Hungarian. If he were to sign "Peter Leko", then other Hungarians would regard him as illiterate. However, surely he must be aware that most English speakers don't know what a diacritic is, let alone how to pronounce them. "What difference could it make if my website writes my accurate name?"- might he think -"it's not like Quale and others will realize that my name reads in a complete different way if diacritics were to be taken into account". Húsönd 13:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: The info box gives his full name as "Peter Leko", but FIDE gives a middle initial of M, so that is not his full name.  Bubba73 (talk), 07:40, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  full name 

message: It's pretty obvious that I'm doing a big overhaul of this page, but I'm in need of images to bring into the article. In particular I'd like one of Leko at around the time he was a WC challenger. There are images online, for example one where he is against Topalov during the 2002 Candidates final, but frankly the regulations on images confound me and I'm not really sure how to proceed. For Peter Leko I'm relying on the 21 images on WikiCommons but its not really enough to do the job properly. Any help greatly appreciated Jkmaskell 17:40, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peter Leko images