Talk:Novo Mesto

message: Is it Novo mesto or Novo Mesto? --Palnatoke 08:38, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In the Slovenian Wikipedia it's indeed written Novo mesto, or rather Nôvo mésto. Punkmorten 11:35, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Sorry about "Nove Mesto".  I agree that online maps are not the best reference but English-language print maps and encyclopedias are in agreement on using the capitalized form. LuiKhuntek 03:03, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mesto or mesto 

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.
*Oppose pending evidence that the uncapitalized spelling is predominant, or even competitive, in English. If both are found equally, then our convention is to follow the Slovene spelling, but that needs proof. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 17:06, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Let me tell you; I don't know how you write, but Slovenians write "mesto" (city), "vas" (village), "trg" (square) with small initial. But everything else is with big, for example: "Višnja Gora" (which means in Slovenian cherry mountain), "Nova Gorica","Velika Loka" and so on. Now it depends on you, how you'll write. For example and compare with something similar: Polish are writing: "Poznań", but we write, how we spell it: Poznanj. Greetings from Slovenia, --Amazone7 (talk) 12:23, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Answer 

message: For the sake of readers unfamiliar with Slovene, I think it's helpful to comment on the capitalization of Novo Mesto here. The city is written Novo mesto in Slovene-language texts. This is the proper way to write the name in a Slovene-language text and conforms to the rather complicated Slovene rules on capitalizing toponyms (without belaboring the issue, these rules are sufficiently complicated that many Slovenes capitalize their toponyms incorrectly, and some Slovene maps resort to all capitals to avoid the issue altogether). However, English conventionally capitalizes content words in toponyms (mesto 'town' is a content word), as do certain other languages (cf. now defunct German Karl-Marx-Stadt , French Combs-la-Ville). English also conventionally applies English capitalization style in English-language texts even to toponyms from languages that lack capitalization altogether (e.g., Chinese 上海 Shanghai, Hebrew כפר סבא Kfar Saba, Arabic جسر الشغور Jisr ash-Shugur, etc.) or to toponyms from languages (like Slovene) that follow other capitalization rules. Doremo (talk) 08:25, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This needs to be moved to "Novo mesto" which is the proper grammar of a Slovene town. Diacritics for places, names etc. are also not in use in the English language, however, they are widely used on English Wiki. Ratipok (talk) 23:04, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: English does not follow the conventions of other languages. Such a move would be equivalent to moving Opel 1.3 litre to "Opel 1,3 Liter" (to follow German), El Señor Presidente to "El señor Presidente" (to follow Spanish), or Béla Bartók to "Bartók Béla" (to follow Hungarian). Doremo (talk) 03:37, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is a well-written article that also discusses this topic: . --Eleassar my talk 09:45, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization 

message: I reverted these recent edits because they do not improve the article. In particular, capitalizing "Southwest" is a very odd choice (see MOS:COMPASS). Please discuss and justify such changes and refrain from attacking other editors with comments like "Don't get cute". Doremo (talk) 16:54, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits 

message: As suggested by User:Doremo (diff) the issue of Edit War because of the discourse of his English  language regarding this article, the following topics are now displayed here to open a discussion after several reverts by him during the last weeks (in my opinion, this belongs to the user talk): History. What is to do to end this EW / vandalism. See also Diff as of 7 January 2021, 17:11 I am almost fed up. He thinks, his English language skills are great, but in my opinion, he is performing really poor in this matter. Due to Community  regulations regarding EW, a solution must be concluded somehow. I ask Dormo to resign from any English language content matter at Wikimedia projects unless he has gained a higher level of skills (which has to be proven by presenting better products or certificates). After a vandalism warning yesterday by me, he should consider a change of behavior in the very near future. BFN, --Mateus2019 (talk) 00:38, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  English language issues (EW)