beda hello sorry for the long message in march there was a wp rm request and vote which you took part in to move beda to ubeda with a result see talk ubeda requested move c abeda e ubeda or perhaps here if renamed however beginning in april and lasting several months there was a survey conducted at wikipedia talk naming conventions use english proposal and straw poll regarding place names with diacritical marks with dozens of participants voting and discussing over an extended period of time the purpose of the survey was to try to gather feedback for what the policy should be globally proponents of diacritics were in the majority and in general use of diacritics is widespread in actual practice on wikipedia today particularly since the mediawiki upgrade to unicode however for beda ubeda philip baird shearer is stating that the wp rm vote takes precedence over the survey results and a new wp rm vote would be required to move it to beda my position is that there should be a global policy rather than case by case voting that was the whole purpose of the survey in discussion with him i wrote just as we wouldn't have case by case voting on say capitalization issues for articles eg prepositions in movie and book titles should be lowercase globally we shouldn't have case by case voting on diacritic issues see the discussion at talk ubeda talk page discussion on page move or perhaps here if renamed as a possible alternative to calling a new wp rm vote which might set a precedent for case by case voting across thousands of articles i am polling all the participants of the original wp rm vote to ask regardless of how you voted in the wp rm voting which do you believe should take precedence the earlier wp rm vote on the specific article or the subsequent survey note since philip baird shearer was one of the participants in that vote he will also be receiving this message and thus will have the opportunity to respond