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Alex, your renaming of this article doesn't seem to have worked right; the title shows up as ''Cherkas’ka oblast’ in my browser (looks like your browser sent UTF-8, but it's being rendered in ISO-8859-1). I'll try to rename it again—my apologies if I screw up something that's in progress. —Michael Z. 19:14, 2004 Sep 17 (UTC)
Posted that page for speedy deletion since it was a result of an editing bug. The normal version of this page is here. Best wishes, AlexPU 10:41, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
No consensus to move. After extended time for discussion, there is a clear absence of consensus for a move at this time. BD2412T04:12, 22 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Support While a lot of recent popular usage has followed Wikipedia’s capitalization (byWP:CITOGENESIS), I have seen many or most academic sources use lower case for this kind of geographical reference with proper name plus foreign subdivision type. For example, the proper name Kyivska (oblast) = Kyiv oblast, Kyiv region, or Kyiv province, in parallel with the city’s name (misto) Kyiv = Kyiv (city). I recall the global use of capitalized “oblast” was something we agreed a long time ago, but without a firm basis. —MichaelZ.17:25, 12 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Looking at news sources only is skewed, but anyway Google News restricted to the last 24 hours gives me 1 Kharkiv oblast, 2 Kharkiv Oblast,[1] 1 Kharkiv province,[2] and 29 Kharkiv region[3] (the latter can be interpreted in a more general sense, but is still a common direct translation). —MichaelZ.19:01, 14 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Zarkapattia (=“trans-Carpathia”) is an exception, because it is a geographical region and predates the institutionalization of oblasts. But the oblasts are political subdivisions subordinate to their capitals and mostly named for them, so Kharkiv oblast is the oblast of the city of Kharkiv. In Ukrainian it can be referred to by the adjectival form and properly l.c. division type Kharkivsa oblast or a derived name using a geographical suffix Kharkivshchyna. I don’t know if it’s really a middle ground, because saying “Kharkiv oblast” is using a disambiguator as we would distinguish the “state of Georgia” from the UN member country. —MichaelZ.19:18, 14 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Per WP:AT, naturalness is a selection criteria for an article name. Where disambiguation is required (as is here), "natural language" is preferred over parenthetic disambiguation (ie using brackets or a comma). Cinderella157 (talk) 09:54, 15 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Cinderella157, Mzajac—would either of you be able to provide examples of English Wikipedia article titles that split the capitalization in the manner being proposed? I could be persuaded to come around if there were notable precedent, but I’m finding none. To be unambiguous, I’m looking for examples that parallel these article titles reasonably closely, so place names would be the gold standard; I’m open to alternatives, but instances in which a name is being used as an adjective inside a larger phrase (e.g., Effects of the Chernobyl disasteror1992 Los Angeles riots) would not be suitable examples. Cheers —jameslucas▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄16:00, 15 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
JamesLucas, I can cite the following multipage moves which are similar to this proposal where the result has been to down-case the descriptor (eg "provence" or "vilayet") [4][5][6]
I don’t love the potential to make title capitalization more subject to debate, but your examples seems like compelling evidence that this new format has traction. Change always looks weird at the outset, so that shouldn’t be an argument against it. I have amended my position to ‘neutral’. —jameslucas▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄13:58, 16 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Support Per WP:AT (on caps), WP:NCCAPS, MOS:CAPS and WP:CONSISTENT. These are descriptive noun phrases and not intrinsically a proper name (ie they describe the oblast of X). In Cyrillic script, they are not capitalised - see lead section: Cherkasy Oblast,Odessa Oblast and Volyn Oblast as examples. If the phrase (specifically "oblast") is not normally capitalised in its native language (and similar languages) that have similar orthographic conventions for capitalisation of proper names, it is a strong indicator not to capitalise here. As well as the n-grams sampled by the OP, I sampled Sumy oblast, Lviv oblast and Kirovohrad oblast. It should be noted that n-grams do not distinguish headings, captions and like that are normally in title-case not running prose and tend to over-report capitalisation in running prose as a consequence. MOS:CAPS states: only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia. Collectively, the proposed articles do not appear to meet the high threshold set by MOS:CAPS, nor does there appear to be evidence herein that would meet the WP:BURDEN set by MOS:CAPS that capitalisation is necessary. If it might be shown that a particular case achieves the threshold set, then WP:CONSISTENT applies to a set of articles for a particular country. Cinderella157 (talk) 09:49, 15 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
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Template:Largest cities of Cherkasy Oblast has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --Triggerhippie4 (talk) 09:43, 6 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
