The problem with ISO is that it's a standard for language-independent
transliteration to Latin script. Since labels on Wikidata are
language-dependent, making use of ISO does not make sense really. If
you use ISO for Russian names in Cyrillic script, the label you get is
not in English. It's still in Russian but transliterated to Latin
script. ISO thus would only fit as an alias for the Russian interface
language, if at all.

2015-04-26 22:39 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>:
> Hoi,
> <grin> ISO is a reliable source; it is THE standard </grin> Wikipedia is
> definitely not a standard by its own admission.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
> On 26 April 2015 at 22:37, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod@mccme.ru> wrote:
>>
>> On 2015-04-26 22:33, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>>>
>>> Hoi
>>> My point is that it is not a given that we should follow any WIkipedia
>>> for anything. Also the point of romanisation of Russian is not for the
>>> benefit of Russian speakers, it is for the speakers of English.
>>> Thanks,
>>>       GerardM
>>>
>>
>> On one hand, yes.
>>
>> On the other hand, no reliable source uses ISO. When NYT writes about a
>> Russian person, they do not use ISO, they use what the English Wikipedia
>> uses or smth similar. In my passport, they do not use ISO (fortunately), why
>> should then ISO be used on Wikidata in an entry about me?
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Yaroslav
>>
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