2008/7/19 Michel Vuijlsteke wikipedia@zog.org:
2008/7/19 Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com: Just out of curiosity: why do you need to cite a reliable source for every transliteration? This is a one-to-one transformation without interpretation, isn't it?
I don't know, is it? It's OR to make that determination. You'd have find another source and apply that as well.
The rules are there for a good reason.
To change an article name like this, in the face of common usage, he needs a one-stop cite.
A lot of people just don't get this. The English language is chock-a-block full of mistakes that were kept; most of it is ill-translated French.
And the wikipedia is about verfiability, not truth. I expect he's right. But we don't have an acknowledged expert that has verified it.
Michel Vuijlsteke