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Thanks for your help on Istanbul Metro pages!

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No problem, happy to help! GMB205 (talk) 09:09, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Thanks for your work on the Istanbul Metro. These articles are great, and they are an excellent addition to Wikipedia.

However, I've got one small caveat; I saw you used the name "Türkiye" in these articles as the name of the country generally known in English as "Turkey". I've just edited those articles to fix the country name to use the English version, as specified by the

policy, so there's no need for you to do anything to change them; just please use the English exonym "Turkey" from now on instead of the native endonym "Türkiye" when creating articles.

Here's a quick Q&A on the issue:

Q: Why don't you use the name Türkiye, the correct name for this country?

A: Because the English-language Wikipedia has a

Deutschland

, and we use the name Japan instead of the native name 日本.

Q: But the Turkish government, U.S. State Department, and United Nations all use "Türkiye", so it must be correct.

A: Indeed they do. But

WP:COMMONNAME

is not authority-based, but usage-based.

Notice that this does not apply when we are quoting a literal name in Turkish; for example, the newspaper is called Türkiye, not Turkey. To do that would be hypercorrection, and we don't do that. Nor do we mangle the name into English in direct quotations, including titles of documents, nor in URLs. But it does apply for all uses in Wikipedia's own voice in the English language, including article titles (so the capital is Ankara, Turkey, not "Ankara, Türkiye")

If or when that general English-language usage changes (as has happened in the past with place names such as

policy implies that the English-language Wikipedia will necessarily also follow suit. So far, that hasn't happened.

This has been discussed many times, with the same result every time because of the common name policy. If you'd like to discuss this further, please take it up at Talk:Turkey. — The Anome (talk) 11:39, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I notice that your Istanbul Metro articles have blank talk pages. If you create a talk page for them with the following templates on:

{{WikiProject Turkey}}
{{WikiProject Trains|Subway=yes|stations=yes}}

they will be automatically added to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Turkey and Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains watchlists, allowing other editors to review and improve those articles further.

You can see an example of this at Talk:Çırçır (Istanbul Metro).

— The Anome (talk) 11:58, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]