Talk:Üçtəpə, Goygol

Naming conventions

As Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) puts it: "Names not originally in a Latin alphabet, as with Greek, Chinese or Russian, must be transliterated into characters generally intelligible to literate speakers of English. Established systematic transliterations (e.g. Hanyu Pinyin) are preferred." The Turkic languages such as Turkish and Azeri use characters not normally found in English, even though the modern form of those languages is Latin character based. For example, the "c" with a cedilla is used for a sound close to "dz" or "ch", rather than the more familiar French or Portuguese "s" sound. See also, for example, the English form Ashgabat for the Turkmen Aşgabat. Another example is the use of the letter Ə for the near-open front unrounded vowel. See the article on the Azerbaijani alphabet for more examples. Here, why not use "Uchtapa" or the less accurate but more common "Uctapa" for the name of this article? Those make more sense in English, rather than the "official" Azeri spelling. --Bejnar (talk) 05:51, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Goygol is Xanlar

The first reference refers to http://www.mcdmerkez.org/ts_general/azl/belediye/b-64.htm which is about the Xanlar rayon with specific reference to the municipality (bələdiyyəsi) and the town (kəndi) there of Üçtəpə, or in the GNS form "Uctapa". They haven't caught up with the change from Xanlar to Goygol in April 2008. --Bejnar (talk) 05:51, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

There are two other Uctapas in Azerbaijan

The geonames server lists three Üçtəpə or Uctapa in Azerbaijan, one in Baku (Bakı), one in Cəlilabad, Jalilabad Rayon, and this one in Goygol. --Bejnar (talk) 05:51, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Municipality

Both of the references, as of 18 November 2008, are in Azeri, where the word "bələdiyyəsi" means municipality rather than town, indicating an area of administrative responsibility over a larger area, as well as being the name of a town (kəndi). --Bejnar (talk) 05:51, 18 November 2008 (UTC)