Talk:Nikita Shchitov

Latest comment: 13 years ago by Alpha Quadrant in topic Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Not moved Consensus appears to be against the move at this time. Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 01:54, 23 October 2011 (UTC)Reply



Nikita ShchitovNikita Schitov

  • Support - per WP:COMMONNAME as verified by the sources used in the article. Dolovis (talk) 13:12, 14 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
  • Oppose. One of two English language external links uses Shitov, one Schitov. For a Russian player for a Russian team, where there seems to be no consensus as to simplified English language transliterations, seems to make sense to default to the standard transliteration from Cyrillics. Martinp (talk) 17:44, 14 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
    Not true, the original researched transliteration from Cyrillic is unverifiable. I can find no sources to support that spelling. The name is verifiably spelled as either “Shitov” or “Schitov”, but never as “Shchitov” which is unverifiable; so the article should be reverted back to its status quo title of “Nikita Schitov”. Dolovis (talk) 16:28, 16 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
    Weird. Hunted up a bit more on google (not being a hockey fan I have a hard time judging the reliability of the sources) and find reputable-looking English language sources for both Schitov and Shchitov. So I decided to look it up in Cyrillics, and - guess what - I find google mentions for both Никита Сцhитов and Никита Щитов. I would ask someone with better familiarity than me to sort out what name he writes for himself. If it is Сцhитов then we should write S-ch-itov; if Щитов, then Sh-ch-itov, I would think...we *might* have something to debate about if a specific transliteration of his name into English was clearly dominant, but does not seem to me to be the case. I note that ru.wikipedia has him under Щитов. But I defer to the wisdom of hockey fans... Martinp (talk) 19:05, 16 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
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