Talk:Onești

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Super Dromaeosaurus in topic News

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What do you think about using the correct characters ș and ț rather than the wrong (but widespread) ones, ş and ţ? See Romanian alphabet. Note that even the article name has one such character. Aditsu 18:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Because most computers can't display them correctly, thanks to the guys at ISO and later to the guys at Microsoft... (default pre-Windows XP installations can't display them) I tried a recent Knoppix distribution and they also didn't work...
And by default, the Windows Romanian keyboard settings still make you write ş and ţ, and as such 99% of the sites use the wrong ones.
This problem is not recent. See: Image:Scînteia 21 decembrie 1989.jpg and this was before computers. bogdan 19:15, 18 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

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@Super Dromaeosaurus: I don't find the news of the murder of the two workers relevant. Such serious cases have existed in the history of the city, even during the communist period (after all, it is an industrial city...). I thought that on ro.wiki I could write an article on this topic, as it is very well known and has caused some scandals in the country. But I don't know if it would be notable. What do you think?--Kun Kipcsak (talk) 16:06, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi, the event has received considerable coverage by the Romanian media and the article could be better than its current state. I think that if I had more information, sources and a more organized and aesthetic format, the notability of the article wouldn't be doubted at first glance at least. I doubt the article will be deleted on English Wikipedia as there seems to be no consensus on the AfD discussion, and if it is kept on here, there is no reason not to have an article on the event on Romanian Wikipedia. Anyway, maybe you could wait until the AfD here is over just to be sure, but I would create the page there without worries if I were you. Super Ψ Dro 17:33, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
Chicago had 769 murders last year alone. Imagine if we used the same approach there. — Biruitorul Talk 17:37, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
That's why murders there are less notable than murders in Onești. I imagine that such things don't happen there daily, so this is a more or less isolated or at least rare occurence. And anyways, we have lots of pages of relatively recent murders in the United States [1] [2]. Compare the around 50 murder with articles located in those two categories with this category about Romania with just 6 articles [3]. Super Ψ Dro 17:59, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
This is a separate issue from whether such incidents should be mentioned in the articles about the cities where they occurred. The murder of Patricia Alatorre may have created a lot of headlines, but it will never be mentioned at Bakersfield, California, despite the rather uneventful history of that city, because routine news is not really history. — Biruitorul Talk 18:19, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
It definitively should in my opinion. I think city articles should encompass anything notable about them, and if there's an event that happened on the city with a Wikipedia article, it means that it is notable and that therefore deserves a mention too. A short sentence doesn't hurt, after all. Of course that the event contrasts and appears to be given undue weight when the history section is that short. Super Ψ Dro 20:04, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply