User talk:King Vegita/WP:Egyptian Deities

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To accept the proposal.

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Oppose

I have to say that I think that this violates the intent of WP:NC(CN), which specificly states: "Wikipedia is not a place to advocate a title change in order to reflect recent scholarship. The articles themselves reflect recent scholarship but the titles should represent common usage." Therefore, I oppose this proposal. -999 (Talk) 19:23, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose per 999's argument. This seems to me like it supposed to cancel out an existing policy or guideline with the following sentence: This is a proposed policy in development to regularize the names of pages on the subject of Egyptian deities in supercedence of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names). I seriously doubt anyone will allow this. SynergeticMaggot 19:37, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

K.V. : This proposal should more likely be renamed to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Egyptian names), or to put it in line with the other proposals: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Egyptian).

This proposal arose from a survey on Djehuty's talk page, where its currently being suggested to redirect to Thoth. SynergeticMaggot 20:07, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Now don't get me wrong here, I fully support a naming convention, or a MoS convention for Egyptian usages of terms, deities or anything germane. But the current proposal is not working with other existing policies and guidelines, but wishes to simply ignore them. Below is a list of examples of other proposals simular to this, that already work with existing naming conventions and guidelines:

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Arabic)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Czech)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Dharmic)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)

I'll stop right there, as I could actually name all of the proposals listed under "N" on the proposals page. My suggestion to you K.V., is that you make a few minor alterations to your wording to conform, or this will likely be rejected as soon as someone notices the page is out of place on the list. SynergeticMaggot 21:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Here is a sentence from the current statement of this policy:

Due to problems of common names for Egyptian deities... it is impossible for many Egyptian deity articles named as per WP:Naming Conventions (common names) to be accurate, well-written, and easy to understand at the same time.

The above statement is false. But even if you change the word "impossible" to "difficult" (and then agreed with it), it wouldn't support this policy. The requirement to discuss the names and transliterations of Egyptian deities' names remains, no matter what the title of the article is. --Yath 23:57, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

On the proposal

I wasn't aware that {{proposed}} made it actually listed as a proposed policy. I am not done working on it yet, and do not wish to officially propose it yet. I have removed the template to correct this.

KV(Talk) 01:49, 23 July 2006 (UTC)