User talk:Trip Tucker

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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:04, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Translation request

Hello.

Can you translate and upload en:Science and technology in Azerbaijan and en:Baku State University in Danish Wikipedia?

Yours sincerely, Artoxx (talk) 12:29, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Aliases for Estonian places

I wonder, based on what you add old German-language and Swedish-language names as aliases for other languages? For instance, "Kertel" and "Kärrdal" quite surely aren't used in Estonian-language texts for Kärdla (Q155066). Or, is there evidence that some Esperanto-language or Turkish-language source uses these name variants? 2001:7D0:81E6:EF80:D8BB:E5A4:5FBC:2E24 08:23, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

No, obviously these are historical names no longer in use. But they are still names that have been used previously for these locations that you might encounter in historical texts. Old names, historical spellings or names in different languages of cities are quite common to add as aliases so you can be redirected to the current official name, especially with cities that have changed names. Trip Tucker (talk) 08:32, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Yes, an alias in a language is probably fine if it actually occurs in historical texts written in given language. For instance, it's probably likelier that old Swedish-language text uses old German-language name, or vice versa. But the existence of old Esperanto-language or Turkish-language texts using these names, at least for smaller places, is quite dubious. If (old) texts in given language actually don't use given name variant then the alias is misleading. As for being "redirected", do you mean search suggestions? It shouldn't be necessary to enter names for this purpose as search suggestions are based on labels and aliases of all languages anyway. 2001:7D0:81E6:EF80:D8BB:E5A4:5FBC:2E24 09:02, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Also, please note that in many cases the old German-language name stood for historical manor estate, like Jõgeva manor (Q12365749), not the (modern) settlement, like Jõgeva (Q117513). 2001:7D0:81E6:EF80:D8BB:E5A4:5FBC:2E24 08:29, 1 June 2022 (UTC)