Talk:Sfatul Ţării
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[edit] Some suggestions
The list added is quite odd for several reasons:
- the usage of quaint denominators like "Pole" and "Hebrew" - I suggest "Polish" and "Jewish" etc.
- names of Ukrainians etc. are rendered in their Romanian transliteration, and that makes very little sense - I think we should consult Ukrainian and Russian users (perhaps Polish as well) for at least approximate forms in official transliteration(s), and use Romanian ones as alternatives. After all, one does not refer to the Siberian exile as Konstantin Georgiyevich Stere.
I also suggest that, in the future, the list of deputies be turned into a separate list. Here, it kinda messes the format. I would also like a source cited for those names and their votes. Dahn 23:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- Btw, what is the likelihood that more than 10% of these people will ever have articles? Dahn 23:37, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks for you obs. I agree with you about:
- "Polish" and "Jewish"
- that the names of non-Romanians should be necessarily in those languages
- My answers to your questions:
- Clark is my sourse.
- some ethnically Romanian Bessarabians have names of Ukrainian or Russian origin (the story is long, generally because many priests sent were Russians, and sometimes also because of intermariage). So we should be careful. Using the Latin transliteration a la Russian for a name of an ethnic Romanian would be incorrect. I did only add some diactricts in some very obvious cases: tz-->ţ (not always this one), a,-->ă, s,-->ş, or where the name could not be simply pronouced otherwise. My understanding of the Clark's data is that when he does not write n.d. (I guess means not declared, mostly those elected later) or some ethnicity, then he quite possibly means they were ethnically Romanian. If we assume that, then we are only left with 11 names of unknown ethnicity: Sucevan, Munteanu, Cernof, Hertza, Galitzky, Diaconovici, Moldovan, Ponomareff, Rugina, Sirbu, Tcepciu. With these 11, if I changed something, I might have screwed up (hopefully not, I think I only did Sirbu). Anyway, if the person has used the name after 1918 in a Romanian spelling, then I guess that would be settled, but I can hardly find many names (I am not going to search the arihives just for this article).
- absolutely no objection to ask some Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, except that we first should have a list of names which we ask (i.e. exclude the ethnic Moldavians). I can write the names in Russians if you want.
- separate list: I don't know, I'd rsather not start a new article. But I am flexible on this. Initially I hoped they might fit in 3 columns... Maybe use
smaller shrift? No, it doesn't work. Do you know how to make smaller? - I was very currious to know who many names would turn out blue, I had no way to verify that otherwise (well, except to do it in a sandbox). I hoped that at least Inculet, Halippa, Erhan, Stere, Balamez - the people everyone knows. To my dissapointment only 2 were there: Constantin Stere and :-) Ion Creanga. If you and others list below 10-20 names for which there could be hope of an article, then I will take the pains to remove the wikifications of the rest. :Dc76 01:29, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for you obs. I agree with you about:
