Talk:Akmola Region

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I am trying to verify/clarify the discrepancies in the bounadry for Akmola Province...[edit]

This is my image, that a user/customer said was not correct. The one on the left is the old and the one on the right is the current.

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  This is what I found online which matches mine.

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  This is what I found at Wikipedia showing boundary for province 3   
  same as mine on the left and also matches Google-Earth boundary.

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  however, from the Wikipedia page, go down to the list of provinces and click on item 3 Akmola, click on image at right...image matches mine and the one at aboutkazakhstan.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Akmol_obl.svg

Can anyone shed some light on this discrepancy? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.173.6.110 (talk) 12:43, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling of Akmola Region versus Aqmola Region[edit]

I reverted the move of this article to "Aqmola Region" because, while recognizing that the Kazakh consonant is generally written with "q", it is the WP:COMMONNAME that we should be using. Batternut (talk) 14:04, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 31 May 2018[edit]

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The result of the move request was: NOT MOVED The supporters, Shadowzpaev, Igor1383, and Dinked2 are the same person, per SPI (non-admin closure)Galobtter (pingó mió) 16:49, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Akmola Region → Aqmola Region – Akmola is misspelled since its a native Kazakh name where Ақмола is transliterated into Aqmola. Last thing is that even on maps, you can see the region spelled with the letter "q" which makes it a correct common name. Shadowzpaev (talk) 16:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, if we are talking about maps, Google Maps shows Akmola.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:10, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support, Google Maps uses Wikipedia source. If you go in it, you would see description heading to Wikipedia link. The rest do not. Igor1383 (talk) 19:27, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: It may be the old transliteration, but WP:Commonname should prevail, and for now "Akmola Region" outnumbers "Aqmola Region" by about 20 to 1 in book mentions, and by 2,080 to 1 in news mentions (google hit counts). Batternut (talk) 20:37, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support: Many cities with accent marks I see have less results than the one without accent marks and yet Wikipedia still names these articles based on the native language names. So that's why "Akmola" should be "Aqmola". Dinked2 (talk) 22:18, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a policy justifying that, or is it just a WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument? Batternut (talk) 22:31, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - RfC Should Kazakhstan article names follow current transliteration rules? pertains to this and related move requests. Batternut (talk) 08:03, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.