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Closing as there hasn't been further discussion in over a week after a strong consensus that article is not to be moved

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Move back to Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya

There's no source in this article that refers to her as "Sviatlana", even the Belarussian website shows her name at Svetlana as do the rest of the websites. This needs to be moved back to correctly reflect her name as reported by reliable sources. W.K.W.W.K...Talk 11:36, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - The Belarusian site you linked is in Cyrillic and her name is given as Святлана. This is properly transliterated according to Wikipedia's preferred method as Sviatlana. Svetlana is Russian and written Светлана in Cyrillic. Arianna the First (talk) 12:46, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Many sources, including BelaPAN,[1] naviny.by,[2] UDF.by,[3] and the European Parliament[4] refer to her name as Sviatlana Cichanoŭskaja. Sviatlana Cichanoŭskaja is also the officially backed romanisation of Святлана Ціханоўская, according to the United Nations. Tāwhiwhi (talk) 13:08, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I would, incidentally, totally support a move to Sviatlana Cichanoŭskaja as I know this is the UN-approved format. I only went with Tsikhanouskaya because Wikipedia's rules prefer BGN/PCGN to Łacinka and her husband's (much older) page uses the BGN/PCGN romanisation. Arianna the First (talk) 13:40, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I support either Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya or Sviatlana Cichanoŭskaja, since they're both valid transcriptions of the Belarusian name, but I oppose any move to Russified version. Ausir (talk) 15:26, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Tāwhiwhi, in looking at your sources:

naviny.by and belpan.by appear to have the same staff and have no editorial oversight, so they would be questionable at best, further they spell her name as "Svietlana", and give a different last name as well.

europarl.europa.eu looks like a press release and her name is spelled as "Svietlana" there as well

udf.by/english/politics shows her name written as "Svyatlana" and on the same site different page, her name is written as "Sviatlana". They also spell her last name differently in both pages ( on their English site, not a google translate). This site also shows no editorial oversight.

Arianna the First on the Belarussian site I mentioned, her name on that site, without google translating it first is: Сьвятлана Ціханоўская. The last four characters in your version of her name match the reliable source, the first four do not.

All of the reliable references in this article, including one from Belarussia itself show her name as "Svetlana". W.K.W.W.K...Talk 18:54, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You may have misread. You seem to agree with me that the untranslated Cyrillic on Svaboda is Святлана. This can be transliterated as Sviatlana or Svyatlana, but most commonly as Sviatlana.
It would only be Svetlana if it was Светлана, which is not what appears on the site. It only appears as Svetlana via incorrect machine translation.
Also, it is Belarus and Belarusian. There is no such place as Belarussia and no such language as Belarussian. Arianna the First (talk) 19:18, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Arianna_the_First I'll use Belarus when referring to the country - I apologize! As to the language and the people, please note I got that from - [this article about Belarus]. Perhaps it's wrong? W.K.W.W.K...Talk 20:42, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That's ok, we're all learning! If you look at the article, "Belarusian" appears 134 times while "Belarussian" doesn't appear at all. The only references to alternative spellings are at the top of the article, referencing historical use :) Arianna the First (talk) 09:30, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Why this transliteration

Why is this transliteration being used? it would be more consistent with other articles if this was moved to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, for example Lukashenko's article isnt named Alyaksander Lukashenka, its Alexander Lukashenko. Lochglasgowstrathyre (talk) 15:24, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 14 August 2020

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya → Svetlana Tikhanovskaya – "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya" is by far the most common name in English sources. Four times more common in google news [1] [2] (81,900 results vs 23,400). Even the note in the article shows most well known sources use "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya" (see Sviatlana_Tsikhanouskaya#Notes). Vpab15 (talk) 18:08, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]


Support - As requestor. Vpab15 (talk) 18:10, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - we have had a move request already and debated this in the past. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is the correct transliteration from Belarusian - you are requesting a move to a Russian name. Many English-language sources use the existing name. Here's some examples!
Many, but not all. As a matter of fact, some of the sources you listed use the Russian form as well:
Here are other major news portals that use the transliteration from Russian:
"Many English-language sources use the existing name", yes, but most use the name "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya", which is why we should move it as per WP:commonname. If you oppose the move, please show some evidence that the current name is more common. Cherry-picking some examples is no evidence. For your first three sources (CBC, Washington Post and Euronews) I found they also use "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya" ([3] [4] [5]). I am sure I could find the same for your other examples, but I hope you get my point. Vpab15 (talk) 17:41, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - The clear majority[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] of sources use Sviatlana, which is also the Belarusian state standard transliteration of Святлана. Tāwhiwhi (talk) 23:11, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry but that's not how it works. You just cherrypicked sources which use the Belarusian transliteration and used it to proof that it is the most widely used spelling of her name. You should look at search results...maybe 10 sources use Sviatlana, and 200 use Svetlana, so to speak. Don't take the last thing literally, but I hope you see what I meant :) --Spafky (talk) 10:30, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Tāwhiwhi.-Ich (talk) 09:27, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Suppport Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is the most commonly used form, both abroad and in Belarus: Most Belarusians speak Russian at home, it is a co-official language in Belarus and most newspapers, TV and YouTube channels are in Russian. This being said, if the most commonly used form in English-language publications was the Belarusian transliteration, I would have voted Oppose. --Spafky (talk) 10:27, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Russian is a co-official and by far the most spoken language in Belarus. Let's not be more Belarusian than the Belarusians themselves. Buxareu (talk) 15:06, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, but that's just not true. First of all, the status of Russian as an official language of Belarus is disputed to begin with, because Закон аб усенародным галасаванні (рэферэндуме), which was passed in 1995, explicitly prohibits the status of the national language from being changed in the later 1995 referendum. In addition, the 50% registered voter approval threshold was not met, calling into question whether or not the referendum had any legal effect.
Secondly, in the 2009 Belarusian census, 5,058,400 people indicated Belarusian as their mother tongue, while only 3,948,100 did so for Russian. Belarusian is the mother tongue of the majority of the population of Belarus, and in the Belarusian language, her name is Sviatlana. Tāwhiwhi (talk) 15:21, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
What exactly is not true in my statement?
  • First, Russian is a co-official language, according to the 1994 Belarusian constitution. Whether someone disputes this fact or not, is a different question.
  • And secondly, a "mother tongue" and a "spoken language" is not the same thing. This is from the wiki article on the Belarusian language: "In the first Belarus Census of 1999, the Belarusian language was declared as a "language spoken at home" by about 3,686,000 Belarusian citizens (36.7% of the population).[9][10] About 6,984,000 (85.6%) of Belarusians declared it their "mother tongue". Other sources, such as Ethnologue, put the figure at approximately 2.5 million active speakers.[8][11]" So, as you can see, only one-third of the Belarusians speak Belarusian.
Sorry, but what you say is a clear misinterpretation of facts. Buxareu (talk) 15:53, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The status of the Russian language as a co-official language according to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus is in dispute. Legally, the only official language of Belarus is Belarusian, as it is illegal under the 1995 law on national language and symbols to have any other language as official or co-official to Belarusian. With regard to your second point, it's clear that according to the 2009 census, over five million people declared Belarusian as their mother tongue. This means that at least that many people, and according to those statistics, an additional one million L2 speakers, can speak Belarusian. Over 60% of Belarusians speak Belarusian, and it is the language most used among the opposition, of which Cichanoŭskaja is a part. It is disrespectful and inflammatory to use the Russian language to refer to Belarusian opposition figures, and it is also against how the majority of English-language reliable sources refer to her. The majority of English-language reliable sources give her name as Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. She's Belarusian, give her name in Belarusian. Tāwhiwhi (talk) 16:57, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Again, the official status of the Russian language is reflected in the Belarusian Constitution, the supreme law of the country. We can discuss if those changes were correct or not, but that's a different question. The fact remains a fact (reflected on Wikipedia as well): Russian is a co-official language in Belarus. Also, if one CAN speak a language, it doesn't mean he or she actually prefers to speak it. Most of the Belarusians clearly prefer to speak Russian. The number of active speakers of Belarusian is in clear minority. Your other statements ("Belarusian is the language most used among the opposition" or "It is disrespectful and inflammatory to use the Russian language to refer to Belarusian opposition figures") are basically based on emotions rather than facts and are not quite accurate, to put it mildly. As to the form used by English-language sources, I posted the list of the news portals which use the Russian form (some of them use the Belarusian form as well). BBC, CNN, Politico, DW, Reuters, to name just a few. P.S. Tikhanovskaya herself uses the Russian language in her appeals to the Belarusian people. Here's the last one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3OspbawDCA/ Russian is the main language of Tikhanovskaya's site: https://tsikhanouskaya2020.by/ It has the Belarusian version as well (https://tsikhanouskaya2020.by/by/), but it's not on the main page. Really, you should "enlighten" Tikhanovskaya that "Belarusian is the language most used among the opposition" (where did you take that from, by the way?) and that "it is disrespectful and inflammatory to use the Russian language" (sarcasm). Buxareu (talk) 17:47, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - As mentioned above, the URL she has chosen to use is "https://tsikhanouskaya2020.by" clearly implying that she spells her surname as "Tsikhanouskaya" and not as "Tikhanovskaya". Cordyceps-Zombie (talk) 17:50, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The URL does use the Belarusian form, but, like I pointed out, the main language of the site is Russian, and she also uses Russian in her appeals towards the Belarusians. Anyway, there are many cases when the spelling used by a person is not the one universally accepted, so this should not be the decisive reason. Buxareu (talk) 17:56, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose – various major, reliable sources in English use both names to various extent (sometimes even both in various articles by the same medium). I think with all the ongoing events which name dominates in English-language media might end up changing back and forth and there's no point in moving this page constantly if that happens (especially if she launches an English version of her official website eventually under the name Tsikhanouskaya, as per the URL). Both are valid transcriptions from two different languages that are both used by her and English-language media, and given that there's really no urgent need to move it now. Ausir (talk) 22:04, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If the most common names changes, we can change it back. We should choose the name which is most commonly used right now and that is "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya". Vpab15 (talk) 17:44, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Commment, so far the only reason for opposing the move is that the current name is more common. From what I found, by far the most common name is "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya" which means we should move the article as per WP:commonname. It would be good if someone who opposes the move could provide some evidence on the contrary. So far, only a few cherry-picked links have been provided. If there are other reasons to oppose the move, please provide them as well. Otherwise it seems the opposition is a personal preference more than anything else. Vpab15 (talk) 17:49, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - A there isn't an established common name we should follow WT:BE TR blindlynx (talk) 21:43, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Based on google news comparison provided above, it seems "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya" is by far the most common. Do you have any evidence that shows otherwise? Vpab15 (talk) 22:11, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Google searches isn't the best way to establish a common name (see WP:WIAN). We also have to look at reliable sources, and what she uses herself. blindlynx (talk) 22:28, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Additionally restricting searches to the past week shows a much narrower margin, and a far cry from a well established common name. Menaing we should default to WP:BELARUSIANNAMESblindlynx (talk) 22:33, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Volodymyr Zelensky's given name uses the Ukrainian transliteration and his surname uses a simplified form of BGN/PCGN romanization of Russian. Heartdreamer (talk) 03:27, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move for "Sergei Tikhanovsky"

There is also a requested move for Sergei Tikhanovsky (see Talk:Siarhei_Tsikhanouski#Requested_move_14_August_2020). If there is consensus, I think it makes sense to move both articles at the same time. Vpab15 (talk) 19:34, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think you should make it clear that you're the requester of both moves - it isn't that this arose spontaneously Arianna the First (talk) 22:55, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

President of Belarus dispute

Can we all agree that this Lady is now President Elect of The Republic of Belarus? --Samogitia (talk) 21:27, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A bit too early, I'd say. Let's wait. Buxareu (talk) 08:42, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
So what is Tsikhanouskaya's status in regards to the presidency? She has declared victory and is planning a transition of power, Lukashenko claims victory of his own, and international entities have refused to acknowledge Lukashenko's claims. The Lukashenko article describes in the infobox that his status as president is disputed with Tsikhanouskaya, shouldn't that be reciprocated here? If she was believed to have won the election, wouldn't she be the disputed president-elect? Jjj1238 22:31, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Are there any sources saying that she has international recognition as leader of Belarus? While that is the case for a similar situation in Venezuela (see Juan Guaidó), it doesn't seem like Belarus is at that stage yet, though that could change quickly in the next few days. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:03, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
She got the majority of the votes and one has to be delusional to believe in Lukashenka's official "results". Ausir (talk) 12:16, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose No. Having around 10% of the vote does not make a candidate President, unless the candidate is participating to the organisation of a Colour Revolution with foreign aid. At this time, the potential Colour Revolution is not achieved, and it will difficultly happen as the Russian Federation is offering military help to counter this Colour Revolution. So, the opponent is only one of the main spokespersons of this Colour Revolution among many lobbies and oligarchs within the European Economic Area, NATO, United States. Israeli historian J. L. Talmon used to refer this as the importation of totalitarian democracy. Totalitarian democracy and oligarchs benefit from societal collapse that is endangering the very foundation of the nation state. HLFH (talk) 11:16, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support: The election results are clearly disputed. Both sides are claiming victory. That would essentially make her the disputed or contested President-elect. { [ ( jjj 1238 ) ] } 13:28, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support: The position of Lukashenko as president of Belarus is no longer recognised by several countries. Several other countries have refused to recognise the results of the presidential election and have called for another election. Tsikhanouskaya herself has claimed to be the winner of the election and has therefore by implication claimed to be President Elect of Belarus. In the intrests of neutrality, we must now treat both claims to the presidency by Lukashenko and by Tsikhanouskaya as equally valid. This is the solution we use for Venezuela, for Yemen and for Libya where there are more than one person claiming to be the legitimate leader of those countries. Cordyceps-Zombie (talk) 13:35, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Cordyceps-Zombie and Jjj1238: Where exactly did Tikhanovskaya CLEARLY say she is the "winner" of the election? This is what the English-language sources say: "She virtually announced her election victory saying results from precincts where ballots were fairly counted show her winning 60 to 70 percent of the vote." Pretending that this is a "victory claim" is a bit of a stretch, I'd say. From what I gathered, the protesters demand Lukashenko to resign and ask for a new (fair) election. This is exactly what Kolesnikova has just announced: https://gordonua.com/news/worldnews/soratnica-tihanovskoy-kolesnikova-ozvuchila-trebovaniya-mitinguyushchih-k-vlastyam-belarusi-1513905.html/ ("И наше главное требование: бывший президент должен подать в отставку", – сказала она, добавив, что в стране должны пройти новые честные выборы".) Nothing more. Buxareu (talk) 18:12, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Buxareu Actually, she announced that she won the election: "Считаю себя победителем на выборах. У нас есть данные альтернативного подсчета, и мы будем доказывать все нарушения" Sources (Russian and English): https://meduza.io/news/2020/08/10/tihanovskaya-ob-yavila-sebya-pobeditelem-prezidentskih-vyborov-i-predlozhila-peregovory-lukashenko, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53721410 YantarCoast (talk) 19:02, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thanks. But why, then, do they ask for a new election rather than for her to be declared the winner of this last election? A bit contradictory. They must have dropped the claim that she is the winner. The Russian link you gave me is six days old. Buxareu (talk) 19:13, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the whole point of her presidency is to simply call new (free and fair) elections. That is her entire programme. I suppose Lukashenko retiring and agreeing to holding new elections would be the same outcome as a Tikhanovskaya victory. Yes, obviously the links are six days old because she made this announcement straight after election day (and the publication of the exit poll which gave Lukashenko 80%), which is quite logical really. YantarCoast (talk) 19:20, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, you're right about the only goal of her program being to call a new election (https://tsikhanouskaya2020.by/moya_programma/). Anyway, this whole thing is weird. Had she really considered herself the president-elect, she (and the other opposition leaders and protesters) would have trumpeted about it everywhere. But nobody mentions it. You can see on the Belarusian protests page what the opposition demands, and the recognition of Tikhanovskaya as President is NOT among the demands. None of the foreign leaders recognized her as President either. P.S. What I meant when I said the links are old is that she seems to have dropped the statement that she won the election. Otherwise, she would have repeated it over and over again. I support Tikhanovskaya, of course, but considering her the president-elect is way too much. Nobody does de facto. Buxareu (talk) 19:36, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ha, here's the latest news: https://gordonua.com/news/worldnews/tihanovskaya-gotovitsya-obyavit-sebya-pobeditelnicey-vyborov-v-belarusi-press-sekretar-1513911.html/ "Тихановская готовится объявить себя победительницей выборов в Беларуси – пресс-секретарь. В штабе кандидата в президенты Беларуси Светланы Тихановской ожидают, что страны Запада признают ее победу на президентских выборах, сказала ее пресс-секретарь Анна Красулина". /// She must have read our discussion here, ha-ha. Buxareu (talk) 19:42, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "BelaPAN. In pictures: Nomination group of Sviatlana Cichanoŭskaja resumes collection of ballot access signatures". en.belapan.by.
  2. ^ "Camps of Cichanoŭskaja, Babaryka and Capkala unite efforts". naviny.by. 17 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Fifteen presidential hopefuls allowed to collect ballot-access signatures". UDF.BY Новости Беларуси.
  4. ^ "Joint Statement on the continued worsening of the election environment in Belarus | d-by | Delegations | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu.
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Lede

I feel as if this article has a real problem with its lede. Every time I read it, I can't help but lose my place and get mixed up due to its organization. I propose a reorganization to something like the following.

Sviatlana Heorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya[a] (née Pilipchuk; Belarusian: Святла́на Гео́ргіеўна Ціхано́ўская (Піліпчук);[b] born 11 September 1982), is a Belarusian human rights activist and politician who ran for the 2020 Belarusian presidential election as the main opposition candidate. She is the wife of activist Siarhei Tsikhanouski. Her husband was a candidate for the same election until his arrest on 29 May 2020, after which she announced her intention to run in his place.

The incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was officially declared the victor in a contest marred by widespread electoral fraud.[12][13] Subsequently Tsikhanouskaya claimed to have won the presidential election with between 60 and 70% of the vote[14][15] and has appealed to the international community to recognise her as the winner.[16]

Obviously, if the article name is changed to the Russian transliteration, then the opposite order (Russian in lede, Belarusian in notes) could be used. Either way though, I think notes should be implemented in this lede, it is seriously hard to follow now, especially with it all condensed into one paragraph. { [ ( jjj 1238 ) ] } 22:40, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

  1. ^ some sources use Svetlana Georgiyevna Tikhanovskaya, the Russian transliteration; Russian: Светла́на Гео́ргиевна Тихано́вская (Пилипчу́к)[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
  2. ^ also Śviatłana Hieorhijeŭna Cichanoŭskaja in the Belarusian Latin alphabet

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  5. ^ Bugoslavskaya, Alexandra (9 June 2020). "Belarus prepares for tense presidential elections". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  6. ^ Karmanau, Yuras (19 July 2020). "Belarus rally for presidential challenger largest in years". Associated Press. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  7. ^ Carroll, Oliver (28 July 2020). "'We don't want blood, we just want change': The extraordinary campaign to unseat Belarusian 'dictator' Alexander Lukashenko". The Independent. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
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  12. ^ Jones, Mark P. (2018). Herron, Erik S; Pekkanen, Robert J; Shugart, Matthew S (eds.). "Presidential and Legislative Elections". The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190258658.001.0001. ISBN 9780190258658. Retrieved 21 May 2020. unanimous agreement among serious scholars that... Lukashenko's 2015 election occurred within an authoritarian context.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "Lukashenka vs. democracy: Where is Belarus heading?". AtlanticCouncil. 10 August 2020. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020. However, the vote was marred by allegations of widespread fraud. These suspicions appeared to be confirmed by data from a limited number of polling stations that broke ranks with the government and identified opposition candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya as the clear winner.
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