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• Aleksandropol Uyezd (currently a redirect to Alexandropol uezd) → Alexandropol Uyezd (currently a redirect instead to Alexandropol uezd) (move · discuss) – Trying to fix a spelling mistake in the name, but it's already a redirect Nunuxxx (talk) 13:08, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  the "քս" spelling given in the article corresponds to "ks" in the official transliteration, not to "x". Do you have reliable sources to support the use of the "x" in the transliteration of this particular name? Dr. Vogel (talk) 13:25, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  The original name of the district is in Russian and uses a Cyrillic transliteration of a latin "x" (there is no phonetic x letter in Russian) which forms as "кс", which is a foreign sound in Russian (as a native-speaker), ergo the use of "ks" instead of the original "x" in the article is a redundant and clunky double transliteration, especially given the district was named for the wife of the Tsar, Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), also whose commonly-appearing English name uses an "x" rather than a "ks". If further proof is required, I can cite English sources which use Alexandropol instead of the redundant double-transliterated "Aleksandropol", though I believe the linguistic explanation should be sufficient. Thanks. Nunuxxx (talk) 13:41, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  The sources cited in the article use the official transliteration "ks", not "x". I wouldn't feel comfortable making this move against what the sources cited say. Perhaps you could edit the article and cite reliable sources that support the spelling that you believe is correct. Dr. Vogel (talk) 13:51, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  The sources which were cited in the article previously were mainly Russian, thus the confusion arose regarding the mistranslation of the name, however, I have since cited 6 various English sources, all of which explicitly use the correct translation "Alexandropol" in regards to the district/uyezd. The sources are from reputed and renown historians on the subject of modern Transcausian history, Richard G. Hovannisian and Firuz Kazemzadeh. Nunuxxx (talk) 14:49, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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