Would welcome comments of this place name.

Question

A change has been made to the death place on this profile (I had the English version before). It now seems to be a weird hybrid, part Russian, part English. Is this really what we want it to be or perhaps it should be in cyrillic.

Answer 1

WikiTree policy is to "use their terms, not ours."

This profile is of an Englishman who died in Russia, not a Russian man. If on the morning of the day he died he was asked where he was, I would suspect he would have answered, "Saint Petersburg, Russia."

Comments

Thanks for the best answer, Fann Fann.

Answer 2

It should either be as it was or Sankt-Peterburg, Rossiyskaya Imperiya, not a mixture of both English or Ruskian.

Comments

It would help to put one language in the date field and then put the other in the biography area with a short explanation. That way everyone will understand no matter where they are coming from.

Answer 3

I could understand St Petersburg, Russian Empire. Not what’s there.But why they changed it to that is unusual.

Answer 4

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire is in the place name database as appropriate for 1703-1914.

Comments

But is it normal to render it as "Sankt-Peterburg, Sankt-Peterburg, Sankt-Peterburg, Russian Empire"?

It is really necessary for 3 times Sankt-Peterburg?

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Definitely not. The place names crosscheck for initial profile entries is new. Even then, users may ignore the suggested name by time period. Too bad, as it's a useful data validation tool.

Answer 5

My education is sadly lacking, obviously. Last time I was in St Petersburg they were still rendering everything in Cyrillic. (Try getting around on the underground). When did these places start getting rendered in Roman lettering?

Comments

He was a non-native.

Answer 6

The category of the similar ilk should be deleted and replaced with a standard too.

Answer 7

Per the change log:

29 Jun 2017
14:18: EditBot WikiTree edited the Biography for Thomas George Grosvenor (1842-1886). (Renaming category: St Petersburg, Russia)

Thus, it was set to a standard, and subsequently an inappropriate change was applied.