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| style="font-size: 8pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color: #fff;" | This user is interested in [[Auto racing|<span style="color: white">'''motor racing'''</span>]], but now only follows [[electric motorsport|<span style="color: white">'''electric motorsport'''</span>]].
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(I’m switching to first person now.)
==Other websites I may be found on==
===[[Genealogy]]===
[https://www.wikitree.com/ WikiTree] ([https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cutler-1068 my profile], [[WikiTree|English Wikipedia article]])<br/>
[http://www.geni.com/ Geni] ([http://www.geni.com/people/Matthew-Cutler/6000000040430929079 my profile], [[Geni.com|English Wikipedia article]])
===[[Video game|Gaming]]===
[http://www.cyberscore.me.uk Cyberscore] ([http://www.cyberscore.me.uk/user-68.php my profile], [http://www.cyberscore.me.uk/forum forum], [http://www.cyberscore.me.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=68 my forum profile], [[Cyberscore|English Wikipedia article]]) – I am an admin and a developer of Cyberscore.<br/>
[http://www.vgr-fr.com VGR] ([http://www.vgr-fr.com/index.php5?c=profil&id=2017 my profile], [[Video Games Records|English Wikipedia article]], [[:fr:Video Games Records|Wikipedia article (fr)]])<br/>
===[[Board games]]===
[http://brainking.com?refuid=17059 Brainking] ([http://brainking.com/en/Profile?u=17059?refuid=17059 my profile], [[Brainking|English Wikipedia article]])<br/>
[https://www.chess.com/ Chess.com] ([https://www.chess.com/member/M132T003C my profile], [[chess.com|English Wikipedia article]])<br/>
[https://lichess.org/ lichess] ([https://lichess.org/@/M132T003C lichess], [[lichess|English Wikipedia article]])
==Apparently controversial opinions on Wikipedia policies==
I have several opinions on how Wikipedia’s policies badly need changing. I consider most of these obvious, yet somehow others don’t agree (as evidenced by the existence of the current policies).
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Wikipedia has surprisingly good typography policies, but they don’t go far enough. Wikipedia asks for en and em dashes to be used whenever it is correct to use one and incorrect to use a hyphen (though there are still debated points over which cases this covers). That is fine, however…
If we can correctly use dashes, why can’t we correctly use quotes? It’s exactly the same thing, characters which don’t appear normally on most people’s keyboards but are nonetheless correct. You may notice that I always use typographically correct quotes on this page, rather than the Wikipedia-
The keyboard argument, which is also used in an attempt to remove diacritics, should be easily defeated by distributing improved keyboard layouts for those who wish to type more easily, rather than having to use the character palette below the edit window or memorize Alt codes. With my personal keyboard layout I can type these characters quickly and easily.
I can also add ellipses (…) to this argument, and should also note that the existing policy correctly
===Non-English names===
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#My further compromised preference: same as the previous, but with some words translated into English. Acceptable only for certain types of article, like country names.
Here is a table to further illustrate this, as the text I’ve written may confuse. Choosing just one of the first three columns would be consistent and acceptable, while if you actually support anything in the fourth
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! Original (with translated disambiguators where appropriate)
! Romanized
! Reasonably anglicized
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! Further notes
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| [[:el:Α.Ε.Κ. Αθηνών (ποδόσφαιρο)|Α.Ε.Κ. Αθηνών <s>(ποδόσφαιρο)</s>]] (soccer)
| A.E.K. Athinon (soccer)
| AEK Athinon (soccer)
| [[AEK Athens F.C.]]
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| [[:ar:
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| [[Al-Ahli Dubai]]
| There are several romanization systems for Arabic. I’ve used the Latin spelling that appears on the club’s logo and approximated how it would transliterate the other words. I don’t claim to be an expert on Arabic and would defer to another spelling if a better one is proposed. Remember though that my idea of a romanization is a spelling not that is supposed to target English specifically, but be appropriate for any
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| [[:fr:Côte d’Ivoire|Côte d’Ivoire]]
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| Côte d’Ivoire
| Ivory Coast
| Obviously typewriter apostrophes would have to be used instead with the policy as it is…
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| [[:sr:ФК Црвена звезда|ФК Црвена звезда]]
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| FK Crvena zvezda
| [[Red Star Belgrade]]
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| [[:de:Fußball-Bundesliga|Fußball-Bundesliga]]
| Fußball-Bundesliga
| Fußball-Bundesliga
| [[Bundesliga (men)]]
| The “Fußball-” prefix in the German and former English name of this article is because multiple sports have a Bundesliga, making “Bundesliga (men)” even more ludicrous than it may first appear.
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| [[:ja:メガドライブ|メガドライブ]]
| <s>Mega Doraibu</s> Mega Drive
| Mega Drive
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| Sega is a Japanese company, it seems the intended name of the console was “Mega Drive”, which they then transliterated into Japanese. So this is one of those annoying cases where the original language actually isn’t the original language of the words used for the object. Still, the fact that Sega named their console “Mega Drive” means that’s where the English-language article should be. The fact that they had to rename it to release it in the United States is irrelevant, especially so when the console was released under its original name in other English-speaking countries. In any case, “Sega Genesis and Mega Drive” is a terrible article name, this is a single console with two names, not two different things, as that title implies. “Genesis (Sega Mega Drive)” is also hideous, it implies that the article is about the “Genesis, which is a type of Sega Mega Drive” or similar misrepresentation; it’s just as bad as “football (soccer)”.
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| Myanmar
| [[Burma]]
| If anyone knows what the correct romanization of မြန်မာပြည် is, let me know. Wiktionary doesn’t have it and nor does Wikipedia. All I can tell is that it’s meant to be Myanmar, not Burma.
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| [[:sr:Новак Ђоковић|Новак Ђоковић]]
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| Novak Đoković
| [[Novak Djokovic]]
| Serbian has its own Latin alphabet, with direct replacements for every Cyrillic letter. There is absolutely no excuse for rendering this name in Latin as anything other than Novak Đoković.
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| [[:zh:中华人民共和国|中华人民共和国]]
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| People’s Republic of China
| [[China]]
| This article about the
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[[/Article names]] is where I shall put my opinions on naming disputes that are too long to place here.
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