Wikipedia:Romanization
The following gives an overview of pages dealing with the romanization conventions for various languages in Wikipedia articles.
Conventional spelling is preferred for article titles
editIf an entity has a widely accepted conventional English name, that name is to be used. For example, Wikipedia does not transliterate Москва as Moskva, but uses "Moscow". For more information, see Wikipedia: Naming conventions (use English); this, and the individual conventions cited below, are generally consensus among Wikipedians, and the central ideas, summarized in Wikipedia:Article titles, are policy.
Overview
edit- Armenian
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Armenian)
- Burmese
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Burmese)
- Chinese
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese)
- Cyrillic
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
- Belarusian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
- Bulgarian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
- Kyrgyz: Romanization of Kyrgyz
- Macedonian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
- Mongolian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Mongolian)
- Russian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian
- Rusyn: Wikipedia:Romanization of Rusyn
- Serbian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
- Ukrainian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Ukrainian
- Greek
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek)
- (See also Romanization of Greek)
- Hebrew
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew)
- Indic languages
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)
- Wikipedia:Indic transliteration
- Japanese
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)
- Korean
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Korea-related articles)
There are also several proposed, inactive, and historic naming conventions about various languages, which do not currently have consensus.