User talk:Rwpardey01

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Your edits on Swaziland[edit]

Hello. Please stop changing Eswatini to eSwatini, since it's clearly wrong: see the long discussion on the talk page of the article. Continuing to make those changes, in spite of now having been reverted by two other editors, will be seen as disruptive editing, and treated accordingly. Thank you. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 12:55, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the name from Swaziland to eSwatini as that is now the countries official as recognised by the United Nations.

-Ryan

Wikipedia does not go by what the UN or anyone else "officially recognise", we go only by what WP:COMMONNAME and WP:NAMECHANGES say, and use whatever name is in common use in English language media and sources, which means that we do not change established names until after common usage has changed, which usually takes several years (changing Bombay to Mumbai took ten years...), and in many cases never happen (the English language uses many names that are very different from what the name in the local language is, such as Germany and not Deutschland, Moscow and not the direct transliteration Moskva, Copenhagen and not København, and so on). So stop. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 13:32, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I apologise, I didn't realise that it was done via common name and not official name. Now that I know this information I will stop.

-Ryan

July 2018[edit]

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