Talk:Viy (story)

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British spellings

An anon editor made several modifications to change to British spellings, which I reverted. WP:MOS states with regard to national varieties of English: When an article has evolved sufficiently for it to be clear which variety it employs, the whole article should continue to conform to that variety, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. Gr8white (talk) 18:00, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Malorussian"

This term, from Viy / Folkloric Sources / The Witch, means 'Little Russian', to which it also disambiguates, and that page itself says, "Today, the term is anachronistic, and many Ukrainians regard its usage as offensive." I think we should change it. Comments? Scutigera (talk) 15:38, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agree in principle, but in the text of Viy itself, I believe that's the term he was using to describe Ukraine. There might be an argument for using it on those grounds. However, since it is considered pretty offensive and gauche, I suggest we switch the page's text to Ukraine and then make it a footnote that Gogol refers to Ukraine by this term. Mccartneyac (talk) 13:12, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]