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:"Leipäsuo" and such is not a "romanization". It's the original Karelian/Finnish spelling. But titles of articles about places in Russia, per [[WP:NCGEO#Russia|guidelines]], either use conventional English names (for major places like Moscow that actually have one), or are romanized from the Russian spelling. Hence "Leypyasuo". Same with Khelyulya, Yanisyarvi, Vyartsilya, etc. etc. etc. Cheers,—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]] • ([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); <span class="nowrap">August 31, 2023</span>; 01:36 (UTC) 01:36, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
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Please let me know if the 'ping' I sent you worked. It's on Estland/Livland, from over a decade ago. [[Special:Contributions/2001:1C02:1990:A900:FCB5:49EC:22CF:E773|2001:1C02:1990:A900:FCB5:49EC:22CF:E773]] ([[User talk:2001:1C02:1990:A900:FCB5:49EC:22CF:E773|talk]]) 17:41, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
:In worked, yes. I'm not sure what you expect me to say though. Livland/Livonia variants are both used in English; I myself don't really have a preference and am happy to abide by whatever consensus if/when one arises. "Governorate", on the other hand, is used because we, as an encyclopedia, cover all sorts of Russian Empire's administrative divisions, and it helps to have structure, even if sometimes that leads to a less common variant being used (but let's be honest—"less common" in this case means a usage difference between two already obscure variants anyway!). The Empire had "governorates" (губернии) and "provinces" (провинции) and "oblasts" (области; often translated as "provinces"), and it can all be very confusing to an uninitiated reader as it is. Just try writing an overview article about the divisions of the Empire across its long history without standardizing the terminology and see how that goes!. Starting to cherrypick governorates which happen to be better known as "provinces" and moving the articles around is just going to create more havoc for only a marginal benefit. Furthermore, there is nothing, and I mean ''nothing'' preventing us from mentioning in the article's lede and/or body that a particular "governorate" is also being referred to as "province" in literature; in fact, that's encouraged.—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]] • ([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); <span class="nowrap">August 31, 2023</span>; 18:14 (UTC) 18:14, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
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