User talk:Riwnodennyk
Hello, Riwnodennyk! Welcome to Wikivoyage.
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Naming conventions, when not to plunge forward
[edit]Hello, Riwnodennyk. I join in welcoming you. However, I also want to mention that there is a flip side of this site's plunge forward recommendations - when not to plunge forward. Please read Wikivoyage:Naming conventions. This is an English-language guidebook. We use the most common English-language spellings, regardless of what spelling is official locally in a country. And I've never seen any spelling other than Odessa. So please use that spelling. I am going to move the article back. If you think you have a case to argue that the spelling with one S is used more often in English, start a thread at Talk:Odessa and see if you can convince a consensus. I don't think you'll be able to, but you're welcome to try, and if you do, then and only then will we change the name we use.
While I'm at it, it's because of the chaos after the Russian Revolution that Ukraine was able to briefly assert its independence. The explanation is clear: Russia was distracted, so it couldn't assert its domination during those years. Changing that to "the chaos after the Ukrainian Revolution" makes the passage pretty nonsensical.
Thanks, and all the best,