Talk:National Company for Rail Transport

[[:National Company for Rail Transport]] → {{no redirect|SNTF}} – It’s the [[wp:commonname|common name]] and significantly more [[wp:recognisable|recognisable]]. [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=SNTF%2C+National+company+for+rail+transport&year_start=1940&year_end=2022&case_insensitive=true&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Ngrams] can’t even find {{tq|National company for rail transport}} but finds lots of appearances of SNTF; now, some of the matches aren’t for the railway company, but there are at least 90 such results on [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22SNTF%22+%22Algeria%22&start=90 Google Books], vs [https://www.google.com/search?udm=36&q=%22national+company+for+rail+transport%22 6] for {{tq|National company for rail transport}} (some of which also include SNTF). SNTF is currently a redirect here so is presumptively the [[WP:primary topic|primary topic]]. SNTF is indeed [[WP:EN|not in English]], but the {{tq|native version is more common in English-language usage}} (well it’s not really the native name but let’s ignore that infelicity); cf. [[SNCF]]. On Google Scholar, there are four [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22National+Company+for+Rail+Transport%22&oq=%22 results] for {{tq|National company for rail transport}}, but [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22SNTF%22+%22Algeria%22+%28%22train%22+OR+%22railway%22%29&btnG= over 300] for {{tq|SNTF}} combined with {{tq|Algeria}} and {{tq|train}} or {{tq|railway}} (most though not all in English). [[User:Docentation|Docentation]] ([[User talk:Docentation|talk]]) 22:52, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

[[:National Company for Rail Transport]] → {{no redirect|SNTF}} – It’s the [[wp:commonname|common name]] and significantly more [[wp:recognisable|recognisable]]. [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=SNTF%2C+National+company+for+rail+transport&year_start=1940&year_end=2022&case_insensitive=true&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Ngrams] can’t even find {{tq|National company for rail transport}} but finds lots of appearances of SNTF; now, some of the matches aren’t for the railway company, but there are at least 90 such results on [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22SNTF%22+%22Algeria%22&start=90 Google Books], vs [https://www.google.com/search?udm=36&q=%22national+company+for+rail+transport%22 6] for {{tq|National company for rail transport}} (some of which also include SNTF). SNTF is currently a redirect here so is presumptively the [[WP:primary topic|primary topic]]. SNTF is indeed [[WP:EN|not in English]], but the {{tq|native version is more common in English-language usage}} (well it’s not really the native name but let’s ignore that infelicity); cf. [[SNCF]]. On Google Scholar, there are four [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22National+Company+for+Rail+Transport%22&oq=%22 results] for {{tq|National company for rail transport}}, but [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22SNTF%22+%22Algeria%22+%28%22train%22+OR+%22railway%22%29&btnG= over 300] for {{tq|SNTF}} combined with {{tq|Algeria}} and {{tq|train}} or {{tq|railway}} (most though not all in English). [[User:Docentation|Docentation]] ([[User talk:Docentation|talk]]) 22:52, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

*'''Support'''. Nobody uses the translated name (which is not even correctly translated). We don't translate foreign titles for the sake of it. -- [[User:Necrothesp|Necrothesp]] ([[User talk:Necrothesp|talk]]) 11:24, 20 April 2026 (UTC)