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According to [[Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian]], we should spell his name ''Pyotr Ilyich Chaykovsky'' (Ilyich with a ''y'', right? It's sounded as a consonant after all), without the useless ''t'' at the beginning of the surname, and with ''i'' representing only the [[close front unrounded vowel]] (or the [[close central unrounded vowel]], when immediately following the hard {{IPA|/r/}}), rather than both that and a postvocalic [[palatal approximant]].
English spelling is a pile of illogical and unnecessary rules and we don't have to add to it by using fifty different romanizations just because they're the most common spelling in the English literature. In Russia certainly, people stick to one romanization in any given context (an encyclopedia is "one context", no?) and I don't think that they have any emotional reaction to their name being transliterated differently. English readers, on the other hand, might react to ''Chaykovsky'' with "oh my god, you can't spell!", which is not only not true (the surname is spelled Чайковский in Russian, in a different alphabet altogether) but not our problem anyway. We should treat our readers as adults, not as children who need to be catered to to that extent. People accusing others of not being able to spell should know that this isn't an English word and that there are multiple ways of transcribing Russian names. Plus, [[Chaykovsky, Perm Krai]] is spelled "Chaykovsky" and the discrepancy is ''infuriating'' to me. It's
I'm not advocating for using any particular romanization (though [[WP:RUS]] is more than fine in my opinion) but for consistency, also in the case of other languages that aren't written in the Latin alphabet. The current situation is ridiculous, especially given the fact how easy it is to create a redirect.
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