A fact from Dervendjis appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 December 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the DerbendcisOttoman constabulary units were so poorly motivated that the Ottomans had to hire mercenaries to ensure their loyalty?
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It is jarring that the article is titled 'dervendji' but speaks exclusively of derbentcis. As is clear from a simple search in Google Books, 'dervendji' is an old Anglicisation of the term, common in the 19th century but hardly recognisable as an established borrowing from Turkish in its own right, and which has fallen out of fashion since and is not used in present-day literature of the subject, i.e. among Ottomanists writing in English. Therefore, unless a justification of the present title, or even better a discussion of the term's history in English language can be provided, this article should rather be titled "Derbentci" in line with the Latin orthography of modern-day Turkish.
VampaVampa (talk) 01:52, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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