Thread:Cukanovoleg/@comment-9813371-20161204125221/@comment-1468708-20161206142210

1) I understand that in the Russian language thousand separators are not required. However, as I have previously stated, the admins believe that, as this is an English wiki, all users should try and follow standard English conventions when creating articles. That includes using commas to separate thousands, even when referring to international contestants. Otherwise, we'd have to deal with three problems:

1. Discussing contestants and their winnings from different countries (for example, Top Prize Winners)

2. Deciding which system to use when people from a certain country (or even their own show) use or have used two or more conflicting systems (for example, I'm aware that the Russian WWTBAM have used both spaces and commas to separate thousands)

3. Dealing with potential confusion due to the use of certain separators that have different meanings in different countries (for example, is 10.000 ten thousand or ten with three decimal places?). Even though a reader may potentially determine the intended meaning of some separators through context, we would like it if we could avoid these situations.

Furthermore, most of Wikipedia's articles on international versions follow the comma as thousand separator guideline, even when the country uses different separators.

2) I understand that you were using a category that we didn't really look at until it was too late. However, the category name "Celebrity contestants from Somecountry" was already being used and "Celebrity contestant" is a generic title, so it does not require to be capitalised unless it is at the beginning of a sentence. Therefore, we suggest you use Category:Celebrity contestants from Russia from now on.

In both cases, you will not need to worry about past articles. They will be fixed soon.