[WikiEN-l] cleaning up the Kosovo geographic names

[Fred Bauder]

> Here is another prime example of how the user is misled when using the
> english wikipedia.
> lets say you are looking for Maja Pançiq, you wont find the article,
> because someone commented out the name in the article
> Pan%C4%8Di%C4%87%27s_Peak. Just because albanian is not an official
> language in central serbia, they say. First of all, there are many
> albanians living in that area, and second of all, the point is listed
> as a border point between Kosovo and Serbia in the GNS database. We
> cannot have a dysfunctional wikipedia, we need to contain both names
> and make it possible to navigate.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%C4%8Di%C4%87%27s_Peak
> thanks,
> mike
>

You are, of course, correct, assuming the mountain has a commonly used
name in the Albanian language, whether it is on the border or not.

Fred Bauder