On 29/12/06, Patrick-Emil Zörner paddyez@yahoo.de wrote:
I am quite appalled about how things have a nasty tendency to a nasty outcome on commons. München is being moved to Munich, Praha is moved to Prague,... and all on a specious kind of based argumentation. I know how the cities are called. I have seen the traffic signs! The cities are actually called München, Praha,...
I read e.g. that [München, Germany] would look silly. Yes it does. That is why it should have been [München, Deutschland] in the first place with the redirect being [Munich, Germany] or even a disambiguation on [Munich] as it already is on the en-WP. What was clear to many people in the beginnig of commons now gets overthrown and people keenly start their bots.
Moreover I do not mind having [東京] as log as there is a redirect on [Tokyo], [Tokio] etc.
As far as I remember commons was planed for all projects to coexist but not to assimilate them until a bad english gets the upper hand.
I am appalled about this and do not know if I carry on in this pile of shards.
disappointed greetings
paddy
Was there a concensus on this or are individuals doing it off their own back? If it is the latter, I suggest we begin moving the article's back to their rightful names.