There is a "official name" property for this purpose in Wikidata. Date qualifiers gives the information on when the name was the official one.
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Hoi, So how do I indicate that up to a particular date Jakarta was called Batavia ? Muhammed Ali was called Cassius Clay ? There is no discussion about it. All there is an (potentially perceived) inability to use appropriate labels at will.
Labels are not simple. Thanks, Gerard
On 6 March 2014 17:07, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de wrote:
Am 06.03.2014 16:27, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi, I hope this will be revisited. Many items change there name and
dependent on a
date they or it are called differently.
If the name is something that is changed, debated, or otherwise a subject of discussion, create a statement using an appropriate property. The point of having labels is precisely that they are simple.
-- daniel
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